mistakes vs. blunders
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Can somebody pls explain the difference?
Nov 27, 2020
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In a nutshell....
A blunder will lose the game for you. While a mistake you can recover from.
A Blunder is a terrible potentially game threatening mistake. A mistake is just a missed opportunity or a move that makes your position slightly less optimal
snoopsie wrote:
Can somebody pls explain the difference?
In the analysis, it's simply a matter of the change in computer evaluation with a blunder defined as a move which leads to a 2 point or more worsening of the evaluation.
Other terms like inaccuracy and mistake bring about lesser declines. I don't remember the exact cutoff for those.
There is some adjustment of the definition once the game evaluation swings decisively.
In computer analysis a blunder is a large decrease in the evaluation. For example if you are ahead 6 pts and then lose your knight, the evaluation will reduce to ahead 3pts and it is a blunder. You may still be winning or have a winning position. It doesn't necessarily mean a mistake that will lose you the game. To mess up a large advantage is still a blunder even if you eventually win the game.
It's the relative cost of the error. A mistake is a smaller error. A blunder often loses the whole game or advantage. A mistake could simply mean you played a sub-optimal move. Even more subtle is an inaccuracy where you aren't getting the most out of a situation.
Blunder= You're basically gone
Mistake= You're kinda gone but not as gone as a blunder
Thanks all!
Nov 28, 2020
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#9
Swar009 wrote:
Blunder= You're basically gone
Mistake= You're kinda gone but not as gone as a blunder
Not necessarily. Lets say you have 2 moves to play.
One move is a mate in one.
One move captures the opponents queen.
If you miss the mate in one, and capture the opponents queen. A chess engine will label that move a blunder. So all this blunder, mistake and stuff can be misleading at times.