How to stop blundering? I'm losing games because of a single wrong move.
Also how to attack? The enemy position is always inpenetrable. Each threat is countered. If king's position is indestructible, then it's about winning the pieces, but they are even more maneuverable. I get stuck at the stage when I'm supposed to attack.
Activate move confirmation in your profile.
Play slower.
In the next game you have most of your time uselessly left on your clock.
BLUF: Watch your enemy's move. Defend your pieces. Know your enemy's checks. Calculate.
Just as important as finding a plan is dealing with your opponents plan. Unlike war, when you play chess, you have perfect information about what your opponent is currently doing. They can try to play more flexibly, but at the end of the day, if they want to capture your piece, the piece must be attacked. Pay VERY CLOSE attention to your opponent's move. They know what you want to do and they will try to stop you. Be sure to check if they did a good job trying to stop you before you follow through with any plans you have.
A lot of the time, it's not so easy to spot when a piece is under attack. Your opponents will use tactics to exploit weaknesses. Fortunately, you needn't see EVERY tactic that comes your way. Some good practices can go a long way. "Loose pieces fall off." DEFEND YOUR PIECES. Even if they're not currently under attack, try to defend them or figure out what you're doing with a piece before it comes under attack. KNOW YOUR CHECKS! You KNOW that queen is coming to rain on your parade eventually, make sure she's not going to take out your army when she does decide to stop by.
A concept I personally struggle with is coping with the fact that that every position isn't winnable from either side. I always want to be attacking or trying to set up a mating net, but if my opponent is capable and willing to defend, I'm just losing when my attack fails. I can't offer you too much help with this, but you and I both need to be investing thought into what positions are worth attacking into. If we don't want to lose, at some point we have to be willing to say "okay, this isn't working, I need to go back and defend", or "I don't have enough to follow through with this, perhaps I should let me opponent come at me." Really, the only advice I can give to you on this is calculate. Go through the sequence of captures in your head and ask yourself who the position is better for and why.
Privet.
1) First, you are doing one thing very well. You are playing long classical games to improve. (don't play the fast, bullet type games if you want to improve...that ruins many players wanting to improve.)
2) Watch this video. Your game will take a leap after watching and practicing what you've learned. Watch it, then play a few games. Watch it again, and play some games.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao9iOeK_jvU3) Go over ever game you play, especially the losses and use Stockfish to analyze. You learn best from you mistakes. And learn WHY the computer makes the moves it makes.
4) Finally, just be patient and play a lot of long games. You'll be learning and getting better just by playing.
Best of learning.
for missing pieces under attack, this is going to sound overly simple, but you just have to check. dont rely on randomly noticing it.
you might even have a system. you pick a candidate square to place a piece. check the file to the "north" to see if anything is attacking the square. check the diagonal to the "northwest". go around the clock so to speak, then check for knights. you dont always need to do this, but its especially important in the mid game when positions are complex and a lot of material is on the board.
some people like to imagine chess is amazingly artistic, that good chess players seem to manifest great moves from some magical place. ok, it can be like that, especially at higher levels,..but sometimes chess is also just about self-discipline and responsibility. for example, like a warehouse security guard, at closing time, he will physically go to every entrance and exit and manually check each door is locked. thats not art, its not magic. it doesnt even take being smart. its a simple task. it just takes personal responsibility, not being negligent, and caring enough to do it. even if the guard does the same job for 20 years, and every day the doors are always already locked, he still checks, because thats his job. he doesnt get lazy and think "it always locked, im not going to bother today, im just doing to sit and read my phone". when you leave a queen hanging, its not about art. its just being a bad security guard, you didnt check all the doors. so, be a good, diligent guard and check the doors every time.
another trick that helped me was trying to somewhat correlate the value of a piece with the amount of time i would spend considering if it was ok to move that piece to a square. (because obviously, ok, we cant check every door every move). i.e. piece values being pawn 1, bishop/knight 3, rook 5, queen 9... so, if I would spend 2 seconds on a pawn move, i should be spending at least 18 seconds before moving a queen. this means id have more time to check that i wasnt immediately blundering the queen, but also some time to make sure i wasnt leaving it open to lose her to some forking tactic or something.
Definitely spend more time looking at the board and thinking out loud, "What is his strategy? What's my best move? Sure? What's his best and next move?" What I do is say, "wow, I'm the dumbest person in the world for not seeing that. How did I miss that checkmate? OMG." Then my brain remembers the checkmate, and will look for it in the next game. Then the other thought, "Does this guy think i'm dumb and will fall for that? Of course I see that!" Smile, and keep the tempo in your favor. One side note: I think some players get excited when up material, then forget about the main goal of the game: Checkmate. They are happy to take pieces and then lose on a pretty obvious move. Always stay focused.
Definitely, play slower. Even just go through a checklist every move, Queen, OK; Rook, OK; Bishop, oops under attack, gotta do something.
I've found practicing tactics puzzles in a book helps me, and I think it would anyone, see threats and checkmates, both for attacking and defending.
them games are lost by one wrong or some wrong moves
even being a super GM wont prevent you from making them wrong moves ;)
