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Making Yourself Slow Down

I feel like my biggest problem at the moment is playing too fast and missing something important in the process. Careless mistakes, in other words. I mostly play classical here in order to give myself more time, yet for some reason I play faster than I should anyway.

I've blundered away multiple games in this manner, such as by losing a queen/generally screwing up my position in the opening, or losing a critical advantage in the endgame.

Does anyone have any tips on how to force one's self to slow down and evaluate *everything*, every turn?
I have the same problem when playing timed games. When I go into a 10+0 game it's like my brain shuts off. Take a look at these blunderrific examples: en.lichess.org/@/r14/loss. The one which really hurt was en.lichess.org/SqIZQHSC. I battled back from -2.9 to -0.1 and then threw the game away.

The only thing which seems to work for me is playing correspondence games. For some reason when the time control is gone I can think about my moves, formulate a plan and then execute it. Here's my lone correspondence game: en.lichess.org/qxykWXwC. Even here though I still suffer from some questionable decision making. See moves 11, 12, and 13 where I start to chase the bishop and then abandon the plan to rescue my knight.
"Does anyone have any tips on how to force one's self to slow down and evaluate *everything*, every turn?"

I have the same problem but I stopped worrying about it. I experimented with slower time controls but I still moved too fast. I finally gave up and went back to using the time control 10+0.

Using "Quick game" I never wait more than 5 seconds for an opponent. I enjoy the game instead of worrying about my dumb moves. The games are sloppy but fun.

Win or lose after every game I use "Learn from your mistakes" to educate myself.

Off topic: I love lichess.
Tips? Just think about what every possible move is, and continue to think of every possible move until the board is unclear in your mind.

Hope this helps!

Just kidding, I think maybe you should learn what to look for.
Like hanging pieces, holes, my videos ;)

I think I move too slow nowadays, great for classical, but disastrous for bullet.
LOL, my problem is the contrary. I play too slow. I lose many winning positions because I just don't have time in the end. I think it proves time must be used in a balanced way. I'm pretty sure my rating would be around 2400 in classical if I could speed up a little bit. But whenever I play faster I blunder.
@BobC I definitely respect the "get used to your playing speed" approach, but I'm not sure if it's the best for me, especially since I should already be able to recognize moves that costing me a lot.

I am enjoying my games, even the sloppy ones, and on my worst mess ups I just treat it as a learning experience. I would still like to lessen my careless mistakes so that the majority of my mistakes are ones I would have made even if I took more time.

Reading between the lines a bit, I'll try not to get too caught up in the ideas of skill and rating (at least, not to the detriment of fun).

@Drawish_Giri I feel like that would be a bit easier to solve: Just increase your time controls a bit with a custom game. Lichess remembers your previous custom settings, so you only need to do it once after you've figured out what's comfortable for you.

While it may be possible that such games wouldn't get as many takers on your playing level, as a rough around the edges rookie I can consistently get takers for 15+20 matches, and I could probably get 20+20 matches successfully as well.
You seriously need to watch some streams or you tube some chess videos if you are 1100 on this site. Not trying to sound mean , but just sayin you could use some instruction.
I play too quick and too slow. It depends on the day. Have had important games with both. When you play too quick you are not evaluating the position and not calculating anything ether. At least systematically.

I play too slow. Yesterday, I had an easy win in a tournament but ran out of time and lost. I wish there were tournaments with more than 10 minutes of time.
I noticed that I play pretty fast even if I have much time, when playing online. What helps there is to have an actual board and set up the position there so you think while looking at an actual board instead of a computer screen. (at least for me that helped)
If you blunder a lot I am not even sure slower time controls are good. Maybe you should play blitz to sharpen your brains tactic skills. Also chess is mostly about pattern recognition, and when playing blitz you see a lot more patterns in the same time.

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