@formatallan too much here for me to process, so there is too much for you I reckon. See #7 and #14
Having looked at some of your games you tend to hang material (happens to all learners).
As you start to grasp that, then square control follows, which in this game was [d5] as such your play was begging for ... Nf6, which disputes [d5]
My latest disaster. What did I do wrong? (I'm stupid!!!)
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DamonevicSmithlov wrote:
Sigh....... ok op. I know u think ur stupid but the Orwellian new speak police (read the book, 1984. Also known as liberal political correctness) definition is comprehensionally challenged. Please don't incite the thought/speech police. We must bow down and grovel and walk on eggshells with our thoughts and speech. Well, only some of us, others can say any fuggin thing they want without the spoiled pretend victims rioting over it.
Totally depressing especially when it comes to chess. The simple fact with chess is prove the point with a variation.
So: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. cxd dxe 6. Nxd5 (is crap) NxNd5 7. BxQd8 Bb4+
If pointing out to the fictional white player their line was crap at 6. hurt their feelings, well suck it up snowflake.
Micky, dunno which way to read the post. Sure is shit to do with [the] chess game(s).
I was tripping on shrooms a few nights ago, i didnt even try to type. I did try chess and pubg, but I blundered, and kept running around in circles
DeirdreSkye wrote:
kindaspongey wrote:
mickynj wrote:
I have looked at several of the OP's games. and many of them follow this same pattern: The opponent attacks piece with a pawn, and the OP simply ignores the threat and loses a piece on the next move. Or he moves a piece and leaves something undefended and bang! There goes a piece--or a rook. I am not saying this to make fun of the OP, he's an inexperienced player who wants to get better, which is fine. But these tactical oversights are not something to ignore while we try to search for his problem. They ARE his problem! Until you develop the habit of simply looking to see if your move is safe--at least for one ply!--no progress is possible.
Has anyone advocated searching for the one problem of formatallan? Has anyone advocated ignoring tactical oversights? Are tactical oversights a problem where gradual improvement might take place? By the way, other formatallan games can be seen at:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pushing-pawns-a-losers-story
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-embed-chess-games-into-forum
... You fail to realise micky's point ... It's the same mistake repeated over and over again clearly indicating that he is not working in his games as much as he claims he does.
Did mickynj mention the issue of how much formatallan claims to be working?
I do see a mickynj reference to the issue of ignoring tactical oversights while searching for the problem of formatallan.
In view of that, it seems to me to be reasonable to wonder if mickynj knows of anyone advocating the ignoring of tactical oversights while searching for the problem of formatallan.
mickynj wrote:
Chess is a very concrete game. All the strategy, positional understanding, and opening knowledge in the world will be of no use what so ever if every time your opponent suddenly takes one of your pieces for nothing, you are surprised. In fact, if you aren't trying to see what the threat might be when your opponent moves, or trying to see whether your own move simply loses material, you aren't really trying to play chess at all.
If you were working in a hospital emergency room, and a patient came in with a sucking chest and a dislocated finger, which injury should you tackle first? Not looking at the board and trying to see the the threats is the chess equivalent of having a sucking chest wound. Poor opening play is that dislocated finger. You can do a great job of setting the finger, but the patient will die!
Did anyone say anything about what to work on first? And, by the way, is this a life or death issue? Is threat-anticipation a problem where improvement might be gradual?
mickynj wrote:
Of course it's not a life or death issue, but I don't think the OP would have posted here if the topic wasn't important--to him. And we wouldn't be reading and commenting here if chess wasn't important to us.
Am I correct that you are not claiming to know of anyone making a claim about what to work on first? Am I correct that you do not claim to know of anyone advocating the ignoring of tactical oversights while searching for the problem of formatallan?
mickynj wrote (~1 day ago):
... these tactical oversights are not something to ignore while we try to search for his problem. ...
Do you know of anyone advocating the ignoring of tactical oversights while searching for the problem of formatallan?
its just bickering, give it up you guys.
mickynj wrote (~32 minutes ago):
... which injury should you tackle first? ...
Do you know of anyone making an unwise claim about which formatallan problem to tackle first?
robbie_1969 wrote:
its just bickering, give it up you guys.
I think it is worthwhile to consider whether or not we are seeing lengthy objections to ideas that nobody is advocating.
mickynj wrote:
... Just keep posting those book lists
In this thread, do you see a list of more than two books?
May 13, 2018
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#95
Mistakes are a form of misinterpretation,i presume you feel your level of play is not where it should be,therefore leading to you thinking your a bad player.I assure you that everyone makes mistakes and that is what practice is for,yes even i the greatest mind to ever exist makes countless mistakes.Proving my point that we are all prone to mistakes but it is not the mistakes that determine who we are and how people see us but rather what we do to resolute the mistakes we make.
kindaspongey wrote:
robbie_1969 wrote:
its just bickering, give it up you guys.
I think it is worthwhile to consider whether or not we are seeing lengthy objections to ideas that nobody is advocating.
wouldn’t it be more productive to address what people have actually expressed rather than what they haven’t?
robbie_1969 wrote:
kindaspongey wrote:
robbie_1969 wrote:
its just bickering, give it up you guys.
I think it is worthwhile to consider whether or not we are seeing lengthy objections to ideas that nobody is advocating.
wouldn’t it be more productive to address what people have actually expressed rather than what they haven’t?
I addressed some of what was expressed in #100 and #117.
May 14, 2018
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#98
formatallan wrote:
Here is my latest disaster. Can you guys please tell me what I did wrong other than being stupid and a terrible player? I spent most of the game playing defense and actually played a long loss. I was hoping the clock would run out and it almost did, but alas it did not. This was a player with a lower rating who once again seemed to have every move memorized and counters for everything I did. Does everyone really have 10,000 moves/tactics memorized? Is that what I had to do? The opening was terrible.
I am now 14 games below .500 and my rating continues to plummet. I am sure it will be zero soon. I hate this stupid game. Anyways, your help is greatly appreciated. click link below. I don't know how to embed the games into the forum. Probably because I am stupid.
Here you have the first moves of your game commented, now your job will be to comment the rest of the game, without looking to engine's evaluations.
May 14, 2018
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#99
Here the instructions for post a game with comments:
1. Go to your game and click the download symbol (the second one from these symbols above your nickname).
2. Copy the PGN. This is all the stuff that you have under the title "PGN".
3. Now you have almost: you go to the forum, click the diagram "insert chess game or diagram" (it is a little chess board).
4. Click "load PGN" and paste your PGN. Finish. Now click insert and you have it.
Okay, I forgot to tell you how to insert annotations. Right click on the move and it gives you a menu. Click on "comment", write something, go to the next move, right click, and so on.
May 27, 2018
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#100
Dear formatallan,
Apart from the comments on hanging pieces (putting pieces en prise), I think you get drowned in bad advices here!
To get better you need to improve your chess vision. To do that you need to practice tactics. A very good book is The Manual of Chess Combinations 1a and The Manual of Chess Combinations 1b. (As software Chess Tactics for Beginners 2.0 Chess Training Software.)
Start solving the problems and solve some every day. When short on time, solve at least one problem. Solve all the problems at least six times. Yes, that takes its time, but you are going to improve very much.
Do not waste your time studying the opening. You are obviously able to play the Italian game.
See more advice at the webpage "How to Get Good at Chess, Fast: A simple, step-by-step guide to rapid chess improvement" by Gautam Narula.
(I agree with most of his advices, except his choices for openng systems. I will never do anything on the board that I don't understand, and fianchetto-systems are beyond me. I play open openings and gambits and follow general rules; never be afraid of doing something unexpected in the opening.
I know a guy who never studied one opening and he beats me more often than I beat him, because he is better seeing the board.
When your rating reaches 1400-1500 you may benefit from opening studies and strategy, hardly before that level.)
You should feel happy to be hidden in the anonymity of the web. I would love to meet you and wait that you call me an hypocrite face to face. I guess you would not if you see me. A lit of people are just sick from your constant arrogance and your insults. Something very bad happened to you to make you behave like this. This is just sad and pitiful.
Haha taking the moral high ground ('sad and pitiful behaviours!!1') while talking like a thug, as if you'd beat him up for daring to say something to you? You're the sad and pitiful one.We don't tolerate you Nazi scum here. Be gone with you!
Okay, now I am a Nazi. Good to know.