Originally posted by paultopiaI think its something to do with the time of the month.
of wildly fluctuating playing ability from one period of time to another?
I have this experience, where one week I'm playing brilliantly, coming up with combinations left and right and winning game after game. Then the next week I'm hanging rooks.
Why is this? Anyone?
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Originally posted by paultopiaOk,ok,I'll try.On this site it could be simply the number of games you're playing.Too many games,you don't take enough time to move--->bad moves.
soo... anyone have any serious comments on this issue? :-)
In live chess it may be that you're not concentrated,rushed your move,were only thinking about your own schemes and payed no attention to what your oppo was doing.And then there is the most dreaded of all,you could be 'schaakblind'.This is a dutch term,it means as much as 'chessblind'.A player that suffers from this misses the most obvious traps.He simply doesn't 'see' anything,thus is blind.This is just a periodical thing,most players suffer from it more or less.Nobody knows the why or how,it just happens.....
Now,wasn't this a fair try to be serious? 🙂
Sir Lot.
This happens to me all the time too. I think it's just concentration. I think that sometimes I rush things; sometimes I get too focussed on my own brilliant plan that I forget that I need to defend. It comes down to impatience.
Knowing all that, I continue to hang rooks.
?? - it's frustrating!
Originally posted by SirLoseALotthanks sir lot :-).
Ok,ok,I'll try.On this site it could be simply the number of games you're playing.Too many games,you don't take enough time to move--->bad moves.
In live chess it may be that you're not concentrated,rushed your move,were only thinking about your own schemes and payed no attention to what your oppo was doing.And then there is the most dreaded of all, ...[text shortened]... the why or how,it just happens.....
Now,wasn't this a fair try to be serious? 🙂
Sir Lot.
schaakblind... I've been there before. Once, admittedly in a blitz game but still, I forgot which directions the pawns were moving. I sat the and actually calculated a forcing line that involved me putting my queen en prise to my opponent's pawn, and played it, in the honest belief that my queen wasn't en prise. I'd been attacking backwards (had very effectively invaded his 7th/8th ranks with major pieces, and was attacking back toward the center, where his king was... ie. I had a dead solid win until then) and somehow just got turned around.
Horrible.
But surely there must be some kind of technique to avoid this.