Nice game. Just : “Check your intended move whether it is blunder or not” (I am talking about the queen).
9 rapid game 6 queen blunder...
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ChessSBM wrote:
Nice game. Just : “Check your intended move whether it is blunder or not” (I am talking about the queen).
I am making blunders from time to time, but today that's was a festival of queens blunders..
Usually it is more miscalculating an exchange, or missing taking material.
ChessSBM wrote:
I recommend strongly you take a break one day.
That's what I would have done if chess was something "serious" for me, but I discover the game recently (I started to play against human a few months ago, before it was only puzzle) and as I am over forty, it's fit in the hobby category :-) .
The only thing that matter for me is to have fun. And 7 blunder in one day it was kind of fun.
I think the difference between the puzzle and game rating is due to the limitation of puzzle. You know that you have to look for a situation that resolve in a few moves.
Any way I lost a lot today, but I had a lot of fun and that's the only metric that is important in the end.
I finish the day on a win ( it is 9 pm here ) but with an accuracy of 50%....
https://www.chess.com/game/live/42643861591
Apr 2, 2022
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ThaiViet41 wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
I recommend strongly you take a break one day.
That's what I would have done if chess was something "serious" for me, but I discover the game recently (I started to play against human a few months ago, before it was only puzzle) and as I am over forty, it's fit in the hobby category :-) .
The only thing that matter for me is to have fun. And 7 blunder in one day it was kind of fun.
I think the difference between the puzzle and game rating is due to the limitation of puzzle. You know that you have to look for a situation that resolve in a few moves.
Any way I lost a lot today, but I had a lot of fun and that's the only metric that is important in the end.
I finish the day on a win ( it is 9 pm here ) but with an accuracy of 50%....
Well, I just play chess for gaining rating since I think it is cool (Why? I don’t know. I wasn’t even told to play chess.) I am not sure whether you look to me as an adult or child, but I am actually in middle school. Hoping to get a title while I am still young.
Apr 2, 2022
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Looking back to your game, I think the blunders were hard to find, so I guess don’t mind the 50 accuracy much.
ChessSBM wrote:
ThaiViet41 wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
I recommend strongly you take a break one day.
That's what I would have done if chess was something "serious" for me, but I discover the game recently (I started to play against human a few months ago, before it was only puzzle) and as I am over forty, it's fit in the hobby category :-) .
The only thing that matter for me is to have fun. And 7 blunder in one day it was kind of fun.
I think the difference between the puzzle and game rating is due to the limitation of puzzle. You know that you have to look for a situation that resolve in a few moves.
Any way I lost a lot today, but I had a lot of fun and that's the only metric that is important in the end.
I finish the day on a win ( it is 9 pm here ) but with an accuracy of 50%....
Well, I just play chess for gaining rating since I think it is cool (Why? I don’t know. I wasn’t even told to play chess.) I am not sure whether you look to me as an adult or child, but I am actually in middle school. Hoping to get a title while I am still young.
That's clearly not my situation :-)
I am well establish professionally and have other things people consider cool ( like speaking foreign languages :-) )
I totaly get our angle though, rating would totally be something I would have been interested if still in school.
Alas when I was your age, no chess on the internet.
I learn to play with my grandmother, but I was thinking that you have to focus on chess, to no "miss " anything. Nothing about opening, the phase of game ect.
During the pandemic I bought a 1$ chess based puzzle game for my switch and found it fun, I just look for an app with real chess puzzle, after that I joined this site and did mostly puzzle.
The shocking thing for me was to discover that playing against human was in fact more fun than doing puzzle. I was dead certain that I would be a mostly puzzle user.
I still do a lot of puzzle but I also bought course, look at my game and work with the chessking app.
All the way having more fun than playing video games...
ChessSBM wrote:
Looking back to your game, I think the blunders were hard to find, so I guess don’t mind the 50 accuracy much.
I could have lost the matches at several points :-)
In fact if the adversary had done what I expected him to do at the end (taking my rook with his, I would have lost because I would have in the spirit of the day blunder my queen, having missed that the F1 square where I was planning to deliver check with my queen was cover by the bishop...
But before that game I lost one against a weak player because I missed move a pawn on my phone. I wanted to eat the knight and I moved my pawn one square instead.
Apr 2, 2022
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ThaiViet41 wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
ThaiViet41 wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
I recommend strongly you take a break one day.
That's what I would have done if chess was something "serious" for me, but I discover the game recently (I started to play against human a few months ago, before it was only puzzle) and as I am over forty, it's fit in the hobby category :-) .
The only thing that matter for me is to have fun. And 7 blunder in one day it was kind of fun.
I think the difference between the puzzle and game rating is due to the limitation of puzzle. You know that you have to look for a situation that resolve in a few moves.
Any way I lost a lot today, but I had a lot of fun and that's the only metric that is important in the end.
I finish the day on a win ( it is 9 pm here ) but with an accuracy of 50%....
Well, I just play chess for gaining rating since I think it is cool (Why? I don’t know. I wasn’t even told to play chess.) I am not sure whether you look to me as an adult or child, but I am actually in middle school. Hoping to get a title while I am still young.
That's clearly not my situation :-)
I am well establish professionally and have other things people consider cool ( like speaking foreign languages :-) )
I totaly get our angle though, rating would totally be something I would have been interested if still in school.
Alas when I was your age, no chess on the internet.
I learn to play with my grandmother, but I was thinking that you have to focus on chess, to no "miss " anything. Nothing about opening, the phase of game ect.
During the pandemic I bought a 1$ chess based puzzle game for my switch and found it fun, I just look for an app with real chess puzzle, after that I joined this site and did mostly puzzle.
The shocking thing for me was to discover that playing against human was in fact more fun than doing puzzle. I was dead certain that I would be a mostly puzzle user.
I still do a lot of puzzle but I also bought course, look at my game and work with the chessking app.
All the way having more fun than playing video games...
People (Family, or friends) around me tell me “Let’s play ___ (A video game)”,but I always tell them I want to play chess. They even got confused why I am more to chess than video games. Until now, they say that. I am not that evil, so I play with them sometimes. I also got another reason why I don’t want to play video games (I just wanted to point out that I have another reason since might be unbelievable for someone in my age is more to chess than video games).
Apr 2, 2022
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ThaiViet41 wrote:
ChessSBM wrote:
Looking back to your game, I think the blunders were hard to find, so I guess don’t mind the 50 accuracy much.
I could have lost the matches at several points :-)
In fact if the adversary had done what I expected him to do at the end (taking my rook with his, I would have lost because I would have in the spirit of the day blunder my queen, having missed that the F1 square where I was planning to deliver check with my queen was cover by the bishop...
But before that game I lost one against a weak player because I missed move a pawn on my phone. I wanted to eat the knight and I moved my pawn one square instead.
Just today I was playing against a weak player where I was winning. Until a happy surprising notification appeared saying something like “Device update”, and shutdown my device immediately (I am not sure what exactly happened. ) I am trying to contacted chess.com about whether I can refund my points.
And it seems I broke my "blunder" streak.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/42688141059
This game was good, 90% accuracy :-), most important I had the impression to play solidly when yesterday every game (even my win) had a messy feeling.
For video game, I was playing often when I was in my teen but completely stop at the university, I started to play again in my thirty and discovered that it was kind of boring.
Then a few years later I discover VR and GDC ( this video is one of the funniest talked I ever saw, look like it is taken from "the office"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9WMNuyjm4w )
I am still not playing much but the subject of video game is so interesting that I am following what happen in the field.
So usually I bough game that I do not play, or just to try them and check the concept.
Sometimes we just don't have the level of concentration we normally do on a given day. That doesn't mean we don't want to be playing, and as long as we are learning from our mistakes this can still be time well spent. If you are making big blunders though then that is a sure sign you aren't giving yourself enough time. I'm not a fan of 5 min and under games, a lot of people like them, I enjoy the thinking part of the game though and need enough time to think and never want to be forced to move so fast that I'm making all sorts of blunders where I would have not done so had I had enough time to evaluate the position. Maybe slow it down when you get into ruts like this or if dropping queens is happening more often than you like 
kingcobra7777 wrote:
Sometimes we just don't have the level of concentration we normally do on a given day. That doesn't mean we don't want to be playing, and as long as we are learning from our mistakes this can still be time well spent. If you are making big blunders though then that is a sure sign you aren't giving yourself enough time. I'm not a fan of 5 min and under games, a lot of people like them, I enjoy the thinking part of the game though and need enough time to think and never want to be forced to move so fast that I'm making all sorts of blunders where I would have not done so had I had enough time to evaluate the position. Maybe slow it down when you get into ruts like this or if dropping queens is happening more often than you like
Yes not a big fan of Blitz or bullet either.
You have to know your opening quite well for those and not much time thinking.
10 minutes is a good balance for me, it is short enough to do a game when I have free time, but long enough not to be stressed for time ( but aimchess tell me that my time management skill is my lowest ).
Even like this I am prone to blunder, especially with bishop, when I make a blunder very often is missing the line of action of my adversary's bishop.
Well my plan for this Sunday is set, I will try to learn how to really use Fritz17 and chessbase :-) .
The softwares are really NOT user intuitive at all, and as you have such good tool on this site to start with, I never invested time to learn them.
Today was not my day for playing
I played nine games, lost six, win 6 and manage to blunder my queen in six matches, including the last two that I won.
The last one broke me, taking my opponent queen with a knight triple fork (king, queen, rook) then blundering it to a rook....
Ihttps://www.chess.com/game/live/42631235231
This week I almost did not play but just did puzzle here and with the chess app. Puzzle might have a tendency to develop a tunnel vision when you are doing to much of them. You know that there is one solution in a few move...