Is there any way to improve spotting immediate things like hanging pieces, checkmate in one etc 100% of the time in a second or two?
To my great frustration, I am embarrassingly bad at playing quickly. My problem is that I so often miss obvious moves unless I am given some 1-2 minutes for each move. This also affects calculation, since quite often in critical variations there can be some rather obvious moves that I had not considered.
So tired of losing games like this:
The final move in the game, struck me like lightning from a clear sky. Like the move was illegal or "did not exist" until it was on the board.
This is not an extreme example, or limited to online games. A majority of my losses in FIDE rated OTB games (both classical and rapid) have been like that. A blatantly obvious move for my opponent just did not occur to me fast enough. Of my losses in FIDE rated rapid games, pretty much 100% have been to this type of blindness.
To my great frustration, I am embarrassingly bad at playing quickly. My problem is that I so often miss obvious moves unless I am given some 1-2 minutes for each move. This also affects calculation, since quite often in critical variations there can be some rather obvious moves that I had not considered.
So tired of losing games like this:
The final move in the game, struck me like lightning from a clear sky. Like the move was illegal or "did not exist" until it was on the board.
This is not an extreme example, or limited to online games. A majority of my losses in FIDE rated OTB games (both classical and rapid) have been like that. A blatantly obvious move for my opponent just did not occur to me fast enough. Of my losses in FIDE rated rapid games, pretty much 100% have been to this type of blindness.