PowerfulGod wrote:
PowerfulGod wrote: How to prevent blunders?
How to prevent blunders?
How to prevent blunders?
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Jun 12, 2017
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jibonmaran wrote:
PowerfulGod wrote:
How to prevent blunders?
PowerfulGod wrote: How to prevent blunders?
you are my biggest blunder
Jun 12, 2017
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bb_gum234 wrote:
As a beginner, all moves seem equally good (or equally bad) so in the beginning it's actually an accomplishment to find a move you like more than the others. So from the very beginning we build a habit of looking for reasons to like a move (usually because it threatens something).
But later we have to add another step to our thinking, we have to find all the reasons a move is bad. Usually this is done when a player is more experienced, like you, and you can already find good looking moves relatively quickly, and with little effort. As a beginner this took up most of your mental energy, but now you'll have to make a habit of spending most of your energy on making those good moves look bad
If you can't make a good move look bad, i.e. if you still like your intended move, then you can play it.
(Once you practice this a lot, you wont have to spend as much energy on it.)
i play like 10-15 moves very decent, i mean no mistakes and then goes partyyy
Jun 12, 2017
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bb_gum234 wrote:
PowerfulGod wrote:
i play like 10-15 moves very decent, i mean no mistakes and then goes partyyy
Dan Heisman talks about this. He says everyone makes sure their intended move is safe sometimes... but the goal is to make sure for 100% of our moves in 100% of our games, and that's tough. Even professionals blunder sometimes (very rare, but it can happen). So never think you can't improve this!
Other than completely missing an opponent's piece is attacking something, often a blunder happens because we think our threat will force them to do something. For example I threaten their queen. They have to retreat the queen for sure right... then boom, I'm checkmated, oops. Or I capture their knight. For sure they have to recapture right? Then boom, they fork my king and queen, oops. That sort of thing.
yep, i know what are you talking about, but it's one to know and second to do it all the time.
I'm wrapping up my first month back playing chess. So far I'm following these self-appointed guidelines. While I'm playing I think this:
1. What Would Magnus Do? WWMD?
The problem I'm having is 'Why would Magnus do that?"
So I changed the question:
What Would GM Ben Finegold Do?
So I typed a sarcastic comment involving "Mike Kummer" while chatting during a game.
But that could get me banned.
So now I am focusing on 'opening principles' -- Dan Rensch has a good video -- and trying to 'not suck' while going through this beginner learning curve.
I've downloaded my games and am getting a desktop-based analysis program. My plan is to go through and look at the moves just before I massively blundered (lost a queen, et cetera) and see if I can find some patterns and, hopefully, not repeat them in future games.
In the meantime I'm having fun ... kind of ... playing better would mean having more fun. Now I just need to do the work.
posts #4 and #5 were very instructive. good advice bb_gum ☺
Slower time controls.
PowerfulGod escribió:
How to prevent blunders?
Stop playing
Jun 12, 2017
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MickinMD wrote:
Play a lot of games or play with slow time controls.
oh, no man, i just cant do that. it's so boring and as soon as i make move i start surfing in net, so i think and learn more in blitz and bullet and i just like it.
yep bb_gun gave me really good advices, i will use them.
Jun 12, 2017
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#13
Play slow games OTB in official competition. It's a cure when a blunder will waste your entire day: you pay attention, you dread a blunder, you suffer and force yourself into checking, double checking, triple checking, 40, 50 or 60 times in a row, for hours... and end up insane or stronger. It's a risk, I reckon. 
Jun 12, 2017
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#14
PowerfulGod wrote:
How to prevent blunders?
When you find out, let me know.
Jun 12, 2017
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I don't think there is any magic way to prevent blunders. Even Carlsen, sometime in the last year, missed a forced checkmate and settled for a draw. I remember discussion about it here on the site. I am hoping I can reduce the frequency of my blunders by continuing to study and play . . .
Ask yourself before and after you visualize your move, 'what is my opponent threatening.' Its easier said than done though.
Tips for reducing blunders:
1. Always study your opponent's last move
2. Before you make a move, check if there is a tactical drawback
3. Always look at the whole board
4. Solve easy problems for pattern recognition
5. Solve harder problems for calculation training
6 Don't lose focus
7. study endgames and strategies(good positions are easier to play)
How to prevent blunders?
I would also add the exhortation to not get into time trouble.
Solve a mad amount of tactics. Helps tremendously, as you start intuitively seeing subtle connections between pieces and are much less likely to blunder.
How to prevent blunders?