Chess weakness SOS!! Please Read!!

Just wanted to quote this before someone pulls one of their master tricks.

Right, as someone who is  good at "putting away" won games I would like to say a few things.

[1.] When winning  a good method is, as soon as you know that you are winning tactically, positionally or both,  to TAKE YOUR TIME for the next move. Sit on your hands for 5 minutes and spend the 5 minutes doing this:

[2.] Pay absolute respect for that 5 minutes [ or more if you have the clock time] to any opponent counterplay HOWEVER UNSOUND that might be for them.

[3.] Then before making the next move have a look at the clock sutuation and make sure that it's OK. "OK" is subjective. Different players need different amounts of time. But you should know what your "tipping pt" is for when your quality of moves suddenly drops a lot; for me it is if the clock gets down to 4 minutes.

[4.] Stay vigilant. Concentrate. Stay positive. You can do it!

That word troll is thrown around way to quickly. How can you know a person is a troll if your trolling yourself? Gottcha

Then they use it when you leave comments that solve the problem of the thread before it even reaches 20 comments as then have nothing much to say but repeat it what was said or say they disagree withit (without and proof). I have came across a couple with foul mouthes and use initials of the first letters of the words of their nasty comment or change the spelling of it to get away with it.

TheProfessor after a good four or five hours sleep I've come to the conclusion there might be some merit to the "sitting on your hands" technique, however I do not mean this literally.  If you have a style that is unique, yet you've become accustomed to having people--many of them fools--attempting to imitate you everywhere you go it may indeed be beneficial to often conceal that style from the fools.  Good luck with finding balance and harmony in your games.

Either you got happy feet (started making point less moves and figured your opponent would roll over) or the case of the wounded animal is most dangerous when it is wounded (so they fought back and played agressive as they had nothing to lose).

interesting

That reminds me we people want to post that this $100+ book is so great. When the value of it reduces each time somebody buys it as they will also have the same info. Which is why i will not but a book over the value of $50 and if it is i will wait till November when they have online sales and if drops low enough to $50 i will consider buying it.

Thanks for the many suggestions guys, I'm in the process of "kicking this habit" if you will.

The only think is I don't relax when I am winning I tense up.

I know what you mean, had such a phase too a while ago. Whenever I was winning, especially against stronger opponents, I started to blunder and gave it away regularly.

Ofc. endgame knowledge helps here, especially since it gives you confindece (imho this phenomenon is psychological stuff anyways).

But what really helped me was playing "won" positions against Fritz.

For that you can pick any game where the opponent resigned because he was a piece down or so. Or some positions that are results of tactical puzzles. Start with a rook ahead and work your way to smaller advantages. When you learned how to mate the comp at full strenght with only 2-3 pawns up, converting an advantage against humans will be an easy and routine task. In my long games (2h/40moves) I hardly ever given away a stable advantage against equally rated players after having trainged this a couple of weeks. Hope this helps.

Fritz Technique Trainer is a great Chessbase CD for this purpose too.  They have everything from obvious wins (1 star difficulty) to those that really not obvious and finding the win is very difficult, but there nevertheless. 

Thanks, great advice will do, check out my last game against someone nearly 300 points higher than me,  I had the advantage and blew it, still happy I kept it competitive for 67 moves though!!

i also came up with this problem :"its hard to win a won game" . yeah absolutely right that you have a some kind of psychological euphoria that makes you blind for the key move , instead. you make a blunder