Defending scholars mate
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Hi, I am new to chess, sometimes I have been able to defend this move and win and other times like yesterday I was just blown away in about two mins. I will try and post the game to show you guys. When I block the queen from getting my king taken, they guy just went nuts taking all my pieces. Can someone please show me what to do next time so this doesn’t happen again. Thanks very much. Ok I am using my iPhone and don’t know how to post the game I apologize. It was like my third last game against a guy from Canada that has a little Buddha for his profile pic and his rating was in the 900s. Sorry
Probably this game?
In general, one good opening rule is "knights before bishops", so consider Nf3 before moving the bishop out.
In specific, black's 1st move is known as the french defense. consider a bit of research as to standard second turn responses to it. I'm not saying that you need to go super deep in your opening repertoire, but knowing a few early moves to most of the common responses to your 1. e4 is probably time well spent.
And above all- analyze your games, especially ones like this. Look at the moves carefully to see where you went wrong and what your better options were.
Good luck!
Sorry everyone, I will be more careful next time with my names
cottonsock? I am a complete fool because I am still learning? I guess when you started you played better than anyone else and you made no mistakes. your games were masterpieces..
The first step to learning how to become good at chess is learning to defend your pieces. Play some longer games and before each move look for undefended pieces and pawns.
cottonsock wrote:
..... sorry , but only a complete fool would play like that
......just saying.
......just saying.
Why being such a asshole ? He is just learning.
Feb 28, 2018
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FishEyedFools wrote:
oh my god , that was one of the best strategies I've ever seen in my entire life...
Hi Nfld709!
I found the following video quite helpful, personally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yIfHp47Ng0
Hope this helps!
Best of luck,
prof_frink
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1339053
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7790.pdf
"... For beginning players, [Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Nfld709, start the way you intend to continue. That is, experienced players don't go looking for scholars mate & fools mate. They use opening techniques that will set them up for a strong middle game. Go for strength in the centre. Bring Knights out very early. Going for the sensational grabs in the first half dozen moves may help you against weaker players, but if you are hoping and planning to quickly elevating your rating above 1500 get a solid opening repertoire. I don't mean going deep into the opening lines but start knowing a few good and popular openings to about 8 moves deep, and what the users of those openings are hoping to achieve. And get a copy of Chernev's classic Logical Chess - move by move. Make it your bible. Good luck with your chess journey.
And cotton sock - pull your head in.
Mar 21, 2018
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I forget about that scholars mate thing because I always play c5 against e4
Jul 10, 2023
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#16
Okay, so. I'm sick and tired of some kinda b...s trying to scholar's mate me. (Also I used to do it in the beginning, but I'm learning some principal tactics now). So this one of the successful games of mine that destroyed that b...'s scholar's mate. Enjoy.
