ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
I'm not noticing too much Attention Deficit in these posts...
What?
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Apr 20, 2019
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You haven't played a single game on your account. Play a few games to get an assessment of your strength.Focus on studying tactics ,master games and basic endgames.
I have ASD and I don't think it detriments my Chess. The only thing which may be a factor is difficulties filtering out background noise. I was talking medication previously which however significantly impaired my ability to focus and calculate.
Apr 21, 2019
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I don't mean to put you down but how old are you? You sound like you are too young to know about life to be writing about how to improve it with a specific method such as chess.
Aerig wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
I'm not noticing too much Attention Deficit in these posts...
I lol'd . It's not as if it took me 5 minutes to write that. I've actually written it over the course of a couple of days, reading and re-writing.
@blueemu - Yes, in this puzzle the rook is indeed on a2, my bad. Thanks for the analysis. I guess this does show why 3. Rcc2 is better than 3. Rac2.
@Trollhunter666 - Don't you run into trouble like having difficulty adapting your own plans to your opponent? As mentioned before by blueemu, it's probably lack of tactical awareness as well, but I find that every single move causes (at least in my mind) a completely new situation, which makes it hard to think ahead and think what the opponent might play.
@Drawgood - I'm genuinely curious what gives you that idea! I'm 37 years old and I've already been through some stuff, about which I won't go into detail here .
That is just normal chess development that everyone has to deal with. No I dont have a problem adapting my plans to my opponent because that is just normal move selection that anyone in chess has to learn. If you already know that every move causes a new situation you are already on the right lines. It is not hard to think ahead once you understand the concept of forcing moves. So this has nothing to do with ASD but I think certainly being distracted is a feature of ASD. I get around that by listening to the same music through headphones or by playing daily. OTB is another thing...
Weaker players tend to focus way too much attention on the opening, when it's usually the other aspects of the game that are causing their problems.
It sounds to me (from what little you've said) that lack of tactical alertness is causing you problems, not lack of opening knowledge. Focus most of your effort on tactics.
Openings are best approached from the opposite direction... study endgames first, then middle-games, and openings last of all. The reason for this is that you can't recognize a middle-game plan that leads to a won endgame unless you know what a won endgame looks like; and you can't recognize an opening line that gives you a favorable middle-game unless you know what a favorable middle-game looks like.