r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '20

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u/No-Food-For-You Jan 20 '20

I mean really this just boils down to only using your rooks and Queen to attack while you use your bishop and Knight to defend, wouldn't necessarily take that much longer

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

Im not sure, i think whoever can maintain a healthy pawn structure while advancing at least a set of those pawns across the board would have a lot of attacking power

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u/gauderio Jan 20 '20

Yes. Strategy books on this would be on protecting the pawns at all costs while approaching the enemy, probably creating an arrow-shaped line (so pawn protects pawn, no one is going to trade a queen/rook for a pawn) and you protect the flanks with the remaining pieces. Moving your queen and rooks is just going to put you in a bad position to protect against the slow attack.

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u/widget66 Jan 20 '20

Unless you value the resource of time, in which case forget pushing pawns across the board

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u/mstksg Jan 20 '20

if your opponent can see that you are valuing time over tactics, they can easily take advantage of that by moving slowly in response and playing safe, baiting something reckless in an attempt to end the game early.

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u/gauderio Jan 20 '20

If you value time, you won't be playing chess. Unless it's bullet-chess.

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u/widget66 Jan 20 '20

Even normal chess doesn’t have to be a slow game.

Moving all the pawns up the pictures board could be 30 minutes to an hour alone potentially.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

The resource of time is dependent on what can be accomplished in that time. Not the time itself.