5 Calculation Mistakes That Are Destroying Your Chess! (How to Fix Them)

If you want to improve your calculation skills, check out my award-winning course: 🏆 2023 Chessable Best Tactics Course of the Year! https://www.chessable.com/fundamental-chess-calculation-skills/course/123333/ 🔵 My Chessable Courses: https://chessable.com/drcan ♟️ Find me on Chess.com: canka19 ♟️ Find me on Lichess: cantosh 🏆 2022 Chessable Community Author of the Year! https://www.chessable.com/blog/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-chessable-awards/ Connect on https://twitter.com/Kabadayichess Go Chessable Pro using this link to support the channel: https://chessable.com/drcanpro 00:00 Handwaving 03:17 Handwaving in Pawn Endings 04:52 Wishful Thinking 07:27 Playing Checkers Instead of Chess 11:16 Looking at Irrelevant Lines 16:03 Kotov Syndrome & Sunk Cost Fallacy 21:29 Homework Position This video shows the most common thought process mistakes in calculation which I witnessed as a coach over the years. Some of these mistakes occur due to cognitive biases, e.g. wishful thinking/confirmation bias and the sunk cost fallacy. It is important to gain awareness of these mistakes to reduce them over time. You can write down your recurrent issues and track their frequency over time. Please give me feedback on whether you found this video useful and how your calculation mistakes evolve over time after watching this video!