Obsession with queens - Climbing the rating ladder

In all the years that I am playing on-line chess I see several patterns in my games.

• Opponents who want to attack my queen even when they can launch a successful checkmate attack versus my king.
• Opponents who attack my queen at every occasion and continue to go for a perpetual queen attack when they have a better position.
• Opponents who want to attack and win my queen but forget about queen sacrifices and the possible shock effect of that.

This behavior may well go hand in hand with the overall aggressive playing style which appears to come from the popularity of on-line bullet chess, even among beginner chess players.

Conclusion : Play what the chess position on the board is asking from you. And every time you want to attack the opponent's queen ask yourself whether you are driving the opponent queen to a worse or to a better square.

In this game when my opponent was thinking I thought something like : "They might want to attack my queen a bit further by playing a2a3?? but that is a blunder because their king is exposed and the white rook will be lost". Maybe my opponent actually was feeling well about their position because :

1. They won the exchange with the d5d6 pawn push (though I got quite a few pawns in exchange).
2. They were chasing my queen and maybe they were already happy thinking that my queen would be trapped.

And this happy mood perhaps made them forget to mind about the other side of the board where their king did no longer have the usual pawn protection and it's bishop as defender.

Epilogue. A general note about myself : A few days ago I reached 2300 blitz (the round number). That was a bit fortunate because I didn't play rated for a long time which means you can gain more rating faster. Years ago I got over 2300 rating due to the fatigue-versus-fatigue effect of Lichess marathons (That time where I was lucky to win against a GM). But now I'm much older, slower, and unfortunately blunder a lot more lately. I hope that I will push myself to play in rated tournaments again so the rating can go down again to 2100 something because so I can play against lower rated chess players in casual games, which is a good training sometimes as they play different openings, can play surprising moves, which sometimes means more thinking works, and can lead to interesting losses for myself to learn from. Yes, really!

Thanks for reading.