Help guys i keep blundering rooks

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Am I just not paying enough attention? I think that's the case. Maybe I'll stop blundering rooks

Just think, with a little less practice and a lot less effort you can be as terrible as me one day! One day i hope to become a professional chess loser. I’m already pretty good at it now. (Actually, if i could just raise my blunder level to yours, I’d be pretty happy.)

Always check your intended move is no blunder before you play it.

Stop blundering Rooks.

take a break 

the answer is to always sac your rooks so you cant blunder them

wut ok

No you won't you'll be disgusted

I’ll have to trust you on this as you are much higher rated than me. I have to remind myself that regardless of how i progress, there will always be someone better than me. (Actually millions better than me.) I’m far from being an expert at this game, but it seems there is always room to grow and improve. I suppose that’s what keeps the game current through hundreds of years. (Rangers Fan?)

yeah. Not those other guys that we will not mention. They belong in the trash can, playing the drums for the rest of eternity. Like that guy from the Greek myth tryna push the rock up the hill.

I suppose so

Sisyphus.

We do not speak “their” name. Good luck in the new stadium. 

I can feel his pain, especially in my chess game. 

I do the same thing. I give up a rook trade too easily, even though with two rooks in an endgame you have a big advantage. Must think of rooks like the game finishers called in the ninth inning to win it.

You are better than me, but personally I like to look at positions that by all means are much too complex for me to realistically solve, find some candidate moves, and calculate every line that looks promising to it’s completion.

Now, this isn’t what one normally does in actual games of chess, but the point is that I’m getting into a habit of calculating, and the calculation of short tactics takes much less conscious effort than it did prior.

In doing this, you will push your calculation ability to it’s limit, because you’re solving puzzles that are targeted toward stronger players.

Although I’ve been inactive in terms of actually playing rated games on Chess.com as of late, I still see a noticeable improvement when it comes to speed and accuracy of my calculation, as well as general awareness of the position, which consequently has prevented me from doing many a stupid move.

I recommend getting a difficult tactics book for this, one where the problems consistently stump you, forcing you to brute force through the problems.

Rooks often go lost because they are outside the "field of vision".  Players often concentrate on a small part of the board, where they are attacking or defending.  Far, far away is that rook on a1, and then bang, a fork or trapped piece combo and he's gone.  So you might benefit from working on checking the whole board. 

I dropped two rooks that way in the same tournament, as an 1800 player (ouch!) so I really feel for you.  It's a very expensive mistake.

The other thing to do is cultivate "danger sense" about the major tactical ideas.  Is my rook on an open diagonal with my king, queen, or other rook?  Does it have escape squares?  Is it a knight fork away from a high-value or undefended target?  If so, that is a tactic (for your opponent) waiting to happen.  Then you can either check carefully each move to see if he can make that tactic happen, or (often better) get your pieces out of that configuration.

Bump. Also "danger levels" would be a Gotham thing.