How to stop making stupid blunders?

No matter how many puzzles I do, I keep making blunders like

read books maybe

What books though

Think before you move.

In speed chess, these blunders are all pretty reasonable. There's nothing absurd about them. You can expect these even from masters.

But I played rapid chess.

I am sure I have seen magnus blunder, so have realistic goals!

Follow this advice (which I think I first heard from Dan Heisman, the famous teacher): with every move you make, do the sanity check - ask yourself, "is the move I'm about to make totally insane?".

In practice, that means choosing your move but pausing for two seconds before making it to check that you're not moving your piece to a threatened square, that you're not about to move a pawn when your queen (or some other piece) is en prise or that you're not going to do something irrelevant when your opponent is threatening mate or something almost a drastic.

If you do this sanity check with every single move, your blunders will drop very quickly, and your rating will almost certainly go up quickly. Getting better at chess involves much more - but this is an essential start to your journey. Good luck.

BTW, the sanity check also helps you make game-winning moves not only by reducing blunders but spotting stronger moves than the one you've chosen: "am, I about to move a pawn when my opponent's queen/rook/minor piece is under threat?" "

10|0 is still blitz in OTB, and realistically is still a pretty fast control however you look at it. And in even longer games, people will just overlook some things from time to time.

Check these 2 out:

These guys are IMs, so very very good players.

Even super GMs blunder. Caruana hung a rook against Giri in classical chess, so it is inevitable from time to time. We are not machines, only humans.

Isn't it realistic? It should be totally possible for a human[in standard time control] to not blunder. I am just asking how. If you pull up a master game, it almost certain that it won't have blunders as absurd as the ones I make on a daily basis. This is making me go insane now.

That is not very nice. On top of it, this is the case where 600 rated player is telling 1 900 rated player to get good. It has to be said that it doesn't really make sense to do so.

Theoretically, yes, one shouldn't blunder when given enough time, but in practice, we are only humans, and even strong players will blunder from time to time.

Nobody is perfect, even in very big classical games. Nepo blundered multiple times against Magnus in their match for the world title, in basically the slowest form of classical chess around.

Here is the rook blunder:
And this guy is more or less the second best player during Magnus Carlsen's reign.

It's true, everyone blunders from time to time, but these guys blunder like 0.01% of the time and I blunder like 99.9% of my games. If I think about every move, I lose the game on time. If I don't think about every move, I lose the game due to a preposterous blunder. I just need a method/thinking system/Rule/whatever anti-blunder system you have/ so that these blunders can be sensed and avoided. I understand that this is inevitable, but what is evitable is to lower your blunder %, and this is exactly what I am asking for.

Both of those numbers are nonsense, and you know it.

It is also not realistic to expect yourself to be on the same level as the best players in the world. Those guys have studied chess all day, every day, for decades. Have you?

You are being too hard on yourself. If you blundered that much, you would never get to 1 900. I suspect you had a rough patch recently and are feeling bad as a result. Hang in there, it will be ok in the end.

As for the method, I can't really help you too much, because you are playing shorter games than myself, and you are higher rated anyway, so I wouldn't be much help.

I try to not blitz out moves and blunder in that manner (though it can still happen), but in 10|0, that might not be possible in many cases.

The right way, I feel, is keep improving in chess, keep playing, analyzing games, doing your best to improve time management and it should pay off in the long run.

But sometimes you will still make mistakes, it is just the nature of the game.

I neither stated nor implied that I expect myself to be on the same level as the best players in the world. You might have gotten the idea from me comparing myself to the people @nklristic sent, but it's just because I wanted to state that the frequency of the blunders of those players is exponentially low, and that these videos only their rarest blunders. But, I wanted to highlight the fact that I make blunder almost every game and was asking ways to fix this issue. Also, these numbers were made-up but it's just exaggeration and meant to be not taken literally.

Simple! Just stop playing chess altogether. Boom, blunders eradicated. (Although, replacing them with existential dread might not be an improvement...)

Just channel your inner Spock. Think logically, act decisively. Or, you know, blame it on a momentary lapse of concentration like Kirk did. Works every time.

I just gave you a system/method. Read it, apply it. Job done. De nada.