Hi
I am new to chess and Lichess - playing games against my MasterSoft app on my ipad which I then save in Lichess and create studies of all my games with my comments after each game (I play one long game per day and analyse afterwards). I have been playing a few months and am around 1100 on the App.
I suffer from two specific types of problems - firstly blundering material - which I can work out how to rectify (but can't seem to stop!) and secondly making positional blunders.
This last game was a typical case in point re a positional blunder.
I was playing White and way ahead on the analysis about +7 I think and came to this position (white to play). I played f3 to rid myself of the troublesome knight. That one move saw me lose all of my advantage! The analysis says better was b4 - I can see the line in the analysis which via b4 ends up attacking the knight and bishop (the latter of which was causing me problems in my KS attack) but I can't see why b4 is so much better than f3. Can anyone explain in words of one syllable why b4 was so much better?
Is it the case that I will get better at seeing these positional blunders over time or is it that I am suffering 'positional blindness' which no amount of practice and training will be able to improve?
All thoughts welcome :0)
Regards
lichess.org/analysis/standard/r2qk1r1/ppp1bp2/n1bpp3/7N/3P2n1/2P1P1B1/PP1N1PP1/R2QKB1R_w_KQq_-
I am new to chess and Lichess - playing games against my MasterSoft app on my ipad which I then save in Lichess and create studies of all my games with my comments after each game (I play one long game per day and analyse afterwards). I have been playing a few months and am around 1100 on the App.
I suffer from two specific types of problems - firstly blundering material - which I can work out how to rectify (but can't seem to stop!) and secondly making positional blunders.
This last game was a typical case in point re a positional blunder.
I was playing White and way ahead on the analysis about +7 I think and came to this position (white to play). I played f3 to rid myself of the troublesome knight. That one move saw me lose all of my advantage! The analysis says better was b4 - I can see the line in the analysis which via b4 ends up attacking the knight and bishop (the latter of which was causing me problems in my KS attack) but I can't see why b4 is so much better than f3. Can anyone explain in words of one syllable why b4 was so much better?
Is it the case that I will get better at seeing these positional blunders over time or is it that I am suffering 'positional blindness' which no amount of practice and training will be able to improve?
All thoughts welcome :0)
Regards
lichess.org/analysis/standard/r2qk1r1/ppp1bp2/n1bpp3/7N/3P2n1/2P1P1B1/PP1N1PP1/R2QKB1R_w_KQq_-