Bad Ideas
This article was published originally on The Chess Improver blog on 2016-11-08
I have reposted it here for reference.
"Errare humanum est..."
Seneca
Everyone has their fair share of bad ideas over a chess career. It is as they say part of the human nature. Key is to learn from them instead of persisting down that road because:
"... sed in errare (errore) perseverare diabolicum"