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Blunders Ruin My Game

Does anybody else have this problem? I'll play a game, usually winning and doing well in a comfortable position, but I make ONE MOVE near the end of the middle game or end game and blunder away my queen and lose. I just don't know how to stop it. I play carefully but without fail I do this almost every game.
Sometime it happens to me. I can find these explanations. 1) Maybe you're too confident to win at that point ("Why he doesn't resign?") that you don't check accurately 2) Time pressure 3) You lost recent games for blunders and you're spending your energies with your fears instead of on the actual game you're playing
@sneakywalrus #1
Looking at your ratings, I think the answer is easy. U1700 blitz players tend to blunder in almost every game, at least once.
You simply need to :
Train and study, analyze your own games (preferably with a stronger and experienced opponent), and play.
All this in a good balance.
Then work towards 1700+ rating. This might take some time.
Be patient and persistent, and don't lose the fun and love for the chess game in the mean time.
Some players have a lot of talent and don't need much training (For example the great Capablanca), but most players will have to work hard.
As a teenager I had to work hard and be persistent, to go over 2000 dutch rating.

Good luck, and have fun !
A very different tip that helped me is: workout.

Workout, eat well and rest better.

When I started to workout I felt like I improved a lot my capacity of concentration during the chess games (and in my studies in general), my "focusing stamina", and in consequence I also blundered less often.
@YetAnotherPlayer #4
Interesting that you mention that.
Many years ago basically no chess player would work out.
I remember reading, perhaps 10 years ago, that all kind of dutch GMs started to work out, and do physical exercises, the new approach to better chess.
And right now we have a chess world champion (Magnus Carlsen)who is as competitive and fit with football as he is with chess !
@achja
That's curious :) I didn't imagine that working out as a way to improve someone's chess performance was something so recent as just as 10 years ago...
I thought that top players like Kasparov and other folks already did physical exercise, not only because it's recommended, but just as a natural decision. Like, "hey, I'm sitting 10 hours here in front of the board/notes/computer and my head is near to explode, let's do something different!" :p

But yeah, it looks like nowadays a great chessplayer is not only a chessplayer during a few hours a day, but during the 24 hours of the day... all his lifestyle must be changed.
Hi, sneakywalrus. On the phisical side, I am alert to notice when my concentration lowers down to do something: go for a wee :), drink some water, or tea, go for a walk, count up to 20 before moving. Being overconfident is the other side. That's a psichological blunder in itself. Exercising outdoors helps to become more realistic about one's capacities in the real world.
Just do tactics. (training puzzles)
You will be better at chess.
Keep playing, do tactics, read chess books. You'll get better.
Do: tactics, tactics, tactics, tactics, tactics, tactics, tactics, endgames and tactics. You'll get better

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