How did you eventually stopped dropping pieces

Hi!

How did you eventually stopped dropping pieces? I constantly do this under time pressure. I also under protect and miss a lot of tactics :). Does it just come naturally with years of play?

Please share your experience regarding this issue. Was there anything that helped you stopped doing it? Like some advice/trick you followed? How do you quickly scan the board for dangers and evaluation of safety of your pieces? One bye one?

@ivobb
Are you talking about time pressure as in the end of a slow game? Or as in blitz/bullet games?

I apologize for not being thorough. With time pressure I mean playing a simple 10min rapid game. I start blundering and missing all kinds of things even at beginning/openings. If i'd took the time to process everything piece by piece I'd run out of it by the 15th move I guess. :) It's obvious if you look at my games. I just miss capturing a piece in my last one. Got lucky in the end...

Been playing chess more seriously for like what? half a year? I can't let my seven year old beat me eh? :)

I blunder a lot playing online too. I guess it's harder to see he whole board than in real life.

If you Google "climbing the rating ladder", then you should see a YouTube playlist by a John S... where he plays against progressively higher rated players.
If you watch it then you will see that blundering a piece doesn't stop so soon. Hopeless for our rating.
In fact, if you study Grandmaster games then you notice that even they sometimes blunder a piece or a pawn though it's probably more often than not from not seeing a complicated tactic or hard to see move several moves beforehand.
Someone told me that obvious blunders stops and normal chess starts at around 1800-2000. Good luck achieving that.

I think you can't hope your 7 year old to not beat you. Just because he/she is so young means they learn a lot quicker.

I'm not a coach, so I have no idea how effective this can be, but...
You could ask yourself a few questions every time you move a piece, like is my piece protected now? How many times it is protected? Or what squares that were controlled by that piece before are no longer under control? Etc. You can do this for your opponent's moves as well.
You could pick a random position in a random game and try to spot unprotected pieces.
Solving tactics should also help you.

You can't really stop 'dropping' pieces per se. You can minimize it by playing a lot and developing a natural feel for danger on the board though.

Do this in each move in many of your games:
What pieces can my opponent take? (This includes pieces that are protected enough)
What are the checks that my opponent can make?
What pieces in your position is undefended.

Keep doing this and soon you would automatically know and soon get better over time. And like what what #5 as said, "Climbing Up the Rating Ladder" is a extremely excellent playlist/series to watch, it is worth watching and improved my skills a ton. An another option you can also do is to study endgames a lot, like a ton. Studying and mastering endgames can benefit your style of your opening and the future of your middle game because you would know what to do in the end game. In my opinion and experience, the lichess puzzels doesn't really help me that much. But its still a good way to set your mind into chess mode and sharpens your tactics at times.

Also a another way to improve your chess skills is to stop playing bullet games or at least reduce the amount of times you play bullet, I play bullet games myself a lot in the past which caused me to become bad, bullet games are addicting and fun but wont benefit.

It is a good way to play long games like 15+15 classical rated games, take your time, rapid is too stressful without time increment.

Thanks people! I appreciate the feedback.
I will watch that "climbing the ladder" series and follow your other advice as much as I can. I guess it's really all in the time. Like every new thing you want to master. Takes time.

I was just wondering anyone has some special tip for spotting different tactical patterns. For example .. I watched a video from a series "beginner to master" where author explains how he uses colors to spot possible targets in a forks with a knight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGKPxJ5NYI&t=3263s&list=PLQsLDm9Rq9bHKEBnElquF8GuWkI1EJ8Zp&index=28

Was wondering if any of you uses anything similar for spotting these kind of things for tactics. Thus making less blunders as soon as possible. :)

I guess subject should also be how to increase tactical awareness..