Depends on how strong your opponent is.
If you play Harry Hacker from the Midilton chess club with a rating of 1300 you may make a lot of mistakes and win.
If you play a master one mistake will probably finish you.
As you get stronger you will notice a mistake can be very subtle.
I have played games where the balance of the game has totally shifts from a single mistake I make :). Sometimes I am able to recover..either because my opponent fails to see a key move/ or I just played well
well ! depends on you how make a mistake and you know how and when it was
Like said above, depends on strength of player and how serious of a mistake you made. Also mistakes in endgames can cost you the game. Those hurt the worst.
Yes, one mistake can result in you getting checkmated and losing the game.
One of my frequent mistakes consists of chatting too much
1 for my own good
2 to detriment of my chessmate, which latter case I HATE TO HAPPEN if it does and u can't really know .
If you play me you will get away with twenty. Against someone like Petrosian, if you made one, you would probably lose
just like what everyone above me say's, it depends greatly upon the situation on the board at the time the mistake was made. Now against a high rated player a mistake in the end game could be extremely costly yes, but i think a lot of times mistakes in the beginning and mid game can be recovered from. Most of the time however even though you may recover from your blunder you will probably be fighting an uphill battle. One that will not be easily won even if you have a chance at victory.So in summation, it is better to study so that you will make fewer mistakes. then you won't have to worry so much about recovering from them. But always be prepared cause you never know.
it depends, if you make an inaccuracy, you can fight back from it and win against most if you play the rest of the game perfectly, but a blunder will often throw the game if you have a competent opponent.
The worst thing that can happen is to make a mistake against a strong player at the opening stages of a game. You know that you are going to lose as a result and that its going to take a couple of hours to get there.
iF U DON'T MAKE MISTAKES U CAN'T BE MAKING ANYTHING !
Shak Mah !
It quite improves your game if you go through your games after they're over to see if you can spot the mistakes and to see what you could have done differently: play back to the situation where you made the mistake, think of a better move and play the game forward on your on for a while to see how the nuances of the game take a different course.
And it would be preferable to go through the games you lost. No need to dwell over your victories although those games most probably contain bad moves as well.
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake."
~Tartakower
I think roughly four fifths of all chess moves ever made were probably mistakes. Imagine two perfect players that played nothing but the objectively perfect moves on every turn. The games would probably make no sense at all, with some 200 move long variation being the basis for each move and every game ending in a draw.
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake."
~Tartakower
I'm not one to argue with Tartakower, but I have to argue with Tartakower.
This all depends on your definition of 'mistake'. You could be a queen and a rook up, and blunder away your queen. In my opinion, this is always a mistake. However, you then checkmate your opponent with your king and rook. You made the last mistake, and yet you still claim the victory!
When I done a silly mistake it seems to me that I have done a suicide attempt.
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake."
~Tartakower
I'm not one to argue with Tartakower, but I have to argue with Tartakower.
This all depends on your definition of 'mistake'. You could be a queen and a rook up, and blunder away your queen. In my opinion, this is always a mistake. However, you then checkmate your opponent with your king and rook. You made the last mistake, and yet you still claim the victory!
Ahhhh, if you checkmate him, HE is the one who made final mistake.
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake."
~Tartakower
I'm not one to argue with Tartakower, but I have to argue with Tartakower.
This all depends on your definition of 'mistake'. You could be a queen and a rook up, and blunder away your queen. In my opinion, this is always a mistake. However, you then checkmate your opponent with your king and rook. You made the last mistake, and yet you still claim the victory!
Ahhhh, if you checkmate him, HE is the one who made final mistake.
Not so, for checkmate with a king and rook is a forced combination, so he could play perfectly and still be mated.
Can one mistake cause a person to eventually lose a game? Or does it take a string of mistakes? Can you recover from a mistake?