Material Advantage or Positional Advantage in Chess?

Question

What is better of the two and what are the advantages and disadvantages of one over the other?

Answer 1

In chosing between the two, I prefer material, because you can eventually get the positional advantage back.

Answer 2

That's too general of a question, they are both important.

Answer 3

Material Advantage : in this advantage you have a better chance of beating them.

Positional Advantage : in this advantage you have a quicker chance of beating them.

Answer 4

Both are important.  Often a positional advantage can be used to force a material advantage.

In practice either type of advantage can be enough to force a win.

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Answer 5

If you have a bad position, all the material in the world can't save you.

I say positional is better.

But both, of course, is the way to win.

Answer 6

Neither is "better", they are just different imbalances that can exist on the board.  YOu might have an extra pawn, but be totally lost positionally.  Or you might have a positional advantage in some way, but be down too much material.