How do you defend?

@ThunderClap said in #9:

THIS IS the DIFFERENCE , Many players ONLY know attack & are simpleminded . THINKING about DEFENCE alone shows a significent step FORWARD , Justuce in Chess has to do with ATTACK & DEFENCE . There are two more Chess Books released recently on this subject that you can finf either at uscf sales or new in chess sales i believe . An older work was The Art Of Defense In Chess By Andy Soltis ... maybe start there & challenge the assumptions made but keep an Open Mind' . You are on the right track to learn how to Defend Attack Play Endings Middlegames etc etc @gilligan841 There should always be a Justification to Attack & if there isn't it's your job to win
Totally agree. I'd like to add that having a pre-defensive mindset is the key step to a pro-player.

My technique is to be better than you.

Seriously, defending is attacking. If you swarm the enemy pieces, he will die before you do.

@ThunderClap said in #9:
Art Of Defense In Chess By Andy Soltis ... Noted.

@gilligan841 said in #1:

Do you use your own technique and apply it in the seat of your opponent or what?

To be more precise, I want to implement a routine that will help me to avoid my multiple unavoidable blunders. Lately, I blundered 2 times my Queen, couldn't believe it and i decided that enough is enough.

I have a routine when comes the time to attack; checks, hanging pieces, etc.; along with a white and a black openings.

I wonder if I should apply this routine, hecks, hanging pieces, etc., to defend or if there is a better way to deal with that.

Searching on the Internet, I think I have found what I was looking for; a kind of shortcut to reduce the time to search for my blunders.

I must be lazy. So, taking time to search for my blunders was getting somehow on my nerves. On YouTube, GM Igor Smirnov tells to have a look at what has changed in the position since the last move (instead of scanning the whole board again and again); that is unconsciously the shortcut I was looking for.

Now, applying the new search method for checks, hanging pieces, attacks, etc. seems unavoidable and I must concentrate on that at high priority if I want to improve my gaming; searching for that after my opponent played his move and before I do mine.

I am happy, I can keep on trying to improve; I hope this post might help someone else as well.

@DuBiOuSikUn said in #11:

Totally agree. I'd like to add that having a pre-defensive mindset is the key step to a pro-player.
some people like me does not even know how to attack properly..let alone defense LOL

@loo7841 said in #16:

some people like me does not even know how to attack properly..let alone defense LOL

Same problem here. My next topic; how do you attack? :)

1.e4 e5 2.Ke2

@gilligan841 said in #17:

Same problem here. My next topic; how do you attack? :)
Bring all your pieces next to the enemy king and annihilate him, sacrifice if needed to get through.

@WassimBerbar said in #19:

Bring all your pieces next to the enemy king and annihilate him, sacrifice if needed to get through.
easier said than done LOL