Hi, I started playing chess one year ago, but I find myself blocked at my actual level (from 1800 to 1850 Lichess elo). What would you suggest in order to improve? I thought about playing less and slower, in order to avoid stupid blunders that occur when I'm tired, and analyzing my own matches.
What would you suggest?
I have just looked at your last loss.
You missed the tactic ...Qxe5 Bf4 trapping your queen.
You played too fast.
I know, often I play automatically some moves without considering other players tactics. But aside from playing slower, I wouldn't know how to avoid it
Even the two losses before were due to blunders: in one I just thought I forgot to count how many pieces I lost and how many lost my opponent, and in the other one I lost a queen like an idiot. Still when I don't blunder I tend to win against 1800s, so my chess Elo is pretty stable.
Wich is not ok by me, I'd like to improve
Here is another example
You do not see a simple tactic that cost you your queen.
Again you played too fast.
Maybe you should do tactics puzzles to increase your tactical awareness.
I have been doing nothing than tactics for the last couple of days, as I tend to blunder badly my self as well
I guess that would be some good piece of advice for you aswell.
I recommend
chesstempo.com for that
Thank you for the advice.
I'm doing them, but despite they help me finding combinations to attack, I don't find them so useful in order to prevent blunders or mistakes. I feel like I can't sense when I need to calculate during games, because most of the blunders I do are positions I'd solve easily if they were puzzles.
then just analyze your games
Usually you first have to make a specific blunder to really memorize that mative
When it is your move you look which are your candidate moves, you analyse them and you decide on which move to play. Then do not play it. Picture the move being played and look if you did not miss anything.
i hve th sam epriblem,i ee them inr pbelms,but not in the games-.-