Why do I keep blundering in chess?
Daniel Kozusek · 1 min
Why do I keep blundering in chess? One reason: every puzzle you've solved was from your side of the board. Never once from theirs.
But in your games, plenty of the tactics are theirs: the ones you allow.
What kinds of blunder are there?
The left chart is the one puzzles train. The right one is the one they never do.
Why is a threat harder to see?
1Finding a winYou know there's a tactic. You go looking for it.
2Seeing a threatNothing tells you. You have to ask what they want, every move.
A puzzle tells you there's something to find. Your opponent won't.
How do you train to see their threats?
- 1After every move they make, ask: what does that move want?
- 2Look at their checks, captures and threats before your own.
- 3Solve some puzzles from their side: play the attack they're about to make.
The last one is what threat puzzles in Peekchess do: you play the attack your opponent is about to make, so you see it coming. How Puzzles works
