When winning play safe and don't be smartass • page 1/1 • Game analysis • lichess.org

I played a standard game here , the thing is I was completely winning before the bold (u can call it stupid also ) move 20.Ng5 ??, I thought I had an unstoppable mating attack before my opponent played 21..g4 ! the only move not only saves black but gives him a slight advantage. I won the game eventually when my opponent blunder his bishop, after this game I learned something important , that when you are completly winning a game , just continue to play safe and don't give ur opponent a chance of possibility that can turn the table on you .

http://en.lichess.org/1hhL85tq#52

I played a standard game here , the thing is I was completely winning before the bold (u can call it stupid also ) move 20.Ng5 ??, I thought I had an unstoppable mating attack before my opponent played 21..g4 ! the only move not only saves black but gives him a slight advantage. I won the game eventually when my opponent blunder his bishop, after this game I learned something important , that when you are completly winning a game , just continue to play safe and don't give ur opponent a chance of possibility that can turn the table on you . http://en.lichess.org/1hhL85tq#52

alleey

#2

IMHO, that's a good lesson to keep in mind when playing a high-stakes game but here on lichess you can always strive for the killer punch even at the cost of losing games in the process.

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#3

yes ,I thought about this when writing the topic , but I think that even if it's just a game on the internet (esp. using anonymous name !) with someone u dont' know, and no one on earth do care about it, despite that, I believe that one should train himself as if he playing an actual opponent live (esp. in a standard game ) to train the mind psychologically and should not take it easily and play seriously .

AceMove3

#4

yeah but you will find that chess will become boring or you feel tired or less in time so from time to time you need to trow a move like that, specially in bullet/blitz for couple of reasons:

Confusing ur enemy
For fun mostly
Making game more interesting with new unseen position, opportunely to find new tactics , attacks...
You will see where your enemy blunders or not and take a note for future games.

yeah but you will find that chess will become boring or you feel tired or less in time so from time to time you need to trow a move like that, specially in bullet/blitz for couple of reasons: 1. Confusing ur enemy 2. For fun mostly 3. Making game more interesting with new unseen position, opportunely to find new tactics , attacks... 4. You will see where your enemy blunders or not and take a note for future games.

static_shadow

#5

Yeah. While playing it safe is definitely a good lesson to learn, I had a "friend" who would constantly berate me for my "blunders" when I had a 2 or 3 month stint of trying out a lot of aggressive sacrifice tactics. I tried to explain to him the reason I was doing it was to get a lot of positions on the board so I could recognize when such tactics worked and when such tactics were easily thwarted and just losing a piece for a pawn...that and I was wanting to become a more aggressive player. He just kept insisting that if I was ever going to get better, I had to stop doing that and just play good moves.

Sometimes when you see something interesting, and the game isn't serious, you just have to try it and see if it works. Sometimes if a position is dull and drawish, you just have to break it open with something that is probably unsound in order to get a game that's enjoyable. If playing the position is comfortable for your opponent, then I think sometimes it's necessary to be bold and cause him/her some pressure, even if it inevitably isn't the "right" thing to do. Also, fun fact, while the blunder did give a slight advantage, it was never really losing...at best it gave away a safe and slow winning position for an even slower draw if your opponent played accurately. If he didn't play accurately, you could have gotten quite a quick win. I think those are the sort of stakes that are worth taking a risk on for the experience.

Yeah. While playing it safe is definitely a good lesson to learn, I had a "friend" who would constantly berate me for my "blunders" when I had a 2 or 3 month stint of trying out a lot of aggressive sacrifice tactics. I tried to explain to him the reason I was doing it was to get a lot of positions on the board so I could recognize when such tactics worked and when such tactics were easily thwarted and just losing a piece for a pawn...that and I was wanting to become a more aggressive player. He just kept insisting that if I was ever going to get better, I had to stop doing that and just play good moves. Sometimes when you see something interesting, and the game isn't serious, you just have to try it and see if it works. Sometimes if a position is dull and drawish, you just have to break it open with something that is probably unsound in order to get a game that's enjoyable. If playing the position is comfortable for your opponent, then I think sometimes it's necessary to be bold and cause him/her some pressure, even if it inevitably isn't the "right" thing to do. Also, fun fact, while the blunder did give a slight advantage, it was never really losing...at best it gave away a safe and slow winning position for an even slower draw if your opponent played accurately. If he didn't play accurately, you could have gotten quite a quick win. I think those are the sort of stakes that are worth taking a risk on for the experience.