What I am TRYING to say is, how do I trick myself into noticing tactics? Because I am fully capable in noticing complex tactics (When I KNOW that there is a tactic) but not in games so how do I adapt my mindset?
Help with sustainable mindset.
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I don't think it's a problem with your mindset, noticing tactics is purely pattern recognition, so all you really can do is continue playing and constantly scan the board for ideas, even if they don't work by the first glance still think them through, that's reinforcement which translates into ease of recognition. Also blitz is not the way to improve, even if you're relatively experienced, the lack of time will force you to decide on safe and familiar ideas, to look for uncommon tactics you have to spend time.
My blitz is 1500 and my puzzles is 2400, when I am doing puzzles, I have a TOTALLY DIFFERENT mindset to that when I am playing chess and I can't seem to replicate the same mindset. Whenever I do, I try and think to myself 'there is a tactic here and need to find it' and it ends up backfiring. With this mindset, I miss obvious positional tactics, please can someone help???
The puzzles rating isn't like other competitive Elo-type ratings. It mostly reflects persistence.
Look at the leaderboard for puzzles.
Why should you?