{"id":1399,"date":"2026-09-27T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:28:32","slug":"fix-this-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/2026\/09\/27\/fix-this-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix this first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Dalton Perrine: <a href=\"https:\/\/chesschatter.substack.com\/p\/common-chess-mistakes-by-rating\">https:\/\/chesschatter.substack.com\/p\/common-chess-mistakes-by-rating<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th>Training Priority<\/th><th>Under 1500<\/th><th>1500 to 1800<\/th><th>1800 to 2000<\/th><th>2000+<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fix first<\/strong><\/td><td>Blunder checking<\/td><td>Blunder checking;<br>time management<\/td><td>Prophylaxis;<br>calculation depth<\/td><td>Consistency;<br>the mental game<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>High payoff<\/strong><\/td><td>Shallow calculation;<br>king safety<\/td><td>Wrong-moment trades;<br>passive defending<\/td><td>Endgame technique;<br>emotional control<\/td><td>Endgame precision;<br>calculation depth<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Matters, slower<\/strong><\/td><td>Passive defending<\/td><td>Pawn breaks;<br>prophylaxis;<br>calculation<\/td><td>Misjudging positions;<br>pawn breaks<\/td><td>Fine-tuning prophylaxis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Mostly fixes itself<\/strong><\/td><td>Weak pawns;<br>piece placement<\/td><td>Piece placement;<br>targeting weaknesses<\/td><td>Wrong-moment trades;<br>time management<\/td><td>Positional polish<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Low payoff to train now<\/strong><\/td><td>Endgame theory;<br>positional study<\/td><td>Deep opening theory<\/td><td>Blunder checking;<br>king safety<\/td><td>Basic safety,<br>already solved<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dalton Perrine: https:\/\/chesschatter.substack.com\/p\/common-chess-mistakes-by-rating Training Priority Under 1500 1500 to 1800 1800 to 2000 2000+ Fix first Blunder checking Blunder checking;time management Prophylaxis;calculation depth Consistency;the mental game High payoff Shallow calculation;king safety Wrong-moment trades;passive defending Endgame technique;emotional control Endgame precision;calculation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/2026\/09\/27\/fix-this-first\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-g","category-coaching","category-psych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devonjuniorchess.co.uk\/wp\/drdaveexeter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}