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During solving tactics do you ever instantly spot the solution and think this is too easy and ...
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Dec 2, 2018
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I was going to say it happens to me a lot on the lower rated puzzles. The solutions are almost too easy.
I remember a tactic that was fairly high rated (above 1700) and consisted of simply taking a hanging queen. It had a success rate of about 20%, probably because most people couldn't believe that a tactic like that would have such a high rating. So, yes, I guess everyone is more or less susceptible to such thinking.
I actually took the queen, but only after spending several minutes looking for alternatives.
Dec 2, 2018
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#5
All the time.
No, that can't be it! What am I missing??
Any checks? Anything pinned?
What am I missing?
Maybe it really is that easy.....
This happens a lot. I get lots of tactic problems where it's a 2 or 3 move solution to get a rook or queen and think "there is no way it's that easy". So I try to figure out what the real solution is. For me, there is a lot of luck in these. It seems like every time I think it's really that easy, it's not, I get it wrong. And so I spend 4 or 5 minutes on a very easy problem. Then at the end, I get it right and can't believe it took me 4 minutes to figure out a very easy 2 move problem when the target time was like 19 seconds.
Somehow it knows how to trick me.
... start to look for something more convoluted, then find something that seems more complicated and go for it and find that the move you spotted instantly was the solution after all.
Like this one - https://www.chess.com/tactics/81524
Its obvious the queen is hanging, but then I think this is way too damn easy, a hanging queen lol. There has got to be something else here.