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Mickdonedee

The Queen Trade Principle:

Trade queens when the resulting position enhances your overall strategic advantages or minimizes your disadvantages. Consider factors such as material balance, king safety, pawn structure, piece activity, and endgame prospects. Avoid reflexive trades, but don't stubbornly resist if the cost of evasion outweighs the benefits of keeping queens on the board. The decision should always serve your broader game strategy and position evaluation.

This principle emphasizes the importance of context-dependent decision-making in chess, encouraging players to assess the full board position.

 

This series of puzzles challenges you to make the correct choice of whether to accept a Queen trade offer based on the evaluation of the position. Stockfish is the arbiter.

 

In this first puzzle, the Black Queen has just captured a White Knight giving it a +1 material advantage. Should White trade queens? If you get the correct answer, tell us why.

 

 

Chessian-Ian

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120176447240?tab=analysis&move=17

Check it and if you can tell me why I got a brilliant because I don't understand the knight making a brilliant move because I just lost it next move

Mickdonedee
Chessian-Ian wrote:

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120176447240?tab=analysis&move=17

Check it and if you can tell me why I got a brilliant because I don't understand the knight making a brilliant move because I just lost it next move

That's right. The Knight sac gave you an opportunity to win material had your next move been Bxc3+, forking the King and Rook. You didn't need to trade Queens after your Knight was captured because that prevented you winning the Rook with your Bishop.

Chessian-Ian

Oh thank you bro... I win because they abandoned the game like right after