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fling God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1591 Joined: 01/21/11 Gender:	Re: Losing pieces in games Reply #2 - 05/12/12 at 08:20:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think this happens to most players. When I am in a flow, it seems like all pieces find good squares and magically protect each other. The opposite is what you describe, when I think I might be ok only to find out that I have pieces dropping off the board like flies. No advice on why this happens, though.


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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2115 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Losing pieces in games Reply #1 - 05/12/12 at 08:20:02	Post Tools	Print Post
	Concentrating better basically Rust won't be helping at all and neither will playing games online if you're not taking it totally seriously. (And the previous threads do rather suggest that you aren't!) Also think that some people are simply more prone to this though. I do it quite a lot in blitz or even rapid if I'm a little disinterested. And from time to time in long control over the board games. Some people I've seen can seemingly have wild time scrambles on a regular basis without making any crude blunders. Its an impressive skill that really.


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Gilchrist is a legend God Member Offline Posts: 1039 Location: Manchester, UK Joined: 03/02/10	Losing pieces in games 05/12/12 at 07:02:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	Is there a technique to prevent oneself from leaving one's pieces en prise? Even though I am over 2250 FIDE, I have not played over-the-board for a while and I do not play in general as much as I used to a few years ago. I find that many of my recent losses in online chess are my not seeing my own pieces are attacked and I lose a knight, bishop, or rook for no reason. I am not sure how I used to prevent myself from doing this previously, but now I seem to lose pieces for no reason because I am not seeing them being attacked, even if it is very obvious.

	Creo lo que creo no importa lo que creen los demás.
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