Ok, you're wrong!

BTW, your posts reveal a massive amount of projection. Know what that means? Didn't think so lol. Yet another lesson for the tutor to teach you. I'm going to have to pay her overtime!

'pro-bullet folks' - you might want to check my profile.

So you think every player of the same ability thinks at the same speed?

I think any current or future posts about the correlation between Chess players and Intelligence should be directed to this thread for their answers, it is threads like these and some of the posts in it which could spoil Chess for me if i didnt know better how Internet forums work.

Chess is 64 squares and 32 pieces and thats it.

Whether you play against yourself, a computer, an opponent, through the mail, take 1 minute or 10 years to play a game whatever the controls or environment it is Chess.

Peace

Five degrees in psychology! Plus, I'm the head psychologist at the most prestigious department of psychology at the most prestigious university in the country! No, make that the world!

Anyone can invent anything about themselves on the Internet, Joey. The rubber meets the road based on the quality of your argument. And since your argument has mostly consisted of childish insults, I'd wager you're seeing a psychologist instead. Keep posting, though. I love the entertainment lol

Must add that I love how you're trying to divert attention away from your failed argument re: bullet and blitz. But that distraction technique is a little primitive, the kind a freshman in Pysch 101 might try.

No one - and I mean no one - can refute the following statement:

"The quality of a chess game deteriorates in bullet and blitz because the players don't have enough time to think."

That was the point the original poster was making, and his point stands.

You want to say bullet and blitz are chess because they follow the same rules and take place on a board with 64 squares and 32 pieces? Fine. Go ahead. No one's arguing that point.

The point under contention is whether chess as it was meant to be played - with careful consideration, deep thought and an attempt to find the best possible move in every given position - is possible in bullet and blitz.

The answer is, it's not.

To argue otherwise reveals an ignorant or willfully stubborn (and hence childish) mind.

It's been great forum posters.

No point in trying to prove 2+2=4 anymore. Some people just won't see the truth even if it's right in front of their face.

Adios, amigos!!!!

Precisely. He was arguing the opposite, that  [even though they do, in fact, follow the same rules], "unless you have a really high rating and fast mind, blitz and bullet are not chess at all."  There seems to be no quibbling in his intent.  But where is it written that a move must make sense?  In fact most games, even bullet games, are not merely mindless moving of pieces. But the slider that moves toward speed, moves away from quality, and as games such as bullet, or even blitz (in which even players of my limited skill can produce decent games, very recognizable in most folk's definition of chess) become less and less in quality as the slider moves further toward speed (the end of the game usually).  This is true in games of master and patzers both.

"The quality of a chess game deteriorates in bullet and blitz because the players don't have enough time to think."
That was the point the original poster was making, and his point stands.

That was never his point. That's a mitigation of his point.  That might be your point or someone elses pointor some evolution in point-life, but it's not the OP's point as he stated it.

Joey Chestnuts said: I got $10K says you are lying.

Whoa...don't try to sell Joey the Brooklyn Bridge! He's sharp as a marble! Actually figured out I might not be the head of the psychology department at the most prestigious university in the world!

Good for you, Joey. You can have that cookie after all. But you still need to see the tutor. Your detection that I am not the head of the psychology department at the most prestigious university in the world wasn't the jaw-dropping piece of deduction you thought it was. But, like I said, you can still have that cookie? Chocolate chip or oatmeal for you, Joey? We have both

You're just trolling now, Batgirl.

The original poster said: "So far as I see, chess is a game that need careful thinking and careful thinking takes time. Moving pieces just to see who can move faster is kind of childish, this make chess ugly."

My translation of that was fair and accurately represented his point. Do you want a cookie too? Joey took the chocolate chip, so we just have oatmeal left. Is that Ok? We have some milk left too if you'd like that as well.

I've learned stuff from Batgirl too and agree she is intelligent, though I fail to see how you're qualified to judge anyone's intelligence vs. someone else's on here. But no matter.

My issue with Batgirl is relevant to her post in this thread and this thread alone (stop chewing with your mouth opeh, Joey!)

Batgirl wrongly said that I misinterpreted/distorted the intent of the original poster when all I did is state what he was stating in different words. So that's that.

But this really is consuming far too much time, I think, for everyone. While it's been a lot of fun, I really do believe this will be my final post. In fact, to ensure that, I'm not even going to read any future posts because the discussion has gotten so far off topic and I think debate on the original point of this topic has been exhausted. We've all made our points and are now just repeating them.

Take it easy. lol (that one was for you, Joey - smile, not laugh out loud!)

As it was meant to be played ? Can you point me to the creator and date upon which Chess and how it was meant to be played please.

I am pretty sure its origins cannot be pinpointed, it has changed over the years including the rules and piece values and their respective power and so "how it was meant to be played" is not something we can really say with any factual certainty.

I know the OP is over a year old.  But drawing a line at 2200 because those below it can't play fast chess is a bold statement from someone who, e.g. couln't tell the difference between an 1800 and a 2200 in the first place.

But yeah, it's somewhere inbetween what you said.  It's not totally random speed moves, and no matter the rating it's not great chess either.  But you can't bar people from playing not great chess because then no one would get to play

a clepsydra ;-)

or did you mean the common term such as egg timer ? (although alot of them will overcook your eggs if they last longer than 3 minutes...LOL..or sand clock or sand timer

Bullet chess with sand timers?  That would be awesome.

I prefer staunton pieces myself ;-)

You can use Staunon men wiht a sand clock and play bullet if you want... though I'd recommend using quicksand.

can you please repeat that in a way I can understand?

what is?

pulling teeth?

agreed!

and thanks for the googlespeak, joeydvivre

Bullet can be a little ridiculous since alot of people make their move before their opponent even does. I do get a kick out of how people that play blitz or bullet love to pat themselves on the back for being such fast thinkers. Or how they criticize people that like to play the longer game because its all about memorizing openings.

There is no difference in generally remembering the first 10 or so moves of a certain opening for long play and remembering the 10 or so trap openings that you use in blitz. If you hit midgame all that is left of the opening is possibly some basic strategic principal which you could likely pick up by just looking at the board anyways.

I'm not saying blitz or rapid (technically even the longest live matches here are rapids) aren't valid ways of playing. I just personally find more enjoyment in looking deeper into a postion and seeing if it has any surprises for me.

And about the database thing I really don't care if the person I am playing is using one. I kind of don't think most of the people i play here are. It is actually possible to know almost nothing about a opening and stay largely on book. One of the first times I played Sicilian since I came back from like 20 years of not playing I did Najdorf up until like move 15 and I had never heard of it. I did look it up after though to see what White had done to me lol.