Not necessarily. It's wise to create a flight square for your castled king. Moving the pawn two spaces is less common but not always wrong, for example it might be controlling an important hopping square for the enemy knight, or looking to weaken the pawn structure of the opponent. Not an expert, just a guy that likes chess and watches chess videos.
Alright, I think from hearing this I am a more experienced player than you. No offense, maybe I'm wrong.
Moving one of your King's castle pawns is done more often than not. It's quite a common move to see across a large amount of professional chess games. It protects against a smothered rate but also, a back-rank mate. It gives your King an option of an escape square somewhere down the line.
Not every single move in chess always comes with an immediate threat. There is such a thing as a "waiting move." There are instances in a chess game where it's advantageous to delay making decisions and bait your opponent to do so first.
Moving the pawn two squares is less common, and could've been a mistake. However, there are instances where I've seen top players make this move. Usually it's to protect an important square, or to make an aggressive pawn push. I just recently watched a Magnus Carlson game where he made a very similar attack, pushing his H pawn to damage the enemies pawn structure.
Lol, moving your A or H pawn is not a blunder. Creating a flight square for your king has been done by the top players in the game, I've been watching chess videos since like 2008. I've seen Bobby Fischer, Magnus Carlson, Caruana, all of these players moving their A or H pawn to create a flight square for the king. The fact that you're even debating this is really weird to me. I am not a great player by any means, but I enjoy watching chess and playing it from time to time. Flight squares happen ALL the time. Moving it two squares is less common but I've seen that plenty of times. I am not really sure what to say beyond that, unless you're saying that you yourself are a grandmaster. If that's true I bow down to you, otherwise I think you're wrong.
Not necessarily. It's wise to create a flight square for your castled king. Moving the pawn two spaces is less common but not always wrong, for example it might be controlling an important hopping square for the enemy knight, or looking to weaken the pawn structure of the opponent. Not an expert, just a guy that likes chess and watches chess videos.
Alright, I think from hearing this I am a more experienced player than you. No offense, maybe I'm wrong.
Moving one of your King's castle pawns is done more often than not. It's quite a common move to see across a large amount of professional chess games. It protects against a smothered rate but also, a back-rank mate. It gives your King an option of an escape square somewhere down the line.
Not every single move in chess always comes with an immediate threat. There is such a thing as a "waiting move." There are instances in a chess game where it's advantageous to delay making decisions and bait your opponent to do so first.
Moving the pawn two squares is less common, and could've been a mistake. However, there are instances where I've seen top players make this move. Usually it's to protect an important square, or to make an aggressive pawn push. I just recently watched a Magnus Carlson game where he made a very similar attack, pushing his H pawn to damage the enemies pawn structure.
Lol, moving your A or H pawn is not a blunder. Creating a flight square for your king has been done by the top players in the game, I've been watching chess videos since like 2008. I've seen Bobby Fischer, Magnus Carlson, Caruana, all of these players moving their A or H pawn to create a flight square for the king. The fact that you're even debating this is really weird to me. I am not a great player by any means, but I enjoy watching chess and playing it from time to time. Flight squares happen ALL the time. Moving it two squares is less common but I've seen that plenty of times. I am not really sure what to say beyond that, unless you're saying that you yourself are a grandmaster. If that's true I bow down to you, otherwise I think you're wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvITjkjYv4
Here's a game in which Bobby Fischer makes a flight square for his king around the 2:11 mark. Bobby Fischer was a worse player than you?