Because I don't feel the problems I am having can be fixed by doing anything other than just playing. You can't study blunders. You can study openings. You can study endgames. You can study bishop vs. knight in certain positions. But you can't study blunder prevention. I am not good enough at chess to be able to study openings and endgames.
What is the point of playing?
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You just have to keep on playing. And playing. Eventually you will (or at least, should) stop making nearly so many blunders.
In fact, you will pass from making blunders to making errors (hey, I'll bet Tartakower said that). 
If you play chess to win, and it's like winning wins you like a quadrillion dollars, then why are you playing it?
We have these sorts of thread all the time. You can't will oversight-free chess. All you can do is keep practicing until your sight of the board becomes second nature, and the blunders will (or should) for the most part disappear.
AndyClifton wrote:
We have these sorts of thread all the time. You can't will oversight-free chess. All you can do is keep practicing until your sight of the board becomes second nature, and the blunders will (or should) for the most part disappear.
You can't necessarily fix it just by playing on until it goes away - or you hope it goes away. Contrary to what has been posted, there actually are books that do cover the problem of hanging pieces (among other topics).
Although what it really boils down is moving too quickly. You fix that by moving away from time controls that compel you to play quickly (which means cutting out blitz for awhile), and then putting that extra time to use by going through a systematic blunder check on each and every move.
Every chess player goes through this phase in their game. I've gone through it multiple times due to absences from the game - when I come back to it, I spend a brief period in the "hanging pieces" phase until I move past it.
And chess vision, or lack of it, is another aspect, and this can be developed through tactics training.
This "I'm never going to get better so why bother" is just a pathetic rationalization for being to lazy to do something about it - other than whine about it like a baby.
Sunset96:
Grandmasters and masters these days always reached their title before the age of 15. Past that, you will not improve at chess because if you do not have natural skill at the game from a young age, there is no hope of you being a great player.
LuckyDuck_won1:
I don't think that's 100% true.
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Back than, grandmasters were made at around 25-30 (amazing right)
Its actually easier today, we have faster travel, better conditions, computers, chess.com, etc.
I'd rather be playing today, than back than.
Leonid Stein became a grandmaster pretty late, but he was still a top-class grandmaster for many years.
Why should people be complaining today, we have it easier than they did.
LuckyDuck_won1 wrote:
Sunset96:
Grandmasters and masters these days always reached their title before the age of 15. Past that, you will not improve at chess because if you do not have natural skill at the game from a young age, there is no hope of you being a great player.
LuckyDuck_won1:
I don't think that's 100% true.
Its not true at all. It gets harder as you get older (you have to put more work in to see the same results, and you likely have less free time to do it with), but that doesn't mean that a determined adult player couldn't reach at least expert strength (Elo 2000).
Although I don't share all of his opinions in RCI, De la Maza went from a weak player who'd been stuck there for quite some time, until he developed his own method of intense tactics study (which he first published as an article on Chess Cafe, and then in his book) that took him to a USCF rating of over 2000.
That said, the obvious collorary is that there is no hope for those who believe such nonsense because their belief will ensure they never put the right effort into improvement.
I think we shouldnt compare the past and now. We may have better technology but we also face tougher challenges than before. So in a way, its easier to improve but its harder to become gm due to the amount of information a person needs before he can become gm.
You (we) are all amateurs, not professionals. So, play chess JUST to enjoy it, not to compare yourself with Capa or Alekhine or Tahl. . .
If not. . . how can you enjoy playing billiards, or tenis or swiming. . .if ou are not a greatmaster in those fields. . .?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women...
Benn21 wrote:
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women...
Hearing that, it make me want to be the one who gets crushed...
dpnorman wrote:
Just now I played a game where I had a winning position and completely made an idiot move (like I do every other game) and resigned. Every time I blunder, I resign. Even if my opponent doesn't see it. Because I deserve to lose. Sunset is visibly annoyed at losing, and I can understand that. There's no point of playing a game like this if your goal is to win, because you won't win.
I also agree with your other comment about improvement being nearly impossible. Anand had a quote that went something along the lines of "if you aren't a GM by 14, you might as well forget the whole thing". This is true, since all good players already had their titles by the time they were teenagers. Past that, improvement almost never happens.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no board vision whatsoever. And I make moves impulsively eithout calculating. It makes me feel stupid when I lose, and sometimes I want to quit playing.
Overall, chess is definitely a bad thing in life unless you are good at it, since if you don't win, it makes you feel like crap, but then you want to get revenge. So you play another game, and you lose again, and again you feel like a piece of crap. Chess is no fun at my level because 100% of games under about 1400 rating are decided by blunders that make you feel dumb.
He wasn't saying that people not at that level should forget about playing chess. A lot of people enjoy playing, knowing they won't ever be GMs. He was saying that if you're not a GM by 14, you might as well forget about being world champion. Big difference.
Rape the churches and burn the women.
Conquistador wrote:
Rape the churches and burn the women.
WHAT THE BLARG?!!
for me, i enjoy the time spent at thinking of the best move i can make to take advantage. i enjoy also to think of the answer. how i play is more important than the result.
VULPES_VULPES wrote:
Conquistador wrote:
Rape the churches and burn the women.
WHAT THE BLARG?!!
Oops wrong thread.
Just now I played a game where I had a winning position and completely made an idiot move (like I do every other game) and resigned. Every time I blunder, I resign. Even if my opponent doesn't see it. Because I deserve to lose. Sunset is visibly annoyed at losing, and I can understand that. There's no point of playing a game like this if your goal is to win, because you won't win.
I also agree with your other comment about improvement being nearly impossible. Anand had a quote that went something along the lines of "if you aren't a GM by 14, you might as well forget the whole thing". This is true, since all good players already had their titles by the time they were teenagers. Past that, improvement almost never happens.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no board vision whatsoever. And I make moves impulsively eithout calculating. It makes me feel stupid when I lose, and sometimes I want to quit playing.
Overall, chess is definitely a bad thing in life unless you are good at it, since if you don't win, it makes you feel like crap, but then you want to get revenge. So you play another game, and you lose again, and again you feel like a piece of crap. Chess is no fun at my level because 100% of games under about 1400 rating are decided by blunders that make you feel dumb.
You don't need to be a teenager to make significant progress. It is easier for children to learn the game and they can progress much faster, but adults can progress too.
Impossible to tell what is keeping you from progressing, as you haven't mentioned any methods of making progress that you've tried only to find they didn't work for you. Or maybe that is the problem - you haven't really done anything that might improve your game.