Patience and Vision

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kylesallen
How does one teach oneself to be patient? I find that my biggest issue right now is not giving myself enough time to see the board properly. Most losses aren’t due to technical misunderstanding, but due to not giving myself enough time to see the board properly.

Other posts recommend puzzles for improving overall board vision and I find that very helpful. I notice that if I just sit there long enough I’ll always finally see it.
Shadowkiller7

Yeah i got that at the beginning too

TwirlingClarel

One thing that helped me was to focus on a limited repertoire - one opening as white and two defenses as black, one against e4 and another against d4. That helped me study a few lines more closely, and that meant understanding better where each piece was naturally developed and what were a few tactical themes in the middlegame. I'd definitely recommend it. It doesn't work all the time: if you play e4, you're gonna run into e5, c5, c6, etc., so you'd need a cursory knowledge of those, too. But having a smaller opening repertoire helped me feel more used to certain positions, and more used to identifying a mistake when it happened.

I'm not a chess specialist, but I think practicing with the bot on chess.com is also a good way to train in a more controlled space. The good thing is that you can also add a bunch of features that are friendly to a training regimen, like the chance to go back a move or an analysis of your moves. I found the last one really helpful, you're never going to make all the best moves, but it's useful to check out a mistake or a blunder on the analysis machine and back a few moves to see where you went wrong.

Lastly, one thing that has helped me was checking out some lectures and videos from titled players on twitter. I particularly like Daniel Naroditsky's speedruns, which I found very informative.