21 Oct '13 04:37>
I’ve just recently gone over the games from my last over the board tourney. Not a very pleasurable experience for me as my play had a lot of blunders. I don’t mean little blunders, but great big fat pendulous ones. I've noticed a pattern in these mistakes. Every time I knew it was wrong before I played it.
http://chesshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lothians-minor-2013-r1.html
Here I’m black and I play Qe5?? Now to blunder like that is bad enough if I never saw that the knight could fork my king and rook, but I did. I also remember thinking that I must keep the e7 square guarded against the fork with my queen, but then offer to exchange her. Madness.
http://chesshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lothians-minor-2013-r3.html
This ones even worse. Black again, I play e3??? Yeh I seen the pawn attacking my queen and looked for the best square to move it. But then I started looking at other aspects of the position. Finally concluding that if I could lure the white queen to the e file, a lot of tactical tricks are in the offing. So I came up with the great move e3 to bait white’s queen. Lunacy.
Is there any hope for me? Or am I destined to make these sort of moves forever?
http://chesshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lothians-minor-2013-r1.html
Here I’m black and I play Qe5?? Now to blunder like that is bad enough if I never saw that the knight could fork my king and rook, but I did. I also remember thinking that I must keep the e7 square guarded against the fork with my queen, but then offer to exchange her. Madness.
http://chesshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lothians-minor-2013-r3.html
This ones even worse. Black again, I play e3??? Yeh I seen the pawn attacking my queen and looked for the best square to move it. But then I started looking at other aspects of the position. Finally concluding that if I could lure the white queen to the e file, a lot of tactical tricks are in the offing. So I came up with the great move e3 to bait white’s queen. Lunacy.
Is there any hope for me? Or am I destined to make these sort of moves forever?