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My game keeps getting worse and worse while I explore new ways of playing chess (trying gambits for tempo, opening traps etc)...I tend to think less and less before moving and keep missing the bigger picture.

What should I do?

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Originally posted by Ruubz
My game keeps getting worse and worse while I explore new ways of playing chess (trying gambits for tempo, opening traps etc)...I tend to think less and less before moving and keep missing the bigger picture.

What should I do?
Chessmaster 9000.

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Game 3464589 for example,
you sacrificed 2 pawns in the opening, you're 4th move shoud've been Nxc3

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Originally posted by Ruubz
My game keeps getting worse and worse while I explore new ways of playing chess (trying gambits for tempo, opening traps etc)...I tend to think less and less before moving and keep missing the bigger picture.

What should I do?
Try taking a short break before anything. It works for me.

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Originally posted by EmLasker
Game 3464589 for example,
you sacrificed 2 pawns in the opening, you're 4th move shoud've been Nxc3
At least through White's 5th move, he was correctly playing the main line of the Danish Gambit. (I'm not sure, but I think Black deviated from book on move 5, at least in my small opening book.)

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chessmaster 10th edition

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Originally posted by Ruubz
My game keeps getting worse and worse while I explore new ways of playing chess (trying gambits for tempo, opening traps etc)...I tend to think less and less before moving and keep missing the bigger picture.

What should I do?
You're thinking less about each move. Surely that's why you're missing things.

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Originally posted by Mahout
You're thinking less about each move. Surely that's why you're missing things.
Yet I think I know, that's why I think less. All I know now, is that I don't know anything actually...at least something that I'm sure off 😀

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play fewer games so u can concentrate on the game u palyin more, it works for me!!

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Originally posted by Ruubz
Yet I think I know, that's why I think less. All I know now, is that I don't know anything actually...at least something that I'm sure off 😀
I had a similar experience then had a little online coaching from an IM and realised just how much I didn't know...and how much there is to learn.

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Originally posted by Mahout
I had a similar experience then had a little online coaching from an IM and realised just how much I didn't know...and how much there is to learn.
are you talking chesswise or lifewise?