Crossgeposted von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/360558
So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..
It's a strategy, as you mention it is successful if the opponent doesn't know how to stop it properly.
But it's also very risky, I see often people burning early their queen or getting checkmated pretty quickly.