https://lichess.org/ITZGwaTg
This is a game between two grandmasters. I don't know why but these guys also misses tactics that I miss in blitz too. So what is the difference?
In my opinion, ratings are misleading. Two days ago, I played a crazy chess game where I blundered a move, I swear even 1000 elo blitz players won't blunder. Every time, I blunder these one move blunders, I get the question of" why am I 1900 at blitz?"
The difference between them and you is that they are able to make good moves, too.
Everybody makes mistakes. But some people make more mistakes, and some people always seem to make the last mistake.
https://lichess.org/SoW49AIt
I am also finding good moves. For example, in this game I had a state of mind that he can't checkmate me and he has to give up his queen. That shows I have a prospect of something, like a two move combo which is amazing. Based on my previous chess blunders. Every time I found a good move, something was going on.
"... going from good at tactics to great at tactics ... doesn't translate into much greater strength. ... You need a relatively good memory to reach average strength. But a much better memory isn't going to make you a master. ... there's a powerful law of diminishing returns in chess calculation, ... Your rating may have been steadily rising when suddenly it stops. ... One explanation for the wall is that most players got to where they are by learning how to not lose. ... Mastering chess ... requires a new set of skills and traits. ... Many of these attributes are kinds of know-how, such as understanding when to change the pawn structure or what a positionally won game looks like and how to deal with it. Some are habits, like always looking for targets. Others are refined senses, like recognizing a critical middlegame moment or feeling when time is on your side and when it isn't. ..." - What It Takes to Become a Chess Master by GM Andrew Soltis (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093409/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/review857.pdf
They make tactical mistakes against tough competition experiencing time-trouble, indeed. But they will never make such mistakes against you or me...
Generally speaking, even weaker players attack quite well. But they crack under pressure quite easily. Stronger players defend way better...
Strong players blunder all the time... against each other, because both of them exert pressure on each other by making challenging moves. And particularly in time pressure.
If I or someone of my level were playing one of those GMs, you would see that even in time pressure they play very well, very few mistakes.
This is an advice from a grandmaster named benjamin finegold: he said: the difference between Magnus Carlen and normal player is that, you solve a chess puzzle in 20 seconds and Magnus solves them in 0.1 second. If you want to get stronger at chess just make easy chess puzzles easier. And he also said: coach's will give you a hard puzzles no one can solve. And they think that makes them a better coach. But nobody solves hard puzzles while playing blitz chess.
That's why I'm working on easy chess puzzles. 1800 score and 1700 score chess puzzles. And I don't want to be grandmaster. I don't care about a stupid title like FM or NM or GM or something else. I just want to be 2800 at blitz. These were for kindaspongey
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