Nice rant. Maybe, just maybe, you could try studying chess and improve that way? As a diamond member who has only done 115 out of the nearly 4000 Chess Mentor lessons available, that seems a logical place to start. Check out GM Patrick Wolffes tactics courses. He's got over a dozen on all the tactical motifs. Maybe if you learn to recognize a few more patterns, you'll have better results. OTOH your rant seemed pretty lighthearted so maybe you like where you are. Studying isn't for everyone.
Humorous rant ;-)
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I had this on bullet the last hundred games.. Dropped over 200 points.. XD
Jul 4, 2015
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Hi, You're right across the board so to speak. I realize how much study is required to improve and I wish I could put in more time so I take things in stride and try to learn as much as I can through the tools here. It's such an amazingly beautiful and damning game. I am dumbfounded at the obvious...after the fact. That's what I call the "blindness". "How is it possible not to have seen that", I marvel.
baddogno wrote:
Nice rant. Maybe, just maybe, you could try studying chess and improve that way? As a diamond member who has only done 115 out of the nearly 4000 Chess Mentor lessons available, that seems a logical place to start. Check out GM Patrick Wolffes tactics courses. He's got over a dozen on all the tactical motifs. Maybe if you learn to recognize a few more patterns, you'll have better results. OTOH your rant seemed pretty lighthearted so maybe you like where you are. Studying isn't for everyone.
Hi fazmaster,
I also suffer from chess blindness, missing captures on both sides, so I found this chess vision tool that helps with this kind of thing:
http://www.professorchess.com/chess_vision/captures_and_checks/
I am not a high level player. Basically a poor blitz player, average standard player....But is there a cure for chess blindness? From not seeing hanging pieces (mine and my opponents. Not seeing easy mate patterns or immediate ones for that matter. Not seeing a stupid pawn guarding the square I have just put my queen on? I keep telling myself these are mistakes easily avoided and to focus a little harder but again and again I throw winning games away to Chess Blindness....
There...I feel better!
Cheers,