post your hesitation here

post on what moves you hesitate with and why you hesitate, and hopefully it can be answered.

I hesitated for several seconds before posting in your thread.

I am still a beginner close to intermediate I think, so I might post questions people don't even want to answer 0_0

                     I'll hesitate when he does post a question.

Every time I've hesitated in a game where I couldn't see the way through, I made a "safe" move and ended up losing a dreadful game.

But when I'm in the same spot and take the plunge, those games end badly too.

I guess the hesitation is only a measure of my inability to judge the position.

h3 and h6.

Before I started studying, this move seemed weak and done out of fear.

Now, I am still hesitant and will consider for a long time if one of these is a candidate move.

Also o-o-o. The whole a-pawn thing really always got to me.

He who hesitates is lost!

He who plays quickly is lost, too.

Sucks, doesn't it?

@DrSpudnink, maybe instead of making a 'safe move' or original moves, you can make 'new moves' as in, you can make different moves and analyze the move, and if you still lose with it, you'll still learn, hesitating can you lead from good to bad and bad to good. When you hesitate, I think of it as like, you get a glimpse of becoming better, probably doesn't even make sense, but I dunno.

Yeah blueemu, you're exactly right, but I also think of hesitation as... good as well. COUNTLESS games, I've played and countless games I've played <Did that on purpose, has been loses and wins with hesitation.

@kleelof 

You're probably not use to it, h3 and h6 white and black if i am correct, h3 can sometimes be a really good move, as you know if your bishop would be trapped, you can play h3 giving a square for the bishop to escape. And alot of GM's pin your knight with their bishop, so h3 stops that :) Now h6... it's just the same thing, but as black! You shouldn't hesitate, at first it might seem as, 'OH GREAT I JUST BLOCKED MY ROOK IN! THIS LOOKS CRAMPED' but, really you've saved your bishop from dying, whats better do you think? Be cramped a bit, or lose your bishop. Don't hesitate against it.

Don't be discuraged by the, I'm sure, 'friendly' comments being posted by the funky bird and manwithlongusername.

Sometimes people forget what it is like to be new to the study of chess and often don't realize that these seemingly petty questions are actually similar to many challenges faced by new players. In fact, they probably asked similar questions when they started out.

Here is an example. A topic that every player has to deal with: pawn weaknesses. Yet, nobody responded. I can only assume the 'strong' players thought it was some naive question that didn't warrant answering. 

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pawn-pleasure

I think it is better to ask 'naive' questions rather than not question anything at all.

I answered it, hopefully it was good enough... I live in Canada, I am vietnamese and Canada person soo.

Thanks. Seems someone else found the thread and posted something too.

Not sure what being Vietnamese and Canadian has to do with it though unless I missed something.

Hey. In Canada, do they do like The U.S. and call you a Vietnamese-Canadian?

No, alot of people don't call me vietnamese because they don't know I am, or don't seem to care. Lol, they call me by my english name 'paul'

Usually when I have to choose between a couple options, the solid steady path, or that juicy knight sac.......

MisterGQ do what your intution tells you, if your a fan of magnus carlsen, as he uses intuition all the time, juicy knight sac, do that if you can actually make ACCURATE AND ACTIVE THREATS, SUCH AS, PIN QUEEN/ CHECKMATE <Pretty hard PIN WITH QUEEN, CHECKMATE, I made a rook sacrifice, a REALLY AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT TODAY, and won his queen with a pin from my bishop, the move wasn't forcing though,

and for the solid steady path, you'd still make blunders, therefore both options can be horrible and good, and one can be good one can be bad, thats probably the part you most hesitate in, even all the options you meet can be bad, so you'd be force to make the best option that fits you or make a move out of those options.

If you're hesitating on some of the moves that have been already posted here, please make use of the responds to it.

One story about hesitation that I can tell you:

I was playing in an OTB (over-the-board) tournament in the Ottawa area (Canada). It was the last round, and I was paired against the tournament leader, half a point behind him... so if I won the game, I would win the tournament; but all he needed was a draw to maintain his half-point lead and take first place. I was playing Black, and my opponent was reputed to be a very solid player with the White pieces. So I had to tempt him into attacking me, to draw him out of his "safe" position; then throw back his attack and win with a counter-attack.

... at least, that was my intention.

My plan to lure him into attacking me was about 1000% successful. I completely overlooked a Knight-for-Pawn sacrifice right in front of my castled King... and suddenly my game looked completely hopeless. I could see that accepting the Knight would result (after a short combination) in me just being two Pawns down with a shattered King's position...

... but I was so shocked by this turn of events that I wrote that move down on my score-sheet ANYWAY (even though I could clearly see that it would lose the game) and reached forward to move...

Then I snapped out of it, just before my hand came near the piece. I gave my head a shake, erased the losing move off my score-sheet, and shoved my hands underneath my bum; and just sat on them while I looked at the board and tried to find a way out of the apparently hopeless position.

... and I found one. I'll post the game in a minute.

Seems to me that was like a really big hesitation...