Hi I would say that I am an intermediate player with elo rating around 1800. It´s happening to me time after time that when I have completely won positions especially in the endgame I blunder and lose the game. This is happening in tournaments in long games and I blunder even though I have thought about some game for a long time. It´s just like I forget to cover all possibilities that my oppenent has in the next move and afterwards I can´t understand how I missed this.
Can anyone give me some advices on why I keep blundering and how to stop it?
Thanks.
I am no different from you.
I found the following steps on a chess website good on reducing OTB errors.
1. write opponent's move.
2. See what he is threatening especially with last move.
3. Understand his plan.
4. Look for tactics.
5. Make your plan.
6. Write your move on the score sheet.
7. See the board with the position after the move would be made.
8. Make your move.
9. Press clock.
Some good site worth visiting.
http://www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/adv.htm
http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/Intermediate/adtactics/calculation_of_variations.htm#Initial%20candidate%20moves
http://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess/improvetactics.html
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/planning.html
Other players may want to comment.
I too am a classic blunderer. Done quite a few of late. It really is a question of thinking things through, not just to the point of a 'good' thing (e.g. take opponents rook) but beyond that to the consequences.
But as a general 'tip' if your are constantly not seeing your opponents plans, is to turn the board around and pretend you are your opponent for a while. Then see what would you like to happen/hate to happen while you are playing as them.
Its really quite odd how different the board looks from the other side!
Originally posted by thbHow can you blunder if you have 0 moves?😕😕
Hi I would say that I am an intermediate player with elo rating around 1800. It´s happening to me time after time that when I have completely won positions especially in the endgame I blunder and lose the game. This is happening in tournaments in long games and I blunder even though I have thought about some game for a long time. It´s just like I forget to co ...[text shortened]... d this.
Can anyone give me some advices on why I keep blundering and how to stop it?
Thanks.
OK there are some good comments here but also a lot of bad ones. I asked if you could help me but some people in here just post a message saying they also blunder a lot. Not much help in that 😉 Also I do not understand Ravello´s post, what does he mean by the question "How can you blunder if you have 0 moves?"
After 0 moves??? are you mad or something??
But thanks to those who tried to help me 🙂
Originally posted by thbNo, hun, that's called "friendly commiseration." Look it up. http://www.m-w.com
OK there are some good comments here but also a lot of bad ones. I asked if you could help me but some people in here just post a message saying they also blunder a lot.
A BAD comment would be:
"Who cares?"
Which, admittedly, is the feeling I begin to get when you characterize my comment, along with others, as "a lot of bad ones."
Good post. That exeter chess club site is great.
On it you will also find blumenfeld's rule as transmitted by kotov:
"It often happens that a player carries out a deep and complicated calculation, but fails to spot something elementary right at the first move. In order to avoid such gross blunders, the Soviet master B. Blumenfeld made this recommendation:-
When you have finished your calculations, write down the move you have decided upon on the score sheet. Then examine the position for a short time 'through the eyes of a patzer'. Ask whether you have left a mate in one on, or left a piece or a pawn to be taken. Only when you have convinced yourself that there is no immediate catastrophe for you should you make the planned move."
I always tried to figure out how I could lose the game, i.e. give away a piece, etc. Seemed to work for me. Also, blitz helped.