I've only recently started playing 15 | 10 on chess.com again after playing very little since my return from Australia. Currently my rating is 1355, much lower than it is on lichess.org but no matter. I'll stick with the former for the time being. I think it's important to play early in the day before I become too tired. Late morning or early afternoon would seem ideal.
Sometimes the mistakes I make are disturbing. For example, Figure 1 shows an example of a game that I played today in which, playing black, I needed to defend my pawn on g6 that was under threat of capture from the White Queen.
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Figure 1: I'm Black and White has just played Q-c2 |
Instead of playing my Knight to e7 and defending the pawn, I played my Bishop to e7 allowing the pawn to be captured. Had I moved my Knight, White would probably have played his Bishop to g5 pinning my Knight. I would then have played my King to f7 protecting the pawn. If White captured my Knight with his Bishop, I would recapture with my Bishop and if he checked me by moving his Knight to g5, I would have captured the Knight and held the pawn, Chess blindness, I guess you'd call it. Anyway, the more games I play the less likely I will succumb to such blunders.
