traps I am always falling into

as said the title, I can't avoid to fall in those traps in chess

- never detecting opponent direct mistakes, because I am always assuming he knows what he is doing, always assuming the move is a good one as a premise for puzzle solving, and never considering the move itself is stupid, this is out of my radar and my way of thinking. I dont have this mentality to spend time scanning my opponent to guess, oh, is it a bad move or a good move. I have better to do than losing myself in suspicion of other imperfections.

- over-selecting defence. this is the same prob as above, that I consider opponent move as questions, I am supposed to answer, and this shapes my mental box, to find appropriate defences responses, to the problem asked.  this results in over selecting defence as soon as I found a good one I am very happy with, while .. nope.. it was not the best move. the best move was attack, but I didn't even consider it, because, yu know, I was in the hurry to parry in self defence,  and attack will come latter when il have time to, that is to say, never.

- I am always the happy guy as soon as I found ONE good move, and stop my tree search immediately after finding a gain, I am looking forward with so eager expectation , I cant help to play it RIGHT AWAY, while, err, that was stupid.. cause there  was a HUGE BRILLANT move, that comes after in second position, that I missed,  selecting only the straight forward mitigated and not so good first one.

- the timing problem. I have speed thinking, bullet thinking , not for playing the move, where I take time, to play an average move, but as soon as I played a piece, it is like I am recovering my genius skills, and have a whole instantaneous consciousness of the chess board and the full universe around, that lapses for less than half a second,  realising my move was a mistake and what the brillant move was, while I spend 5 min to play this move.

- train of defence that are hiding incoming train of attack. sometimes the opponent has the very  bad idea to combine two action in one move :  do a defensive move, to parry an attack, which is also discovering an attack. my néandertalians heuristic reflex, which have been coded and buried into the mind for centuries,  cannot realise that. in my heuristic, one playing for defence is a wounded bird, close to the end, and an appeal to ring the hallali, putting the last forces in and ultimate pursuing attack. while, err... nope....   that was indeed an attack in return, and I am in trouble.

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      RICH