Got this cool knight triple fork checkmate to hit 400 elo. This came 2 moves after a bishop sacrifice on g6.
This was probably the best game I’ve ever played. I recently got back into chess and I’ve played a bit in the past but I never enjoyed playing and spent most of my chess time doing puzzles or watching opening guides. Ofcourse that meant I never stuck with chess but playing again now I’ve really enjoyed it.
I know I’m bad but I climbed steadily from 250-350, noticed my white games were 50/50 and the rating jump was due to my black games. Not sure if this is common? Anyways it seemed like I was more comfortable as black letting my opponent take initiative and capitalise on their mistakes. I improved with white massively by using the London and jumped up to 400 elo quickly. And when I say I’m using the london all I’m doing is the initial setup and then trying to get my knight to e5 and keeping my light square bishop alive. Other than that I’m playing normal chess. The pawn pyramid makes such a solid defense that has helped me play safe and win a lot, but also if they play too passive I can get aggressive on the king side and get wins like the picture I shared.
When using black I just do basic chess principles with developing pieces and it’s worked for me. Whenever I’ve tried to do the Caro Kahn or kings Indian it never works for me because I don’t know them well and end up thinking about myself to much and hanging pieces. On occasion I do the start of the kings Indian, the really safe king side setup or whatever it’s called, but that’s only if my opponent starts really passive or pushing some weird pawn.
Idk why I’ve done this really long post 😅