Originally posted by KatastroofI do the same thing and worse. At times I find I play the game better after I have played a move. It is too late to play that better move or take back a bad move.
It's common in OTB and I can understand that with time pressure and having to calculate everything in your head.But it also happens to me in CC which I find strange.Recently I had a game where I was trying to mate starting with Qb5-d3,spent about 20 minutes shuffling the pieces but found no mate.I decided to play it anyway because it was still the stronge ...[text shortened]... to the fact it was attacked.Now I'll have to win that game so I can call it a sacrifice 😀
This is often a case when you are a bit under confident as well. If you aren't quite sure then when you take a "new" look at a position you can see a move that looks better that you hadn't seen before. But that does not necessarily mean it is better.
This is often the case when you do long calculations in your head and you get tired and have maybe a difficult position. Then when you've just decided that, "ok i can play this." You move your hand and take a deep breath, and voila your brain gets a break and you see some new stuff. "Ohh crap thats much better!" says the brain, why have i been wasting my time with this long calc. when i could just do this?
And so you hastily make the new move. If your unlucky. If you don't then you check it out as well of course. This is also true about your opponents moves, how often havent you been calc'ing for 15 min just to as you take a deep breath see something new that you didnt before just at the start of the calc maybe. And your immediately thinking "damn i just missed something" and make a stupid move.
This might of course not be true for all people but for me it has been several times.
The way to help this as i believe is to grow confident in your abilities as a analyst. If you come to a conclusion it is right. And if you make a mistake then you just have to see too what the cause was. Your ability to spot moves that you didn't before will grow in time.
So after a while you should not say oh darn i missed something when your opponent plays something you didn't see. You should say. That's not the best move, cause i checked the best move. 😉
And if you feel your head is clowdy or not in focus don't make moves, that's just common sense. Presence in the moment. I more often ask myself if I'm clowdy or drowzy from work or something before making cc moves lately. Rather than asking about the game. If I'm ok in my mind then i'll see obvious stuff, if i'm ok i'll see most good moves. So i'll just have to do the calc and make the move. with confidence.
For example, i wont make a move now. I'm tired and i know i'm rambling here 🙂
Hope this makes any sense ._.
Originally posted by KatastroofAnother possibility is that a player begins with a certain idea and pursues it, along with branch and other related lines, to the exclusion of all else. By the time he finishes his (involved, but fruitless) examination, he's tired and ready to just move a piece, and may have forgotten that completely unrelated lines which he's never even considered may exist.
Yeah,Qxe2 of course.I said Qe2 because initially I gave no position so it didn't matter.The thing is,I normally don't have a problem shedding pieces,even a queen.A sac is the first thing I look at,especially when my opponents king is in such a tight spot as in the diagram.I don't know about other players 'at our level',personally I usually suck at positio ...[text shortened]... n situations.Sounds intresting.I never even knew this area of chess had been studied.
I don't have the book handy, but I'm pretty sure I can find the chapter in question. It may take a few days, so keep an eye out. If I forget, PM me.
Just remembered a big point i was trying to get at yesterday.
Old evaluations. If you get an idea and you evaluate it you often keep it in your mind. So when the position changes and what was bad once maybe is good now or vice versa.
A common chess blindness this is, you miss something cause you already checked it. But chess shifts, it's ever evolving throughout a game and when you learn to master being in peace with the quicksand you will grow a lot as a player.
Or at least lets hope so ;o