Important Points which can Help you to avoid mistakes in chess!!

In chess, we naturally tend to focus on our own ideas. However, chess is a game between two players and you must consider our opponent’s ideas with the same respect.

In addition to identifying your opponent’s threats and thinking about the consequences of your intended move, before you move, here are 5 more things you can do to help you avoid common mistakes in chess:

1. Try to understand your own mistakes. It’s very useful to review the games you played, particularly the games you lost. Find the mistakes and ask yourself the question “Why did I make this mistake?” By developing a deeper understanding of why you made a mistake you can sensitize your mind to the mistakes you typically make. This understanding can help you avoid similar mistakes in the future. Further down on this page you will find  3 Blunder training exercises which I have shown below, that illustrate typical mistakes chess players make.
2. Practice a disciplined calculation process. A disciplined calculation process is your first defense against making blunders. This includes learning to identify and calculate your opponent’s threats and ideas. On Day 1 of the !0-Day chess Challenge, you will see a few examples of an effective calculation technique.
3. Improve your tactical skill. Insufficient knowledge of tactical patterns and motifs make it much harder to calculate variations effectively. Oversights are also more likely if your tactical skills are not good. Improve your tactical skill by studying the motifs that appear in chess tactic puzzles. By doing this you will increase your “pattern awareness” and be able to spot the common mistakes in chess much sooner.
4. Improve your concentration. Mistakes tend to increase when you become mentally fatigued. You can train your ability to concentrate for prolonged periods of time by challenging yourself with difficult chess puzzles.
5. Improve your visualization skill. The ability to visualize the consequences of the intended moves, before you move the piece, is probably the single most important skill that will help you avoid blunders.

Exercises to Help You Avoid Blunders

Your chess rating is not only an indication of your ability to find good moves. It’s just as much an indication of your ability to avoid mistakes.

Below is 3 exercises that illustrate typical mistakes chess players make. Studying them will help you avoid similar mistakes in your own games.

Blunder Training Exercise #1

Note: The purpose of these exercises is not to challenge you with their difficulty, easy or hard, but to sensitize you to the typical flaws that are present in an untrained, haphazard and inconsistent thinking process.

Black to play. Why would black’s intended move be a mistake?

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Before touching the d-pawn, black should have been aware that moving this pawn would give up control over the e5-square. White takes advantage of this consequence and plays Be5!, pinning the black queen to her king. Suddenly, in the light of losing the queen, black’s idea to advance their passed pawn on the d-file becomes irrelevant. This example proves again that you should always consider how your opponent could take advantage of your move before you move it.

Blunder Training Exercise #2

White wants to play Rc1–with the idea to put pressure on black’s c7-pawn, threatening Qxc7. But why would Rc1 be a mistake?

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In thinking about their own idea (to put pressure on the c7-pawn), white didn’t think about their opponent’s threats. Black was threatening Ne2+, which forks the white king and queen. This serves as a reminder that the first step in your calculation process should be to identify your opponent’s threats before you start to think about your own moves.

Blunder Training Exercise #3

Black wants to neutralize the role of white’s aggressive bishop on c3. The strategy makes sense, but why would 1… Bf6 be a tactical mistake?

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After 1… Bf6, black didn’t foresee the consequences of 2.Bxf6 Rxf6, in that they would give up control of the e7-square. Losing control of the e7-square allows white to play the devastating move 3.Re7, threatening Rxc7 and Qxg7#. An important aspect of visualization is the ability to instinctively notice the subtle consequences of your moves and the tactical ideas that become possible as a result of those consequences. This only improves with dedicated training over time.

The article is written by:

NI, Er.Ravi Kant Tiwari

founder of Ashtapada Chess School,

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