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There are two psychological phenomenons when it comes to chess..

One is "chess blindness." The other occurs when you calculate a number of different lines, and at the last moment, you choose an uncalculated line (probably because all calculated lines were losing). What is this phenomena called?

Also have you ever experienced either of these?
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Regardless, there's a name for the latter. Anybody know what it's called?
That's spot on by Clarkey. By the way, "phenomenon" is singular, "phenomena" or "phenomenons" is plural. It's a Greek word...
I blunder and I blunder badly. And frequently. I just can't help. I drop a piece (or two, or three), plain and simple. I'm starting to accept it and live with it, I'm not even fighting it anymore. I just play and pray not to blunder.
The second happens to me a lot. I calculate a few lines, then see something seemingly better and just play it with only a surface analysis. Maybe it's time pressure.
I think somebody said that the idea of logical thinking is a rather misleading one and many players, even good ones, end up using the move that comes up at apparently at the last moment rather than those which were calculated apparently in more depth.

Two psychological comments. One: I think it was the psychologist Daryl Bem who more or less proved that we don't have access to our higher cognitive processes.

A much earlier psychologist, William James (Henry's brother, literary people might like to know) said something like 'we don't run because we are afraid; we are afraid because we run'. The idea, I think, is that our behaviour dominates our thoughts (thought is sometimes considered to be an epiphenomena - something that appears, misleadingly, to have a substantial influence but does not really do much). This idea rather attaches itself to the last move rush, in my opinion.

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