No More Excuses: Improve Your Chess Today!

@Sarciness said in #9:
> "Even" in 15 + 10 games?
> I know it may seem a long game in the internet age, but that is giving you on average less than 30s a move, so of course your brain is necessarily going to take shortcuts. Serious classical chess starts at 60 mins per game and goes up from there. Be kind to your "decaying" brain- instead give it the time it needs to think "if I make this move, what would my opponent's best reply be" and actually have time to ponder the answer.

And your post completely misses the point. I look at anyone who's at NM level or above and is actually active, and I see they hardly ever them blunder in such a manner in their games for anything over 5+5. Does it happen? Of course. But for most people at that level or above it's at most 1/10 games where they simply miss something is attacked and lose. For me it's every second or third game.

Theres a pretty big gap between the two, and I have yet to find any method of training that's shown it can decrease the distance here for me. I'm not seeking to completely eliminate such one move blunders, since I know it will always happen occasionally for everyone, see kramnik or ivanchuk's missed mates in one for example. What I'm seeking is to decrease how often such things happen, as it's pointless to worry about slight positional advantages when you blunder like this every other game.

@LanceFairfield said in #11:
> And your post completely misses the point. I look at anyone who's at NM level or above and is actually active, and I see they hardly ever them blunder in such a manner in their games for anything over 5+5. Does it happen? Of course. But for most people at that level or above it's at most 1/10 games where they simply miss something is attacked and lose. For me it's every second or third game.
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> Theres a pretty big gap between the two, and I have yet to find any method of training that's shown it can decrease the distance here for me. I'm not seeking to completely eliminate such one move blunders, since I know it will always happen occasionally for everyone, see kramnik or ivanchuk's missed mates in one for example. What I'm seeking is to decrease how often such things happen, as it's pointless to worry about slight positional advantages when you blunder like this every other game.

Actually, I believe you are missing my point. My point is that playing longer games and doing hard chess work will help you to ingrain good chess habits and improve your intuition which will help you make fewer blunders, even under time pressure. There is limited benefit from playing more and more blitz. Do you think Ivanchuk and Kramnik got good at chess by spamming bullet an blit games?

I see you have a very high bulet rating and almost no rapid games, plus zero classical games on your account. Ask yourself honestly: "Is this the balance that is optimal for my chess growth?"

Anyhow, if you insist that improvement is not possible for you and you dismiss this advice, it's your perogative.

@Sarciness said in #12:
> Actually, I believe you are missing my point. My point is that playing longer games and doing hard chess work will help you to ingrain good chess habits.

I do a 75+15 otb game once a week (where about a third of the time I will just miss something is attacked and blunder to a one move threat) just like I have for pretty much a decade and as I said in my other post I've in the past spent lots of time on tactics. My account here is fairly sparse on both because I've seen no results from either in regards to these brain dead blunders and don't bother with either much anymore as a result. Plus online classical has a fair number of cheaters I've found. I've been playing on lichess since 2015, but I would often "rage quit" and close my account in the past out of frustration from failure to improve, only to be back the very next day. It's only due to my general lack of caring about improvement now that my current account has lasted as long as it has.

How to get quiker at chess. None of these stragegy works...

Yes, I know this kind of blunders (not necessarily 1-move blunders, but fairly simple tactics, where I simply "forgot" to calculate this line). Another mistake: I once forgot the clock - I had a totally won position, but I let the time run out. I admit that I once won a game in a similar fashion (the opponent had enough time, but finally simply forgot that the time was running out).

It is not that I cannot calculate, I can, but sometimes I feel over-confident and forget about calculating important lines.

During tactic training I'd see it, but in the practical game I sometimes fail.