Blundering way less, but Inaccuracies are killing me.

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mrizzo14

I think you need to play with longer time controls (30 minutes or daily). I looked at your two most recent games (both 10 minute games) and you hung your queen on move #7 in one and lost your queen to a discovered attack on move #18 in the other. Not trying to be rude, but I think blunders are still your biggest problem rather than innacuracies.

sholom90

Nice job with the improvement already!

I second mrrizzo's comment: play some longer games.  It looks like you played well over a dozen games today -- you should try playing fewer but longer.  Hanging pieces gets reduced with experience, but, especially for a new person, it's hard to see it quickly like one must do in a rapid (or faster) game.

1g1yy

I'm very new also and I second the opinion to avoid timed games. I have no business even trying to play a 10-minute game. There simply is not enough time for me to see what's going on. This game is not second nature to me so I have to think and it's going to be awhile before fast games are of any benefit to me. I have tried them and I make mistakes that are absolutely first day of your life chess type mistakes. Things so Elementary there is no sense even saving the game to analyze. Analyzing would mean I would like to see what I was thinking and correct it. But these are obviously errors that have no thinking involved.

Moonwarrior_1

Take your time and go through a checklist before each move.

 

1. look for Checks 

2. look for captures

3. Look for threats, say a piece threading to do something next turn.

 

doing this will help you greatly. Also focus on puzzles which helps you reckonize things such as discovered attacks forks and such.

magipi
acoldtoe wrote:

The improvement is due to committing way less blunders, learning a couple different opening ideas for white and black, and studying the most simple checkmate patterns.
Despite these improvements, I still lose lots of games, which is fine, but they are often due to the accumulation of inaccurate moves slowly killing my position. Instead of the huge mistake costing me the game, it is these compounding mistakes that have been my downfall.

Your analysis is completely false. If inaccuracies were your main problem, you'd be rated much-much-much higher. I checked a few a your games, and they are blunderfests (despite your claim that you "commit way less blunders".

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/6572892744

This game is 15 moves long, and in it you hang a rook, then a bishop, then a knight, then a queen, then a knight. You seriously should just forget the word "inaccuracy" altogether. Instead, concentrate on 1-move blunders and simple forks.