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xman720
xman720
Mar 19, 2016
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uri65 wrote:
xman720 wrote:
If you make yourself check all of your checks every move, then sometimes you will overlook your normal habit of checking all checks and blunder. The only logical way to continue is to take time every move to check whether or not you have checked all checks. Of course, sometimes you will overlook that you forgot to check if you have checked all checks. Frustrated, you may continue by taking every move to check if you have checked if you have checked all checks.

This can continue forever, but all it does is move the location of the blunder. There is no real value in trying to look deeply into the psychology of a blunder when at some level, no matter how deep, something was just overlooked. It is better to just practice and get better at chess.

Sorry I don't understand what you are talking about. There is nothing to go forever here. Just basic cheklist. Like in JBS53 case - just have a habit of considering your opponents reply. Don't think at depth of 1 ply. It's not so much about psychology - it's rather about laziness and hastiness.

What if you play a move, but forgot to apply your checklist of seeing how your opponent can reply. Is there anything you can learn from that blunder?

uri65
uri65
Mar 19, 2016
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#22
xman720 wrote:
uri65 wrote:
xman720 wrote:
If you make yourself check all of your checks every move, then sometimes you will overlook your normal habit of checking all checks and blunder. The only logical way to continue is to take time every move to check whether or not you have checked all checks. Of course, sometimes you will overlook that you forgot to check if you have checked all checks. Frustrated, you may continue by taking every move to check if you have checked if you have checked all checks.

This can continue forever, but all it does is move the location of the blunder. There is no real value in trying to look deeply into the psychology of a blunder when at some level, no matter how deep, something was just overlooked. It is better to just practice and get better at chess.

Sorry I don't understand what you are talking about. There is nothing to go forever here. Just basic cheklist. Like in JBS53 case - just have a habit of considering your opponents reply. Don't think at depth of 1 ply. It's not so much about psychology - it's rather about laziness and hastiness.

What if you play a move, but forgot to apply your checklist of seeing how your opponent can reply. Is there anything you can learn from that blunder?

You can't learn anything new - you already know that not applying a checklist is a bad habit and can lead to a blunder. But it can give you motivation to reinforce a good habit, to go through checklist not only when playing, but also when doing puzzles. However first you have to analyse a lost game  and find the reason behing the blunder.

uri65
uri65
Mar 19, 2016
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#23
xman720 wrote:

What if you play a move, but forgot to apply your checklist of seeing how your opponent can reply. Is there anything you can learn from that blunder?

Actually there is something you can learn from that blunder - it's not about chess, but about your weaknesses as a chess player. For some blunders it will be bad habit of skipping the checklist. For others it can be bad pattern recognition or poor theory knowledge. This information can give you motivation and direction for further training. But if you don't analyse - you wll never know.