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Mistakes that repeat

The Slipping Advantage — the leak costing you rating points

“You build winning positions and give them away.”

Your evaluation peaks and then bleeds out — the advantage you earned never reaches the scoresheet.

You reached a winning position and let it slip. Converting a win is a separate skill from getting one. The method: trade pieces, not pawns, to simplify toward a clean ending; deny the opponent counterplay; and don’t grab extra material when a simpler path just ends it. When you’re ahead, simplify — when the win is in sight, take the safe road, not the flashy one.

The good news: it is a pattern, not bad luck — and patterns can be trained. Step one is measuring yours: how often it appears in your real games and how many rating points it drains. Then the daily repair: 5 minutes on your own positions, not invented puzzles.

The master who cures it

In Fix My Chess every leak has its antidote: a master whose school is exactly what you need to internalize.

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