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7 Reasons Why You’re Not Improving at Chess

Thank you Noel Studer!This article helped me very much to understand my mistakes

I cant wait for a new article!!
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One reason is missing:

I am simply not smart enough.

Chess requires a specific kind of intelligence. If you lack it, you can try as long as you want. You will not become better as you are. It is painful to realize that your cognitive capacities have limits. But the brain is not so much different from our body. We can run 100 m in 30 seconds, but only a few of us will succeed in doing it in 15 sec, let alone 10 sec. As a 63 year old guy .... forget it. No big deal. We have less problems to accept our limits of the body. Accept your cognitive limits as well. Enjoy your beeing on a plateau since five years. In chess nobody talks about the cognitive limits all of us have. People make money by not mentioning it, giving us the illusion, that everything is possible in the world of chess, if we only pull the right strings. Not so.
There are already a million blogs like this, so why bother making another one?