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Originally Posted by Don Kament
Do you think that increasing ER is normal, when you try to implement new concepts to your game?
Yes. You have all sorts of brand new mistakes to be making!
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Do you think it is better to try to grasp one concept at a time or get better at one specific part of the game before you move on to the next?
I found it hard to focus on "one concept" because lots of concepts play against each other. It's not like you can say "I'm going to focus on blitzing" and then try to blitz at every opportunity. But I also didn't have a big book of problems that I was working from. Just matches against the computer and the analysis that it gave me.
The two big questions that I would ask myself:
1) What was I thinking?
2) What should I have been thinking?
Early on, my answer to #1 was that I wasn't thinking. I often played without really slowing down enough to carefully weigh the actual options in front of me. I wasn't necessarily thinking about connectivity, or safe vs. bold, or any of that stuff. Later on, it was more about me choosing the wrong concept to apply.
#2 was about learning how to decide which strategic option was the right one. This came down to knowing how to identify the aspects of the position that led to going down one path or the other. What did I see and what did I miss?