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u202307011927@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

As some others already answered the question, let me bring up a fun fact. In german we have a saying that goes “to not see the forest because all of the trees”, which in english would be probably called chess blindness.

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zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s a common saying in the US as well. Never heard of chess blindness, though.

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- u202307011927@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Didn’t know that. TIL, thanks
  
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  - lyam23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “you can’t see the forest for the trees.”
    
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    sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Or sometimes “you can’t see the woods for the trees”
    
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  - dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”
    
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    SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Lived from Virginia to Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Michigan, also heard “can’t see the forest FOR the trees” which I always figures was a more colloquial change.
    
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weew@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The English phrase is “missing the forest for the trees”

Not quite the same as chess blindness. Possibly the opposite. I think, but it basically means: being unable to see the bigger picture because you’re too focused on minor individual details

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