Chess, Improved By Attacking My Opponents More Often. What it boils down to is either not knowing how to attack for a good future move or just some sort of fear of messing up good “clean” Chess moves. I play a RTS game Halo Wars, same thing in that video game, I play Cutter and usually build up my base defense and it works just like in Chess until it doesn’t. Basically exposing a one sided play style, attacks in Chess stop or slow down attacks from your opponents as long as you are not feeding them pieces/resources.