...but play to end the game! lol Don't know who came up with it, but it's awesome. Sounds like something Morphy or Tal would say.
I regularly play a 1700 player, who plays only position and doesn't have a clue what a sac is...yes, he's better than me right now, but I suspect that's why he never got better, because he didn't try sac moves or play to end the game. Okay, now let the 1700+ players flame away.
Go Morphy and Tal! Play to end the game!
But sometimes playing for the endgame is the best way to end the game.
@imakitty +100 Yeah, uh sometimes playing for the endgame IS playing to end the game... And blindly sacrificing pieces... rarely works as this painful game shows:
And the 1700 player... perhaps he/she is still improving? If not, I doubt it's because he/she doesn't sacrifice enough pieces :D
Have a nice day!
P.S. I do know how to sacrifice at the right time (sometimes):
And another fun game:
"yes, he's better than me right now, but I suspect that's why he never got better"
Maybe you should wait until you are better than him before you declare why you are better than him.
Never declared I was better. Practice your reading comprehension.
Those weren't sacs, those were suicides.
I'll take Paul Morphy at age 22 against any of you nay sayers.
Nobody seemed to get it.
Are you saying that you should play to win as early as possible, and not just wait for the end game to win? That the end of games can come before endgames, if you look in the right places...like g5? ;)
"Never declared I was better. Practice your reading comprehension.
Those weren't sacs, those were suicides."
So do you make a habit of telling people how to do things they are better than you at? You obviously think you know more about the game than he does. If you know what it takes to get better and he doesn't, seems it's only a matter of time then, no? So make it happen, then tell everyone how it happened.
It's not that a 1400 player could never, ever tell a 1700 player something useful, I just think a 1400 player telling a 1700 player why they are only rated 1700 is quite silly. If you knew the answer to that, you'd be rated higher than 1700, end of story.
The answer is about far more than just sacrificing pieces. If you go into a game looking for opportunities to sacrifice pieces as your strategy, you are going to lose.
Tal was quite good at endgames. He could never have become World Champion without endgame technique.
Morphy usually played opponents much weaker than he was, so he could finish them off quickly.
Say you sacrifice and get a raging attack on the opponent's king which grants you an extra piece.
Now you have to convert that in the endgame ;)
