Do you ever see your blunder immediately AFTER you've made your move?
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IHateThatILoveChess
Oct 26, 2023
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#1
It's really strange. And I know it doesn't happen exclusively on my chess board. But...why? Sometimes I can analyze a position for minutes, make a move and then in a split second see why it's a blunder. Other times it's only analyzing for seconds, but nevertheless, still true. And obviously not always. This happens for prob 25% of my blunders. Same with puzzles sometimes too. I can get them wrong and then when I go back to review it's like..."duh...it's this check I didn't even see before." It's weird.
Oct 26, 2023
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#2
Anyone who says no would be lying. The board magically looks different after that.
look at it this way. the fact that you can see that it is a blunder even after the fact means that you are improving at chess. if you were not improving, you would not identify that it was indeed a blunder.
Oct 26, 2023
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#4
Yes and then I *gasp* and then I hope they don’t see it…they saw it
Oct 26, 2023
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#5
Worse still. See a blunder. Don't make it. Continue analysing. Make the blunder which you already discounted. Immediately remember that it's a blunder.
really though
CraigIreland wrote:
Worse still. See a blunder. Don't make it. Continue analysing. Make the blunder which you already discounted. Immediately remember that it's a blunder.
This.
Oct 27, 2023
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#8
bigD521 wrote:
CraigIreland wrote:
Worse still. See a blunder. Don't make it. Continue analysing. Make the blunder which you already discounted. Immediately remember that it's a blunder.
This.
This +1!
@1
"analyze a position for minutes, make a move and then in a split second see why it's a blunder"
++ So: analyse your positions for minutes, then spend a split second to check it is no blunder, only then make your move.
"This happens for prob 25% of my blunders"
++ So just blunder checking will reduce your blunders by 25%.
Oct 28, 2023
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#10
Yes definitely. It’s because we only see the reason of the move and not the others. When we played our move, we feel more relaxed and we look around the position, and then you see the blunder
Oct 28, 2023
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#11
I have evolved a technique for dealing with exactly this problem.
I figured that the reason I typically spot the blunder almost immediately after making my move is that my mental perspective changes once I've made a move. Some of the tension goes out of me, and I look at the position from a slightly different mental angle.
So I tried this:
Once I've decided on my move, I don't make it immediately. Instead, I create a little mental "video" of myself reaching out and playing that move on the board. I just IMAGINE myself making the move, and then I sit back and relax a bit.
If a few seconds go by without my "blunder alarm" going off, THEN is when I reach out and actually play the move on the board.