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On Sun, 8 Sep 2024, William Hyde wrote:
Altered Beast wrote:
I've discovered another dimension. Underthreat we're all taught to draw
back or take the attacker. I've been playing about five games in a row
where an alternative is to put a threat to one of their pieces of equal
point weighting.
Other things being equal, always prefer counterattack to defense, especially when playing humans.
Other things may not be equal, of course, sometimes you have no choice as the counterattack just loses.
But as a master once told me when commenting on his weaker opponents "I love it when they defend passively".
Haha, this is so true. When ever I have played someone at IM level, they
just love to slowly strangle the too defensive opponents. I don't know if
it goes for all of them, but the one I played surely enjoyed slowly
increasing the squeeze.
And I've seen utterly hopeless counterattacks win, especially when time is short.
William Hyde
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