How to Find the Real Cause of Your Chess Mistakes

🔵 My Chessable Courses: https://chessable.com/drcan 🟢 My chesscom Courses: https://www.chess.com/courses/all?sea... ♟️ Find me on Chess.com: DrCanChess ♟️ Find me on Lichess: cantosh 🏆 2022 Chessable Community Author of the Year! https://www.chessable.com/blog/announ... 🏆 2023 Chessable Best Tactics Course of the Year! https://www.chessable.com/fundamental... 🏆 2024 Chessable Author of the Year! https://www.chessable.com/blog/annouc... 🏆 2025 Chessable Awards – 4x Winner • Course of the Year – Preventing Blunders in Chess • Best Presenter – Can Kabadayi • Best Strategy Course – The Art of Chess: A Practical Workbook • Best Tactics/Calculation Course – Preventing Blunders in Chess https://www.chessable.com/blog/the-20... Go Chessable Pro using this link to support the channel: https://www.chessable.com/pro/?ref_id... 00:00 Intro 01:20 4 Questions 03:35 Chess Example 1 05:06 The Remedy 1 05:58 Chess Example 2 07:37 Wishful Thinking 08:46 The Remedy 2 09:53 Training Tips 10:48 Error Log Why do chess players keep making the same mistakes even after analyzing their games with an engine? Computer analysis can show you where the evaluation changed, but it cannot explain why your thinking process failed. In this video, we introduce the idea of a **cognitive autopsy**—a practical method for understanding the mental cause behind every chess mistake. You will learn to analyze your errors using four questions: *Did I see it? Did I consider it? Did I calculate (analyse) it? Did I understand it?* These questions help distinguish between problems with perception, candidate-move generation, calculation/analysis, and evaluation. Through practical examples from student games, the video demonstrates why two players can make the same chess mistake for completely different reasons, and therefore require completely different forms of training. You will also learn how to create a simple chess error log that records both the type of mistake and its cognitive cause. Instead of relying on generic chess training, you can identify the actual bottleneck in your thinking and choose exercises that directly target it.