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Going down in Flames no.1
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Thanks! and yess Silman is a awesome author!!
First game move 1 for black Ke6 does get a question mark because it gives white counter play. Ke7 for black looks better. I did not give Ke6? because it would be off topic.
Some disagreements: after 1.Rh1 Rb6 2.b3, it is now a mistake to mindlessly attack the white pawns and therefore allow them to advance. Now, Black needs not to move his rook and allow white to raid his 7th rank. He can simply move his K up, Ke6-d5, and then push the queenside, since Black's rook can singlehandedly defend all of his weaknesses.
That was a example. I aslo said that they were rough moves.
also not aslo
The point is that I made a mistake and I was trying to stress a point.
Yes this is a interesting topic. I believe that many people "go down in flames" because of two reasons.
Reason 1.Move to fast
Reason 2.Not paying atention
How do we avoid these things? It is simple. They are both psychological and are easy to fix. Yet they take down strong players. International Master have this problem. Now I know many of you laughed at this and many IMs will say "He is wrong the little lier!" but I am indeed correct. IM Jeremy Silman talks about simaler things in his excelent book How to Reassess your chess 4th edition. He even says that during a tourn when he came back to the board he had already decided what to do and made a move. When he looked again he said that he hade moved the wrong piece! In the book he talked about for differant reasons but it got me thinking. Have I had simeler mistakes? I have, for everyone has. I looked over my games and found a good example.
Example no.1
Here is what should have been played instead of Rd1.
So I hope you enjoyed this. The topic will be explored later in Going down in Flames no.2 The point is this: When you play chess play Sslloowwlly. Try not to play bullet because it makes it harder for you to improve. Play slowly and think about your moves. Until next time!