I enjoy seeing the queen do large zig zag motions. Or showing off its full potential.
It seems in the middle game, there are several mini games on each quadrant of the board. The position is complex, the center is clogged up and there you see the queen do 2-3 moves traveling great distances, or luckily getting itself into a defensive position at the last second, narrowly threading a needle through closed positions.
1. Getting an opening I like playing.
2. Getting an opening I'm good at playing.
3. Seeing some hard tactic.
4. Having my opponent fall for a tactic.
5. Having more positional advantages.
6. Having more king safety.
7. Having better pawn structure.
8. My opponent having the most horrible pawns you have ever seen.
9. A passed pawn.
10. Protected passed pawns.
11. My opponents king just got lured into the center.
12. I get the color I want to play that game(not always white btw).
13. Material advantage.
14. Posting up my knight on a sweet outpost on like the 5th or 6th rank.
15. Pins that my opponent can't get rid of easily.
16. Winning a game.
17. Not losing vs a higher rated player.
18. Watching my irl rating climb.
19. Winning a tournament(did this last week, wasn't for cash, but it was rated though).
20. My opponent plays f3/f6 in a opening not a sicilian(unless i'm being pawn forked)
21. My opponent doesn't care about development, and spends all the opening waving the queen around.
22. Going to a tournament.
23. Long tournaments.
24. Having the bishop pair in an open position.
25. My opponent having the bishop pair in an closed position.
26. My opponent trying poorer openings to get me out of opening knowledge, that's bad for them since I don't often study lines upon lines of openings, but what to do in certain openings and what are the goals.
27. I have the two knights in a closed position.
28. My opponent has the two knights in a not closed position.
29. Playing chess, obviously.
30. My opponent is in time pressure and I'm not.
31. Time delays/incs.
32. My opponents piece(s) are trapped.
33. My opponent is playing rapidly in the middlegame when not in time pressure and i'm not, though I'm usually not in the middlegame.
34. Getting a win from a drawn position.
35. Getting a draw or sometimes even a win from a losing position.
36. My opponent trying to mate me in a position that clearly doesnt call for it.
37. Me trying to mate my opponent in a position that does call for it.
38. Studying it.
39. I have great center control and my opponent doesn't have good wing control.
40. Locked center and I have good wing control while my opponent doesnt on the other wing.
41. My opponent reacting to threats that aren't there.
42. My opponent not reacting to threats that are.
43. That look in the opponents face when they are losing.
44. Using mental tactics against my opponent.
I could go on, but I have things to do today, so I'll end it here.
if I have nuff time to play with my rook and get a climax in the end of the game.
It makes me happy when i set up a trap and my opponend falls for it.
Always puts a big smile on my face.
I am neither a complete beginner nor a very good chess player, but I really like....
...to set traps for my opponents. I often sacrifice pieces without getting another piece in return just for strategic purposes :)
... I also enjoy all kinds of double attacks like forks, skewers, pins etc.
...most of all I love comebacks, in which I am losing in the beginning and getting back the control of the game bit by bit until I win
Seeing improvement with how I play the game. Not making blunders and mistakes with wins for my ratings to get higher. Playing consistently, so I'm not feeling as if it's a waste of time to learn the game.
