7 MOST COMMON Chess Mistakes

ladies and gentlemen when you first begin your chess career you are going to be making a lot of mistakes and when you're going to research the most common types of mistakes that beginners and intermediate level players make you're going to hear things like you hang your queen too much you don't develop your pieces you don't focus on the center well in this video i'm going to go above and beyond that by far i'm going to give you what in my opinion are the seven most important mistakes that you are making that are preventing you from gaining elo consistently and since this is gonna be a really fun video it deserves a better shirt than this so much better okay so timestamps are gonna be on the video player let's get into it the first mistake that you are making is that you are trading everything and if you're not guilty of this well most people at this level are so let's talk a little bit about what i'm talking about let's talk a little bit about what i'm talking about wow fantastic english so e4 e5 you've definitely had games like this knight f3 knight c6 you play a little bit of this all right one pawn has been traded now black decides to trade a knight and then black decides to trade a queen and you're like yeah well whatever you know let's do it and then you go here and then they go here and now they're gonna trade this right oh my goodness oh no and you know by the end of like the first 12 moves half the armies are gone just gone like without even thinking about what the heck is happening so here's the thing trading pieces in chess has multiple elements to it the first element of which is which pieces are supposed to be traded depending on the opening that you are playing so the opening that we just saw was the scotch this is the scotch opening with knight takes d4 knight as with white playing knight takes d4 uh this is a really bad move for black normally in the scotch black plays knight to f6 or bishop to c5 there's like really nothing else there's a couple of other tricky lines but those are the two main lines because the point of the opening is not to just trade all the pieces the point of the opening is to develop all your pieces in a coordinated way and that sometimes means keeping tension because both of them are protected neither side wants to make the exchange because then they just remove one of their attackers from the game this would be okay for black but normally black wants to put a knight to attack a queen in the center they can't do that anymore and if black plays c5 that's actually a really big weak weakness and we'll talk a little bit about the other common mistakes white is already about plus 1.5 here after simply retreating because black has just made this really big weakness in the center of the board the knight will plant there white will develop the bishops either castle short or long and this is just a much better position for white but the second that white then trades queens now black is like doing very well because black is basically playing white now you've traded queens in a way that you you just gave them a lead in development now black has a night out you have nothing you bring a night out now i'm pitting you now there's even more stuff here like bishop takes this i'm not so sure about this this is not a very good trade and in general i would say uh this bishop for knight thing like for example you know just bringing the bishop out and then taking over here unless you are damaging the structure or opening the king don't do it don't trade the bishop for the night unless you are damaging the structure and you have a logical follow-up or you are weakening the king otherwise it just doesn't make any sense in this case there kind of is a point you do win a pawn so it does make sense but white just wins another pawn and of course this is just a terrible move there is no need to give away the bishop for the knight it is obviously better for white to play a move like bishop to d4 to maintain two bishops and then kick the night out and then castle and then make sure that you know you don't lose this pawn don't just move this bishop out and lose this pawn and white is about plus one here according to the engine just very clear advantage why bishop pair better pawn structure so three three per side so trade stem from openings in and they are founded in logic they are rooted in logical exchanges for example another opening the london right this is the the notorious london well in the london system this trade of bishops is something that black actually really wants if you trade like this even pawn takes is completely okay for black because now your general plan of putting your knight here is not possible anymore yes black damages the structure but the pawns are all together so you know maybe black can use that double pawn to push in the center so what you do here is you try to trade on your own terms you slide back that's actually one of the reasons you do this because if they take you they just open up your rook and this knight to e5 is still very much a plan you take toward the center your pawns are together and your rook is open and in a perfect world if black is not careful you will just launch a very devastating attack on their king and you won't castle so you try to make exchanges on your own terms stemming from openings but you know and if you want to go a little bit more in depth on when to trade and why to trade and how to trade you got to watch a video on that i have a video on that and so do other people there's a lot of videos on youtube on when to trade pieces that's stuff that you gotta look up and you gotta understand it coming from your own openings here's a great example you know white's got a really nice position here if it was white to move white would play queen to d3 line up a battery over here and try to get rid of this knight either with a pawn or with the knight this knight is very powerful so the bet one of the best moves here for black is to try to trade this relatively passive bishop this bishop is never going to break through this ever so bishop here to maybe even take and there might be a situation where bishop takes knight right away is the best way to go you trade off your bad bishop and then you move the knight out of the way this is protected by virtue of just pawn to g6 nice little barricade there and again bishop is covered by a ton of light squared pawns as a little barrier and this knight can rotate out to the other side of the board at the same time if black wants to trade nights like night for night yeah that would be a fantastic trade for black because you've removed such an active piece and all you got to do is just not get mated which we will talk about later so there's an art to trading pieces the right way you have to have a concrete reason to do so okay don't just be swapping pieces left and right trust me and it's going to be better for your long-term improvement don't put abstract concepts behind traits either oh i always trade my queen because i'm afraid of getting mated or i'm afraid of losing my queen what if a world champion has never said that you shouldn't say that either all right let's move to mistake number two this is something that i've decided to call fake training all of us are guilty of this we're actually not even gonna use the board a whole lot but i will begin with this fake training is the art of convincing yourself you are doing productive legitimate things to improve at something not just chess related by the way mastering this ability beyond chess is probably what we all need fake training is something like this you like my videos you see a sale you buy the e4 course you study the vienna for a little bit knight c3 get really excited you win a couple of blitz games you're like oh and then you don't study the rest of the course how many of you have courses that you just don't study because you're like i don't have time or this or that you have to actually study that like you have to set aside time and use the resources whether they're free or paid for and actually put in the work if you study the vienna you need to be left alone and be able to explain everything to me right now i can explain everything to you if knight to f6 you have the option of the classical vienna or you can play the vienna gambit and now i would be able to tell you all the main lines the best move and only move is d5 and within the main line there is obviously knight c3 there is f5 and knight c6 those are all the main moves you have to be able to recite that you have to be able to get to the board and not just not know stuff because otherwise you're fake training that's the courses element the same goes for you know if you get a g6 course with black or the carl con course you're like well i know what to do if they play the exchange i don't really remember what to do here what do you mean you don't remember it you have it it's in your possession so go learn it and like how i always lose when they play this well are you even playing it correctly are you playing the right response so that's the opening state right but we also fake train in general because you might say well i'm playing blitz every day and and what you play 20 blitz games a day because you have time you go like 50 sometimes 45 wins sometimes 55 win are you actually learning anything well no not really and the other thing that we do a lot is we will study tactics that's the other thing that we do let's just pause the board here for a moment let's talk you and me we will do tactics puzzles have a way of getting us really hyped because a lot of people have massive puzzle ratings but if i slap you on the neck and tell you hey pay attention you're winning in this position well probably you're going to find it right but you can't there's no such thing in a in a game live game with the anxiety the you know the the blood pumping the heart rate going up you have to actually be able to locate these things in game time so you have to put it all together that's what i mean by fake training this is not going to be like a massive you know chess analysis section i wanted to show you the openings there but the other thing is when you're solving those puzzles what you need to do is actually understand you need to put the concepts you're seeing into words like conceptualize it mark it down in your brain so that your brain will pick up on it later top chess players i'm not a top chess player but even title players like myself in a live game we're not sitting there going uh what is my mental uh what did i internalize about this concept no you program your brain almost like an ai and it just it just picks it up it just sees it pattern recognized boom and your brain just will latch on to a move but stop fake training stop convincing yourself you're actually putting in the work whether it's free or paid content tactics end games openings if you can't recite it to someone then you don't know it all right let's go to mistake number three okay this one is at on an elementary level pretty basic but i'm adding more to it and i want to call this the one mover yes a one mover is you just move your queen and you lose it bye all right good night but there is more to it than this i want you to think about this in three different ways number one you play a move which creates a very simplistic threat and moves your piece out of position then you do not even think where the opponent's piece is gonna go that drives me nuts oh my goodness for example take this position black is slightly better here strategically because white has pawns that are you know blocking in the bishop potential weakness in the center of the board but if this is a game between two one thousands it doesn't matter but here white plays this move knight to e5 because it's a nice move the knight moves to the middle and attacks the queen must be a good move but there is not even a thought behind those eyeballs about where the queen is gonna go you don't even you don't even think about that like well it's gonna move what do you think they're just gonna leave it there that's how people think they're like well if they don't move it i'll take it what what maximum danger to yourself so the queen could go to d6 the queen could go to c7 e8 b7 a8 and a lot of us will i don't know they'll move it somewhere then we'll figure it out no the the best players in the world know the best moves for both sides not just for themselves where's the queen gonna go it's gonna go to c5 of course and then you get hit with queen c5 and you go oh my god i'm so dumb how did i not see that you weren't even looking for it in the first place you discard a move like 95 as you get better because you start asking yourself can they attack me in any way oh yeah yeah they can all right yes actually now in a 30 minute game i need like someone rated 8 900 to already see 95 queen c5 in a three minute game even a 1200 blunder95 queen c5 because the board is big and it's a three minute game all right it happens so the time control does matter but these one movers just these empty one move threats you guys gotta stop doing them and i have more examples of course here's an example um this is uh this is slightly different but this isn't just like a one move loss uh this is very like a custom position from a game that was sent to me by subscriber um here i believe it's black to move and black is equal on material slightly worse because this bishop is better than this knight but plays this move g5 now on a surface not a bad move attacks the queen right can't be that bad and it's defended the problem is it drastically weakens the king the queen slides forward and now it's excruciatingly difficult to get rid of these two pieces because what are you gonna do if you offer a queen trade i take on g5 so black was like well i want to offer a queen trade so i gotta guard this first so two pawn moves that weaken the king obviously all started by just a random pawn attack on the queen and now white played this which almost looks like a blunder because there's knight f3 check and you win the rook but because you allowed the queen in there is this move you cannot take because you're pinned now i take with check and i just play a five and you lose you just lose you cannot prevent f6 and mate you gotta sack your queen it's impossible f6 i take your king gg so that's it the game's over there's nothing black can do at all there's no way to get to this king if this check was possible that would be great but it's not um and uh this is game over that's it the game is completely lost so one move caused all the problems there was no way in for white at all i mean if you if you ventured off here like i don't know uh let's just say like queen h6 okay and then there would be knight f3 and i could trade queens with you which i would love but because you just play one very aggressive move that's it your one mover is gone you've completely damaged your structure in your position you have a terrible position on the board now so this happens all the time here's another example um and this is something i like to call continuity this is um as i started introducing a concept called continuity uh it's similar on the one mover kind of thing but it's remembering how a position is all tied together as a move is made so white just played queen to b3 the queen was here it just got attacked it goes here and attacks b7 you're like i'm getting that pawn if they don't see it they play over here you're like well i don't know what that does i mean i guess i could take but uh i don't want to lose the bishop pair because you know you've heard the bishop here so you're like all right i'm just going to take on b7 and you just blunder a one mover for your opponent they just take boom one move you're like oh my god how did i not see that you tunnel visioned asterisk very important term you you tunnel vision you were like well i'm going to take b7 you just completely forgot what you should have done is probably take take and then take on b7 and by the way even that's not the best move uh apparently the engine here really likes this move f5 locking the bishop out and actually just threatening to win it which is very difficult to see especially if you're not like 16 1700 that's a very tough move it looks like it does nothing but this bishop is completely locked away and you know that's how you introduce more advanced concepts when you take on b7 there might be rook b8 and then now they're going to win this pawn and that's but that's the nature of a one mover you tunnel vision on your plan you completely don't realize what your opponent is trying to accomplish and well you pay the price and last but not least continuity oh my favorite you have this position white is definitely a little bit better here i would say um maybe even a lot better because these pawns are so weak now if i set this position up for you and perhaps you're looking at this and you go well i can give a mate there if i have some protection protection is good very important um you play bishop e4 and they take your rook and now you're down a rook and then they gotta get back and defend this and that's very doable i mean they can even do it like this and that's actually why you have to look at maximum danger for your opponent because now they attack and they defend and that's very bad for you that knight just does the trick that's something called continuity just realizing what is affected on the chessboard okay and if you go here you stop guarding your rook and max danger boom you hang a rook congratulations and by the way this can happen in like multiple ways if i just edit this board a tiny bit um like i'll do something like this um and i'll move this king over to g7 let's say in this position you're like well i can push my pawn and attack the knight that looks nice i'm gonna do that oops oops oops oops continuity the board changes every move you make so be focused on your opponent's pieces draw little arrows with your eyeballs from your opponents pieces to your pieces to empty squares that is going to get you on the right track and have you stop making these erroneous one-move decisions that weaken your position that have no long-term benefit and stop just making random night jumps piece jumps to just attack things and not think about where they're going to move let's go to mistake number four so this one is a little bit more general but it's you making the same kind of mistake over and over there are many kind of ways to do this number one could be your openings you're just spamming the same openings without reviewing the lines reviewing the concepts and you're not getting yourself an optimal situation and what i mean by that is um lucy for example love her dearly my wonderful girlfriend she plays e4 and she doesn't do a whole lot of work on her vienna but she has gotten so many positions like this she's about 900 blitz about a thousand blitz 1100 rapid and she's just completely winning in the opening she's complete this is this is known to be completely winning for white but she will not convert the advantage or sometimes she will not even consistently take this she'll play a move like knight to f3 in this position which is not the right move um the same can be said like for example if they take you know she's played e5 before and uh there's queen h4 on the cards so you have to play knight f3 which she does pretty consistently now but for a while she would be playing d4 and simply allowing queen to h4 so you need to build consistency through your openings you cannot just be playing incorrect openings even getting totally winning positions you have to build upon previous games um what i you know for example uh in the scandinavian defense if we flip this right we're just gonna flip this real quick for black um i've seen this happen maybe five or six times in in lucy's games when she plays the scandinavian you know she's doing her scandinavian throws her queen over there plays pawn to c6 so the queen can come to safety develops you know white attacks the bishop so she trades and then in this position they play bishop to g5 the most advanced players will obviously see this and i've actually used this same example uh in uh in another video um and it will just not happen and i and i was always thinking to use this as an example in a video because i guarantee your opponents are making repetitive mistakes in openings that you were playing within the first 10 moves and you are not punishing for them for it that's what i mean by the same mistake it happens in the openings um now another very common same mistake and i hear this all the time i'm going to flip this to white's perspective real quick is hanging the queen it's kind of a meme but how many times do we just hang the queen in the middle of a game it's ridiculous you have to stop doing it and it's honestly not the most difficult thing in the world what you know one day you're just playing a sicilian defense just improvising you don't know your openings too well you know you're kind of supposed to fight for the center okay you trade not i don't love that trade there's double pawns but it's not the best thing in the world now you immediately undouble the pawns how does that make any sense okay now you're like well i can develop knight bishop or rook but it's time to move my queen out all right d5 now you just trade you don't even hesitate i don't really love that move i don't know why you would do that but okay pretty equal move your rook out bishop and then here the devil on your shoulder is like hey what if i somehow get to g7 like you know boom boom or like boom boom mate okay uh-huh queen knight d2 oh the queen comes out okay so you could just take on f6 right and that's this and you're just a pawn up king's wide open great position but in your mind you were like well i can take and this won't have any sort of defense right because i'll go queen g3 then i'll take they can't take back oh i'm so smart boom and then this happens and you wanna just throw every possession you have out the window every single one straight out the window onto the street you wanna break your phone you're like how did i do that again because it's something that i already mentioned in this video draw little arrows from your opponent's pieces onto yours like this it's not that complicated like this bishop has no vision this way so you're looking over here the queen look patrol patrol done and at some point you got to stop making the same mistake over and over again whether it's in the opening whether it's poor time management which we will talk about later whether it's one move blunders you all do this everyone's guilty of it there is a culprit behind the madness that there is not you're not making 400 different types of mistakes it's probably pretty consistently what you're doing maybe you're getting overwhelmed by players who play extremely fast you get frustrated when you play people who trade all the pieces you're not playing your openings correctly but it's the same thing over and over again let's go to mistake number five i just said i was going to tell you about time management when you think time management and chess you think play too slow lose on time or whatever and everybody has a different philosophy when it comes to time management some people say i'm going to play a 10 minute game and if i get a winning position but i lose on time i'm going to be happy because i got a winning position why are you happy that's what i never understood like on the one hand sure you probably played a little bit better than your opponent by accuracy but they beat you on the clock chess oftentimes is a game of efficiency as much as it is a game of playing the best move at the best moment the truth is if you're a 1000 rated player trying to improve you got to throw out the idea that you're going to play a perfect game stop no you're not and that's okay you need to play better than your opponent that's it you got to make a little bit less mistakes and you got to punish mistakes when they become available which is why you're watching this video in the first place and thank you by the way what are you like 20 minutes 25 minutes into the video now i don't know because i have to edit it together i take breaks in the middle i don't know anyway let's say you're playing with white and you play like a three minute game you play e4 you're like all right i know i take the center all right that's kind of a weird move let me think for a little bit opponents playing every move in one second by the way like borderline pre-moving bishop two e3 boom boom like i'm gonna take more space with my pawns and finish my development i don't know what they're doing and now you start thinking now you got like 220 on the clock they got like 255 okay you think for a while because you don't know what to do you have so you have an overload of options literally any move in this position with white short of like a complete giveaway of a piece is good anything you do doesn't matter what rook you move why you got much more space this is a very non-standard development it doesn't really make any sense this knight has no fight in the center at all you can already begin to trample black you can begin fighting for this you spend like 20 seconds here because you just don't know what to do you're nervous you're like oh my god a couple of more moves go by you know black actually spots that this has to be defended uh you keep thinking you know they just keep playing solidly and before you know it they have 240 you have one you have like a minute on the clock and you end up losing the game because you panic they you know they probably play something stupid they you know maybe you like slide your queen over later on and then you hang it you're like oh my god this is what i'm gonna say depending on the time format that you play let's say you play three minute set time goals all right if you're playing a longer game you have a lot of time to mess around so for time management what i would say is if you're playing shorter time control you gotta move just move and make a little note i'm not going to trail my opponent on the clonk by more than 20 seconds it does not matter i will play solid simple moves when i don't know what to do in a position like this i will play a3 i will slide a piece over a couple of squares i won't change the position so much and and and that's how you got to do it because at some point they're going to slow down that's just the truth or they're going to do something really stupid which is when you need to be on high alert that's where the tactics training comes in that's not the fake training that we talked about diligent tactics training spotting the patterns immediately that's tough but it's it's part of the game and the truth is playing um with these little time barriers in mind is extremely important i don't do a whole lot of it uh when i stream because i'm talking to the chat i'm frequently much lower on time and i'm trying to get better at it in classical chess but sometimes it's really difficult that's just the truth but there's a reverse to this ladies and gentlemen sometimes you can play too fast and i don't know why you would play a 30 minute game and 25 moves into it be only down to 28 minutes what are you doing i have seen people send me games where on move 25 they have 28 30 on the clock they're down like a piece like yo why would you play a 30 minute game and play that fast what is the point of that so you need to find a comfortable time interval that you enjoy playing ten minute three minute whatever and you need to play efficiently don't let that gap of time get super far hold yourself accountable you might lose rating in the short term but in the long run you're going to get sharper and you're not just going to tank all your time and still play a bad move i'm going to give you an example of this one of my one of my subscribers trees eric had a game recently where around move 25 if we just take a look at this position um he's up he's up big actually in fact a little bit later they traded some pieces he's up two points of material here but it's a lot more than that the rooks are flying in on both sides to crash on h2 this barrier prevents white from getting any counter play the knight is about to be lost and after knight c5 take take i know you can't see the time because this is analysis but in this position black has about 150 on the clock white has about two minutes more so like 340 150 minute and 50 seconds for black now the way you win this is you actually don't even focus down this way you rotate the queen over this is devastating because you can't prevent this anymore if the rook comes in like desperately trying to defend everything now you can sneak into the back rank and the king has nowhere to run the king officially has no squares so black is completely winning and white will need to lose the queen and everything but in the game eric spent some time and traded rooks and allowed this little defensive formation and then here with the low time decided to bail out into an end game trading queens totally winning love the strategy great strategy but only has about 75 seconds on the clock remaining because he couldn't find a way through not a bad strategy i actually kind of like it here's the problem when you're on high alert with low time look where the counter play is going to be this bishop can win any of these pawns if you allow it because they're all light square pawns and which of white's sponsors are the most dangerous not this one this one and this one this one's very close this one's pretty close to promotion maybe the apon so your king needs to hang out over here and your rook needs to find the fastest possible way to eat everything king d7 is not a bad move i don't like that let the king hang back let the rook do the damage but because you have no time you're just you're flying right you're just trying to play moves like why is the king running out let the rook do the damage the rook is the most powerful piece on the board right now and look what happens he allows this then which pawn should he take the pawn that's going to become a queen or the pawn that's not going to become a queen takes the wrong pawn he's still winning then he plays rook h3 that's just that's like a check like oh my god i don't know what to do i don't have a lot of time gives another check and takes the wrong pawn again and now he's got a big problem and he's got only one way to stop this and it's with his rook he has to stop it with the rook somehow like rook h1 rook c1 and instead he just instinctively moves the king because he's been moving into land game and now he's losing and now he's completely lost and now he's down a queen and then well that's even an awful move i mean just queen b8 picks this up but both players are kind of low on time and then boom that's it bishop b7 is made in one and you get so mad when you throw games like this but you have to manage your time better okay either too fast or too slow figure it out mistake number six coming up this one is also not groundbreaking uh but it's a concept i like to call selfish brain we just completely don't pay attention to our opponents sometimes in chess games and like what they want and what they're doing you'll notice that throughout this video i've actually kind of drawn attention to that in the form of one movers like when you try to play a move and don't pay attention to what your opponent wants but this one is a little bit more like your opponent just made a move and you don't even stomp and ask yourself what they want like they want to mate you in fact if you're a strong player this is just hypothetically in your mind anyway the other thing you're thinking about is will my opponent trade pieces and try to advance this pawn will my opponent try to play down the middle will they try to sneak around and get these pawns it's a constant thought process of what do they want they go here you play oh oh my god i've been training my whole life for night forks kabam i'm so smart and then you hear the chess.com little window pops up and says oh closed game you almost had it and you're like but that's completely your own fault who are you even mad at smack yourself maybe what is come on it's right there just prevent it prevent mate push the pawn i don't know push this pawn push this pawn trade queens i don't know all of it stops mate or here's another example f4 even though that doesn't really make much sense because obviously there's even rook takes but like that's a very elementary oops that's well that would be very nice that was a very elementary example but you get what i'm saying this happens in all your games you want another example here's like a full game example okay if you're playing with the black pieces you have like a london opening you kind of vaguely know that against the london you're supposed to attack with dnc you saw some videos you don't you don't know a whole lot about it you try to trade the bishops and now white just does this thing where they plant the knight on e5 and then they start an attack on the king this is a very common london idea right and at this point you're like hmm well i see they want to attack me so oh sorry let's play f4 actually let's protect our knight like you know what they want to attack me so i'm going to attack them too i'm going to attack them on that side of the board i'm going to go bing bang bang take everything bam bam bam but you're not actually counting whose attack is faster you're just absent-mindedly chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp on that side now white plays bishop to h4 you're like well if they take me that's so dumb cause then this and then i attack the knight that's so dumb i'm just gonna keep attacking and now you lose the game because after bishop f6 pawn f6 yes you're attacking this but you stopped your thought at i'm attacking that when in reality something like check king h8 like no one can guard this so even queen to h4 there is no taking your knight because there's a mate threat you now have to go here and now white can play like czech for example king g8 and has this very nice winning idea uh to even just very calmly take on c6 and if you take back to just castle and nobody can stop this you've opened up your king and meanwhile you're like well i'm so close so well that would be that would also be nice but no no no you're not no your attack just got there in time to get mated congratulations you did a great job wonderful awesome so selfish brain exists in one move situations but also like big picture on the board you just don't pay attention to what the opponent wants where they want to advance their pawns how they want to coordinate their pieces the truth is the 27 2800s they know where both players are thinking to move constantly their differences at that highest level result not in these checkmating attacks but in evaluation they both see abc and they say okay i think b is best for that guy and he's gonna go for it the guy looking at it goes i actually think b is not great i'm gonna go for c that's where they have the silent disagreements and the margin of error is very small and it builds up over time the very slight inaccuracies whereas when you're an intermediate watching a gotham chess video it could be fatal you could be like well they're not going to take me that's so dumb right but then you might also be like well they want to take me that's very scary i'm going to move my knight out of the way and then you might still get blasted but at least you're like well i see they want to go here so i'm just going to i'm going to get this out of here and maybe i'm going to trade this night because it's so strong and maybe they're gonna go here and then that's how you even start setting traps like you understand like you're gonna think oh they're gonna do something like this and then all of a sudden you just poke holes in their defenses and now your attack is much faster you set a trap for them because they can't actually break through so you start predicting what they're gonna do setting the defensive trap and overwhelming them that's how you actually get a lot better at the game let's go on to the final mistake you all make for this last one i'm actually gonna go full screen no chess board required the seventh and final mistake that all of you make is a combination of two things number one tilting number two elo anxiety now i can't sit here and tell you that anxiety is a mistake everybody suffers with some sort of inhibition with some sort of doubt self-doubt uh confidence uh ego right we all we all deal with something we're all humans uh including myself um i have a degree of anxiety when it comes to classical chess obviously i i haven't played in a long time um and sometimes also with tilt but some of us handle uh the art of loss or victory in a very bad way you should not just get angry and play off like 10 games until 300 points and i know you are guilty of that some of you for sure all of a sudden all your progress of getting up to 950 is your rating is down to 680 it hasn't been down there in four five months you never want to play chess again it happens understand it happens you want to delete the app you want to delete your account you're never going to get better at the game you need to see the long the long haul with all this um and you need to understand that your value is not attached to your elo whatsoever if you are actually putting in the work you are not fake training you are actually putting in the work you are making progress you're gonna get better at the game understand eight hundreds of today are much stronger than eight hundreds of five to ten years ago because there's an unlimited amount of resources nowadays people are stronger beginners are stronger there's also a lot more cheaters but beginners are a lot stronger intermediate players are a lot stronger everything is moving upward so the truth is that you need to have that little reset button like take a break when you need and if you're getting red hot you're obviously gonna keep playing because you're like oh i'm doing so well but don't attach try not to attach your self-worth your intellectual capability your your level what you think about yourself to your rating it's gonna come it's gonna come with time and i might say this right now and it might be completely empty you might just go back and continue to tilt um but uh try to get off of that try to play in focus mode in on these different websites where you don't see the person's rating and when you are experiencing like a bad situation step away for a little bit um or cap it play only five games a day i don't care if you win all five or lose all five stop only do ten puzzles try to get ten puzzles correct every day stop that will actually be how you get better and if you just want to play chess for fun that's completely fine but you've made it to the end of this video so i'm assuming you also want some advice on how to actually improve um that's about it for this video let me know your thoughts in the comments below if there's anything i missed if you have any ideas for future con content that you want me to make and as always i appreciate you all very much for making it this far peace out i'll see you in the next one get out of here

Channel: GothamChess

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Length: 37min 16sec (2236 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 14 2021