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Which is the worst blunder in chess?

I think the worst blunder is analyzing moves in a random position without analyzing the position itself first.

I see many 2400 players here on LichessTV that play really bad moves, they miss tactics, they miss obvious checkmates.

This happens only because they start with the calculation of candidate moves before the evaluate the needs of the position to generate candidate moves.

Yes, Im not perfect, I make many blunders myself, but everybody likes to get to the point by criticyzing other, don\t they?

What do you think about such blunders?
Yeah, good point. I don't know if I'd call it a "blunder" but the biggest mistake I see people make is not playing in order to protect a high rating (and failing to improve as a result), as well as being afraid of losing and playing easy opponents. Like you, I'm guilty of this as well at times, but that doesn't make it any less negative.

As for the worst actual in-game blunder, how about this game that I just played 5 minutes ago: http://en.lichess.org/fbllok6ROxaj
I honestly have no idea how my opponent blundered so badly. If you miss a tactic that's a double attack or a discovered attack, that's at least understandable. But here I just played a rubbish move with an incredibly obvious threat, and he somehow completely missed it
Nice game but you need to create more dangerous problems for your opponents and at the same time learning to solve some common problems without creating any weaknesses in your position.
I´d say the worst blunder is playing on in a clearly lost position, instead of resigning and using the saved time to analyse the reason(s) that you lost! ;)

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