On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:18:54 -0800 (PST), Eli Kesef
<nastyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bs"d
Interesting game against a 1600 in my mind boggling style: https://lichess.org/pP6c08aAyi6IWell other than not playing at all I've found no sure fire remedy
against blunders.
One of my great memories of the 1971 Canadian Open was my round 1 game
when I was a protected passed pawn up and cruising to victory against
a player 150 points higher than me only to lose my focus and grabbed a
pawn on h7 - the response was g6 of course and I put my face in my
hands and only then looked up - and to my horror saw World Champion
Boris Spassky watching my blunder. (I was playing on the main aisle
that one went up when going from the TD's table to board 1)
To this day nearly 50 years later I wonder whether Spassky remembered
that distraught Canadian teenager in Vancouver when Fischer did
likewise a year later in the first game of their Reykjavik match when
Fischer also grabbed the H pawn.
(One of my few regrets of my teens was that I did NOT attend any of
the Fischer-Taimanov games held in a theatre on the same university
campus - it was an 1h20m bus ride from my home and my parents figured
that was a bit much for 14 year old me. I still have the issue of
Newsweek magazine that featured Fischer on the cover)
Bs"dsimple reason that I didn't bother to look what was going on: https://lichess.org/SFI16a3G2zYj
And I got myself another crass blunder, really a shame, because the game was going so well. I played a Russian defense, hoping for a Stafford, getting a 4 horses game, ripped from the guy a castle, and then blundered away my queen, for the one and only
Horrible!
Thank God I got compensated for this horrible incident, and in the following two games, I won the queen of the enemy in the opening:
In this one on move 8 I caught him: https://lichess.org/G4bCRfC588Kr
And in this one I trapped the queen on move 9: https://lichess.org/G4bCRfC588Kr
That gives some consolation.
Eases the pain.
https://tinyurl.com/violent-sport
Bs"d
And I did it again; overlooked a mate in one: https://lichess.org/pN12nfd17K3P On move 36 I had a mate in one, but I decided to do something else. Another blunder festival.
https://tinyurl.com/last-blunder
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:32:19 -0800 (PST), Eli Kesef
<nastyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Bs"d
And I did it again; overlooked a mate in one: https://lichess.org/pN12nfd17K3P On move 36 I had a mate in one, but I decided to do something else. Another blunder festival.
https://tinyurl.com/last-blunderMissing a mate in 1 is pretty bad unless your time is seconds from expiring....
https://tinyurl.com/last-blunderMissing a mate in 1 is pretty bad unless your time is seconds from
expiring....
Bs"d
When it comes to chess I'm like a blind man groping around in the darkness....
https://tinyurl.com/3-stages
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:32:15 -0800 (PST), Eli Kesef
<nastyho...@gmail.com> wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/last-blunderMissing a mate in 1 is pretty bad unless your time is seconds from
expiring....
Bs"d
When it comes to chess I'm like a blind man groping around in the darkness....
https://tinyurl.com/3-stagesI've had games like that - I usually say "burn the board! burn the
pieces!" but know I actually won't.
On Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 10:50:28 PM UTC+2, azigni wrote:
They are only blunders if they do not look brilliant by the end of the game.Bs"d
Good point. That will happen some times, that after a horrible blunder, it turns out there is a brilliant hidden win.
Can't remember when that happened to me though.
Bs"d
It is depressing when you play over a winning game with Stockfish and then you see how many times you blundered, and how many times the enemy could have slaughtered you... :(
On Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 2:05:07 AM UTC-5, Eli Kesef wrote:
Bs"d
It is depressing when you play over a winning game with Stockfish and then you see how many times you blundered, and how many times the enemy could have slaughtered you... :(Just recall that Petrosian himself, in a crucial game in the Candidates tournament in 1956, in a winning position, under no time pressure, when his opponent had only one active piece on the board, managed to hang his queen.
Compared to that, all my many blunders look rather inconsequential.
William Hyde
Bs"d
I thought I played blunderful, but now I know I'm not so bad after all. It can always be worse.
In this very amusing youtube an IM goes over a game of two 700 players. It is a short game, and it contains 19 blunders.
The comment of the IM is hilaric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POVEOmjcZwI&t=241s
I feel a lot better now about my games. :D
On Monday, March 14, 2022 at 5:21:40 PM UTC-4, Eli Kesef wrote:
Bs"d
I thought I played blunderful, but now I know I'm not so bad after all. It can always be worse.
In this very amusing youtube an IM goes over a game of two 700 players. It is a short game, and it contains 19 blunders.
The comment of the IM is hilaric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POVEOmjcZwI&t=241s
I feel a lot better now about my games. :DThis is one of the good things about chess. No matter how bad you are, there is someone worse. And now lichess makes it easy to find them.
William Hyde
But those are the best games, where you back is against the wall, you are positionally or materially in problems, you fight on, and then you win the game anyway.
Never say die!
Bs"dit, but went on to win a pawn.
Is there a cure for playing blunderfull?
My big problem is my rotten play and especially my blunders. Just played a nice game, routed a decent player, https://lichess.org/V2zsemfOzMIL but when playing it over again, I saw that on move 30 the opponent blundered away a castle, and I didn't see
Didn't matter too much in the result, the opponent resigned on move 32, but it is not good.
All my games are riddled with blunders like that.
Does anybody know a solution for that?
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