Players 100- 2000 - what do you think your biggest weakness in Chess is?

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Avatar of Chemik11

My worst enemy is time pressure and knights forks 😄

Avatar of fireballforge26

Chess is my weakness.

Avatar of SriyoTheGreat

900 - 1000 : Bad at endgames

Avatar of Badchesserrr4486999

My biggest weakness's are blundering, Mistakes, Lack of plans in the middlegame and endgame, And bad at every endgame but king and pawn endgames.

Avatar of JackSmith_GCC

So I started this post a year ago, and tracked the feedback I got. Forgot about this project but it was brought back. Thought I'd share the results so far with you guys, having updated for the most recent posts. Note that some players gave multiple answers, all of which were counted. 
Though I think a lot of the time people might be wrong about what their weaknesses are, I think there is still some value in considering what people consider their weaknesses to be. 
Many of the answers, since they were quite long, required a bit of creative license on my part to fit neatly into a category, but I trust that I did my best most of a year ago to correctly assign categories. tongue.png 
Tactics and calculation seem to be the main self-ascribed weakness over all categories, except the 1800 - 2000 range, where psychological obstacles are the narrow leader. 
I would encourage anyone 1000 and up who feels like their calculation is bad to consider using chesstempo.com. While the puzzles can get rather brutal, if you take your time and have some patience with yourself, I can guarantee you'll start to harvest the fruits of your labour - or, at least, you will feel better because you are actively working on what you consider one of your biggest weaknesses!
Here are the full results thus far:

2000+

Replies - 10

Weak in or Avoiding Tactics/Calculation: 5
Weak at Openings: 1
Weak at Middlegames (positional play): 1
Weak at Endgames: 1
Attacking too much: 1
Psychological obstacles: 1

1800 - 2000

Replies - 10

Psychological obstacles: 3
Weak at tactics/calculation: 2
Weak at Openings: 2
Not recognizing and exploiting advantages: 2
Weak at positional play: 1
Time trouble: 1
Weak at Endgames: 1

1600 - 1800

Replies - 8

Weak at tactics/calculation: 4
Weak at positional play: 2
Time trouble: 2
Psychological obstacles: 1

1400 - 1600

Replies - 15

Weak at Tactics/Calculation: 6
Weak at Endgames: 4
Not recognizing and exploiting advantages: 2
Weak at positional play: 1
Weak at Openings: 1
Weak at Middlegames: 1

1200 - 1400

Replies - 7

Weak at tactics/calculation: 5
Psychological obstacles: 1 
Attacking too much: 1

100 - 1200

Replies - 17

Weak at tactics/calculation: 10
Psychological obstacles: 2
Weak at Middlegames: 2
Weak at Endgames: 2
Weak at openings: 1

Avatar of medelpad
Letting my opponents pull of tactics
Avatar of Jimmyhawk333

A year ago, I would say my mistakes and blunders but I improved on that. Now I would say the misses. I can spot mate in 1 or 2 but anything more I would more then likely not find.

Avatar of PATRlCKSTAR2

tactics arent really too much of a problem, but pawn storms are hard to defend against and the opponent trades off the knights early so i cant use them to defend

Avatar of ryanovster

Magnus carlsen is chess biggest weakness

Avatar of AntzSmashKartsOnYT
JTZ01 wrote:

1900: KNIGHTS aka annoying horsies

cap

Avatar of Reprka

The biggest weakness is myself.

Avatar of Reprka

Because of how terrible of a player I am.

Avatar of AntzSmashKartsOnYT
GabGarbage wrote:

Because of how terrible of a player I am.

same

Avatar of athlblue

same

Avatar of CorbinJonesMMA

I have ADD so I easily get distracted

Avatar of Reprka
CorbinJonesMMA wrote:

I have ADD so I easily get distracted

ADHD?

Avatar of chessterd5

basically 1600 daily, 1400 rapid. pawns. both not dropping them and having the courage when I am up one pawn to go ahead and simplify if it is the right course of action. but having identified it, I am working on it.

Avatar of rooksb4

Getting sniped by a piece I didn't notice (usually a bishop.)

Avatar of White_Enderman303

At 200, I would probally think that my carelessmess as I almost always blunder either my bishop or rook.

Avatar of Badchesserrr4486999
JTZ01 написал:

and fork, and outpost knights just too OP

Outpost bishops much better