The invisible enemy that no one in the chess community is talking about.
There’s an invisible enemy that is affecting most chess players.
I call it “shallow chess.”
The most common pattern that is killing your chances to make significant progress is that when you finish a game, you go for the next, the next, and the next match.
Between games, you barely spend 3 minutes analyzing that game with the computer and then go for the next.
Without reflecting on your mistakes
Without understanding the reason why you lost
Or even worse, you won the game and didn’t care about your performance.
Shallow practice in chess is pursuing the next stimulus. How can you tell you fell into this pattern?
You barely play to increase your rating, but you play for hours on this platform.
But shallow practice is not only playing. You can also have similar experiences solving puzzles.
If you have a solid puzzle rating but cannot spot tactics in your games, you are just good at solving puzzles and nothing else.
Break this pattern today. It’s easy to fall into autopilot mode and play many games without learning anything.
I’ts easy to do puzzle rush sessions for fun without realizing that you are training your mind to shallow thinking.
Shallow practice leads to shallow thinking, which leads you to bad results.
Online platforms are great tools. However, you must be careful and learn to take the most out of them. In my free webinar, “5 shifts yu need to make to reach a 2000 rating,” I will discuss this topic.
Stay tuned. I will upload the webinar very soon.
See you on the winning side.
-Coach Diego.
