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Anti-chess as a cure for blunders

#2
Antichess is an entirely different game, both in terms of ruleset (e.g. forced capture) and in terms of strategy (you don't necessarily want to hang every piece at every opportunity, but to play well, you might rather want to keep your pieces but make sure they're very mobile so you have control over the board). I just can't follow the logic that playing antichess helps with making less blunders in standard chess... solving tactics puzzles or things like that just seems more effective to me.
#3
Don't know why this received so many dislikes, legitimate question. I think I agree that antichess would be too off-the-wall for this purpose. Some advice *I* got from a titled player many years back was to do mate in x problems, with the idea of sharpening your attention to all of the small details
#4
Well, I don't know wether it combats one's habit of hanging pieces. But in my own experience, I atribute to Antichess my courage to sacrifice a piece by moving it towards my opponent's field. (As I'll explain later on, this is a generality that may have the same meaning -an attempt to win - in both regular chess and the variant we're talking about)
It is pretty much logical (just as saying that 2+2=4) that different chess variants demand different moves because the meaning of the game lies within different sets of pieces (e.g frozen pawns may be a draw in regular chess, whereas in antichess it may be a win for the one who has the turn). But we should consider that:
1 - There is a difference between what a move "looks like", i.e in which lines of attack a piece is put in, or drawn off of, where can it go in the next move; and "what that means", say, in regular chess, that that piece threatens an enemy piece, checks the enemy king, protects a vulnerable spot in one's position; whereas in antichess, that that piece, even if it is your own king, will most likely be captured, or be forced to capture an enemy piece, or maybe that the pieces are too far off of one another (say, there are only kings, pawns, and knights left) and some moves will be spent until the next capture.
2 - Hence, the needed mindset, let's say, to play regular chess is opposite (but not always contradictory) from the one needed in antichess. In the former, you know that you're winning when you have extra material without extra activity from your opponent's pieces, or when you're close to checkmate your opponent's king, while in the latter you know that you're winning when your opponent is forced to take all of your remaining pieces.
With all that being said, you might exercise your brain to a different situation by playing antichess, but I suppose that you plan to play some patterns of moves in it that you would AVOID AT ALL COST to play in a serious game of regular chess. This strategy might work such as a "reversed psychology" for you to understand that some situations demand giveaways and others demand retaining, but sometimes we may forget details, think about ghosts (something "on" the board that wasn't really there), miss the count of material in the game, miss counterblows (both from ourselves and from our opponent), and even create the habit of playing in some way which is different from what the position demands. Not everybody can "switch" easily and quickly from one mindset to the other.
#5
I am not sure that antichess improves your chess skills. Yes you may be more aware of hanging pieces but most chess games are won or lost due to missed tactics for example missed mates are not accounted for in antichess although piece activity can be good or bad there are no other positional aspects that reflect a normal chess game. Also I have seen strong antichess players who I have lost to but those same players I would beat in a standard chess game. In my own case I have 2300+ in all standard chess time controls (excluding ultrabullet) but only upper 1700 to 1800 average antichess.
#6
I don't think playing antichess really improves your tactical vision. The style of play in antichess is just so much different from regular chess. To get better at tactics, doing thematic puzzles can really help you a lot. The step method chess books are a good series to start with to help with tactics. You can find all of the step method chess tactic books here: www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B074HD59LF/ (I recoomend buying the paperback) . If you want free resources on tactics, you should play a lot of puzzle racer since it is super fun, but you should also try doing puzzle storm when you have a lot of time on your hand once in a while to get used to harder tactics. You can also try doing regular lichess puzzles.
#8
@greysensei said in #1:
> The Russian wikipedia page on antichess says that it is used as a method to combat blunders (hanging pieces).
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> ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8
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> Has anyone tried that and has it helped cure your blunders? I'm desperate for anything that could help. The number of times I find myself in positions where I'm totally winning just to blunder a piece is disheartening.

Sir do you even know what you are talking about? Don't spill out random non-verified facts.
#9
Well if you got it on Russian wikipedia then it must be legit.

Honestly though doesn't seem to make a ton of sense but I wouldn't say it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard either, but it's probably just strictly less effective than some other things
#10
Antichess is basically a tower of cards in which even a single touch makes the whole tower fall.

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