What do you do when you can't see a win?

Vartiovuori

Only Chess

07 Feb 12

Shallow Blue

Joined: 18 Jan 07
Moves: 12477

10 Feb 12

Originally posted by SwissGambit
You forgot

Engine use

on your list.

Otherwise ... I agree 100%.

And the most common:

Repeat flogging of dead horses.

Richard

redneck farmer

Joined: 03 Jan 12
Moves: 10129

26 Feb 12

What about doing a sacrafice to get ahead. Sometimes they get excited and forget the reason for a sacrafice

~~vandervelde~~

Joined: 10 Dec 11
Moves: 143494

26 Feb 12

Originally posted by Vartiovuori
This happened to me just now(and although I figured it out over the course of a couple days from when I first saw where the situation was going, the game isn't over yet, so not going to link it or talk about specifics yet). So: You have some clear advantage that you can see should lead to a mate, but you just can't seem to figure the mate out. What do you do?

Assume zen attitude; this game is not "a missed opportunity" but just another step in learning process. Analyze that game, and convince yourself you learned a lesson. 😉