You should consider ALL of your opponent’s possible moves, not just the few that you hope they might play.
I have a huge weakness, need help improving
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Mar 13, 2025
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That’s called tunnel vision.
You should consider ALL of your opponent’s possible moves, not just the few that you hope they might play.
You should consider ALL of your opponent’s possible moves, not just the few that you hope they might play.
SacrifycedStoat wrote:
That’s called tunnel vision.
You should consider ALL of your opponent’s possible moves, not just the few that you hope they might play.
You should consider ALL of your opponent’s possible moves, not just the few that you hope they might play.
You worded it perfectly. Tunnel vision is exactly my greatest weakness. Usually a beginner screws up by playing hope chess and relying quick single moves without thinking. But I’m over here thinking for 10 minutes straight and after I move, my opponent capture my hanging rook with his bishop which that “I didn’t see”.
Instead of just solving “winning” puzzles, try puzzles that make you find the opponent’s threats.
I’ve watched some beginner videos on common mistakes and they don’t really address the problem I’m having. I have a tendency to deeply calculate a move for a particular piece at the expense of everything else. For example, I’ll come up with a brilliant plan where I calculated 8 moves deep for my queen and the opponent’s nearby pieces…and instead what ends up happening is I hang a rook or something all because I was too hyper fixated on the queen.
I don’t rush my moves at all, I think about what my opponent will do next, and try to avoid making mindless trades…yet it’s always a really simple move that I didn’t look at when I lose.