Why do we blunder (and what makes bad chess players) - Chess Forums - Page 2

Rocky64

Aug 25, 2021

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#21

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." - Tartakower

Marquee_K

Aug 25, 2021

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#22

tygxc wrote:

#19
If you lose a game, that means you made a mistake and your opponent exploited it. So the issue is not your opponent, it is you and your mistake.
"At the same time I also feel that when I start a game, I already feel a minor piece down, like I started without one of my knights."
++ This seems irrational. You start with the same 16 men. Maybe you adopted a careless attitude that makes you blunder a piece sooner.

Of course I am making mistakes. But the question is, why are the 600-rated players more capable of exploiting my mistakes than before? This is definitely an environment factor. It's easy to limit the scope of the loss to what is happening on the board in front of you but I feel that it can be something bigger.

Also, regarding the feeling of starting with one piece less, I know it's irrational. That not the point. I'm again interested in the "why". What causes me (and others) to feel this way. I'm no longer looking for a way out but taking this chance to figure out losing on a deeper level, if you know what I mean.

tygxc

Aug 25, 2021

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#23

#22
"why are the 600-rated players more capable of exploiting my mistakes than before?"
++ They most probably are not. You probably make more mistakes than you used too. Look for internal factors, not external factors.
"What causes me to feel this way."
++ Again that is an internal issue and only by introspection can you get an answer from the only person that can answer: you yourself.

indranrehan

Aug 25, 2021

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#24

I take breaks from chess and when I come back I always start at a longer time limit and progressively decrease it.

In a short limit you can consult your memory for similar moves, which is much faster than calculating from scratch.

But if you've never calculated at the longer time limits then you don't ever develop the memory to access.

Start at the longer time limit, think things through more and you will improve at the shorter time limit.

tygxc

Aug 25, 2021

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#25

#3
"Sure, if I read books or actually study tactics that would make me improve. But that's not really my goal."
Maybe that is the explanation. Maybe you wanted to improve and you were annoyed by your own blunders. Maybe you have given up on improving and you do no longer care about blunders. So you make more of them and you do not care.

petrk2

Aug 25, 2021

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#26

I made a great progress on my knowledge of the strategy and tactics over the past few years . When tactics rush started I barely scored 25 after hundreds of attempts, but I gradually improved and yesterday I set the record on 35. The same with tactics where I struggled bellow 2000 for a long time and suddenly the rating skyrocketed to 2600 in last 15 months. But when playing bullet or blitz, I rarely made any progress. I am stuck at the same elo as before - only 1100!, I make horrible newbie mistakes, the quality of the game sucks and I am just very angry about myself.

RobertJames_Fisher

Aug 25, 2021

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#27

petrk2 wrote:

I made a great progress on my knowledge of the strategy and tactics over the past few years . When tactics rush started I barely scored 25 after hundreds of attempts, but I gradually improved and yesterday I set the record on 35. The same with tactics where I struggled bellow 2000 for a long time and suddenly the rating skyrocketed to 2600 in last 15 months. But when playing bullet or blitz, I rarely made any progress. I am stuck at the same elo as before - only 1100!, I make horrible newbie mistakes, the quality of the game sucks and I am just very angry about myself.

Why are you playing bullet or blitz?

tygxc

Aug 25, 2021

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#28

#26
How much time do you spend on a tactics puzzle? When playing you should spend more time on a move as you do not know if there is a tactic or not, so you have to assume there is one.

petrk2

Aug 25, 2021

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#29

#27 I don´t know. I guess it is bit addictive and I am lazy to play slow games online. But I will stop as it cripples my chess

#28 On tactics puzzles I spend around 1-2 minutes on average. When I have enough time to think over everything, then my chess level is not so bad, but when I am in time stress and have to rely on intuition then I am really bad.

tygxc

Aug 25, 2021

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#30

#29
If you need 1-2 minutes per puzzle, then you should play 15|10 or slower.

llama36

Jun 6, 2022

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#31

tygxc wrote:

#6
You can only win a chess game if your opponent makes a mistake. You do not win chess games by good moves, you lose chess games by bad moves. He who makes the last mistake loses.
"All games between players rated <1800 are decided on pieces being blundered on almost every move." - Carlsen

This quote is a lie. Here is the real quote

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/stop-misquoting-carlsen