Chess is great, but hard!

Good evening,

finally i manage to write another blogpost. I was quite busy these days. I went to my local chess club for the first time three weeks ago and since then i was there every thursday. It is great, even if i am one of the worst players around i think there is a lot to get out of there. Quite nice people! They make strategy training and after that it is just open for playing around three hours. I am quite happy with the decision to go there.
I finally started to play online, though not on Lichess yet. I will save that until i warmed myself up on the other platform, wait for it ;)
I think my main problem while playing is still too much blunders. I play long time controls to avoid it but it still happens quite much. I try to analyse every game to see into my mistakes. Though the method of analyzing could be more effective, i try to remember what i was thinking and compare the engine suggestion to my decision, doesn ́t work every time but i have the feeling get something out of it. I am thinking about writing down my thought during play, to have it ready for the analysis. Or even recording my screen with spoken commentary, probably trying one or the other soon. Unfortunately i can not analyze my games like when i would play here on Lichess. If i import the PGN to here i can still look it up with the engine, but if the games would be played here, there would be a bit more detailed analysis available. Maybe i overlook something though. Also in the game review i look up into the opening database to learn a bit more about opening, it is still quite hard for me to play very good openings. But it is in progress.
Puzzles also go well, but i figure there seem to be very few situation in my games where tactics like in the puzzles occur, or i don ́t see them all the time, but still it is important to train the pattern recognition...i guess. I might have to do some more easier puzzles as well, that ́s why i do streak puzzling sometimes.
I am following the FIDE candidates lieve stream on Youtube, to be honest this keeps me busy a bit, whereas this time i am watching i would normally play or puzzle. I mean i enjoy watching it, and i think i get something out of it. But if it is over i will have definitely more time to go into active learning. I don ́t want to puzzle while i am watching, i already have hard times to follow the games, since it is so high level stuff. Jan Gustaffson and Peter Svidler probably do a great job there, but i really struggle following their analysis. It is actually the first chess tournament i follow and it really makes me a fanboy more and more. I love all these little storys around chess and all the big characters.
A friend bought me a chessbook for beginners, slowly working through it. Also the oldschool endgame books i have are still on my working list, just don ́t have tooo much time these days. I preordered Levy Rozmans ́How to win at chess - Next level ́. I am quite excited to that book as well, since i watch Levys videos quite often. Honestly in my humble opinion i think he has really good skill for teaching beginners, so i have high hopes that this book will be useful and entertain me in the same time. Like i said in my last post it is important for me to have emotions while learning, and amusement is a good emotion ;)

Allright, that was probably a good update about my progress. There are a lot of ideas how i will continue working on my skills and sometimes it is a bit overwhelming, since there is much content out there and i can not always say what is effective and what not, but i have a good feeling. I can already feel that my ability to concentrate has become better, which is a great thing by itself. My mindset has improved as well, i don ́t get so extremely upset these days. Yeah i feel a bit bad if i blunder and stuff, but i take some deep breaths, while realising it is part of the learning process and then it is allright. It is a bit hard to analyse my blunders afters and go through the "pain" again, but i think this is really the point to improve. I try to keep it like that :)
For sure i will write some more blogposts to stay on track. Look forward to it ;)

all good greetings