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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u202307011927@feddit.de 8 months agoAs 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.
weew@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
zeppo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a common saying in the US as well. Never heard of chess blindness, though.
u202307011927@feddit.de 8 months ago
Didn’t know that. TIL, thanks
lyam23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“you can’t see the forest for the trees.”
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or sometimes “you can’t see the woods for the trees”
dandroid@dandroid.app 8 months ago
I have heard it with that exact wording many times. Or maybe, “can’t see the forest through all the trees”
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 8 months 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.