Well, you are never going to completely eliminate blunders.
Has checking for blunders before you make a move at least helped you to reduce the number of blunders?
What To Do When, Despite Using the Blunder Checklist, I'm Still Blundering Every Game
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Jan 24, 2025
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I thought that it had, but over the past several games, I've blundered at least once a game. And last game, I blundered four times.
how to stop blundering...
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Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond…
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Use: Blumenfeld’s Rule-How to Avoid Blunders(https://lichess.org/@/mlatb/blog/blumenfelds-rule-how-to-avoid-blunders/b0rglCog)
LearnForLife0 wrote:
I thought that it had, but over the past several games, I've blundered at least once a game. And last game, I blundered four times.
on average you'll probably blunder at least 3 times per game i would recommend trying to spot your opponents mistakes to its just as much of a blind spot as spotting your own blunders both are important
Mar 17, 2025
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#8
Review your blunders and try to find patterns [ie didn't realize a piece was hanging, missed checkmate, miscalculated, etc]. You'll likely find your errors are not random but targeted.
Using a checklist will not prevent blunders just as using a checklist won't help you solve every puzzle. But they are a great starting point to develop a more rigorous approach to any given position.
Also, how much can be attributed to time [or lack thereof]? I might not blunder but only because the analysis tool characterized it as a mistake where I still got checkmated or dropped my Queen but often it's due to time [not having enough or simply rushing and not being careful].
Mar 18, 2025
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#9
I use to think that blunders disappear after a certain rating but I'm at nearly 1300 and people are still hanging their queens CONSTANTLY, and watching gm streams on YouTube even 1800s blunder all the time apparently so now I'm depressed and am experiencing an existential crisis.
It takes time to stop 1-move blunders. If you keep using the checklist and are focused each game then you will limit blunders.
You are playing 10-minute games. If you want to think more and eliminate more of your mistakes, you have to have and use more time. 10 minutes isn’t really rapid. You need to play 30-0 or 15-10, but it will only matter if you actually play slower and take more time to think and consider your opponents possible moves. I recommend not playing 15-10, because the majority of people on here prefer being underrated, so they can blitz all their moves and use the clock to intimidate, rather than trying to improve their skills.
Mar 18, 2025
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wep08a wrote:
You are playing 10-minute games. If you want to think more and eliminate more of your mistakes, you have to have and use more time. 10 minutes isn’t really rapid. You need to play 30-0 or 15-10, but it will only matter if you actually play slower and take more time to think and consider your opponents possible moves. I recommend not playing 15-10, because the majority of people on here prefer being underrated, so they can blitz all their moves and use the clock to intimidate, rather than trying to improve their skills.
I disagree with this sentiment. It makes sense when you tell beginners to stop playing 5 or 3 minutes, because they don't have enough time to think, but 10 minutes teaches you to manage your time while finding good tactics. It makes for a more interesting game.
15 or 30 minutes to think is fine, but being forced to implement pattern recognition under a lower time constraint (while still giving you enough time to actually think without just making impulsive moves) is better. Even though some games are too complex for 10 minutes and will end up, as you said, in a clock war.
I still blunder very very often, and so do super GMs; there is no way to fully eliminate blunders. Like others in this thread have said, play slower - at least 15+10, but if you can, something like 25+10 or 30+5 or even 60+30 - the slower the better. The most important part is having the discipline to execute your blunder check every single move in every single game. And of course keep at it - eventually your checklist will become subconscious and you'll blunder less often.
Vasily Smyzlov said that if he made 40 good moves he would win a game. Implying that one bad move would lose it. So that is top level chess. You are not going to ever stop blundering. Best you can do is practice tactics and drills without thinking of blunders. Then play games without thinking actively about tactics only blunders. By this I mean, expand your toolset in practice so moves become intuition, then when your intuition says which move to make without active thinking you have time to blunder check, and a broader knowledge to draw upon for each turn.
Just as the title says.