Probably the best article you ever wrote. No cap! This is a mistake that I make very frequently and became aware of recently.
This is a mistake that I don‘t notice in my games, but had recently during my training when I did puzzles and I thought I saw m8, when it turns out there was a different m3 on the board (in which I missed the third move so I stopped calculating). I’ll try to be aware of it in my games from now on, thank you!
I very often in my 45 years of chess choose a move that creates more chaos above the move that simplifies into positional advantage... And I do find it hard to keep it simple. Good article and for me certainly recognizable.
I very often in my 45 years of chess choose a move that creates more chaos above the move that simplifies into positional advantage... And I do find it hard to keep it simple. Good article and for me certainly recognizable.
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I think Dan Heisman said something similar in the Perpetual Chess podcast a while back when he asked how often a game is decided by a brilliancy compared to a blunder. We all want brilliancy's but the reality is far more often that it's a blunder
/mistake that decides the game.
/mistake that decides the game.
As said by Josh Waitzkin himself, "is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set." Josh withdrew from Chess to pursue a black belt in BJJ under Marcelo Garcia. In the 2007 BJJ World Championship, Roger Gracie defeated seven opponents using the very same technique (choke from the back), a technique that is taught in the very first week of every BJJ white belt.
So, keep it simple. Simple and efficient is always better than fancy, even if fancy is efficient, too.
So, keep it simple. Simple and efficient is always better than fancy, even if fancy is efficient, too.
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Very well !!
Great advice particularly as "Time is of the Essence".