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Tilting In Different Time Controls - How To Recover from the Tilt

Tilting In Different Time Controls - How To Recover from the Tilt

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I am sure almost every chess player has gone through a tilt. 

What is a Tilt?

Tilting Is when you lose ratting ( in chess terms ) and usually is from 50-1000! points!

Lets take a look on my Tilt in Bullet 

Bullet Tilt Graph

There is always a question that says -

How can I recover from a Tilt in either 

  • Blitz
  • Bullet
  • Rapid
  • Daily

Bullet Tilt Recovery -

Now Usually "Taking breaks" is good for you in chess, but not too long. I would say If you're titing you should take a 3 day break at max.

Why can't I take a longer break?

Taking longer break will make you forget your "style" of playing and It can take time to regain it.

In your break time a good thing to do is Puzzles and Puzzle rush 

Blitz Tilt Recovery - 

Tilting in Blitz can mean a lot of things such as...

  • Time
  • Getting Checkmated (Yikes!)
  • Not thinking 
  • Or Device ( like your mouse or trackpad ) 

Time-

If your losing on time that means your to slow. 

Sometimes in blitz you are playing really good, but the time is beating you.

If the clock is your enemy you have to make it your friend. 

Being to slow is actually fine. There is a good way that you can make your self faster 

in Bullet I would recommend the time to be 1 min to 30 second, so that you don´t spend so much time on trying to get faster.

Getting Checkmated - 

One word Puzzles wink.png 

Not thinking - 

The thinking process can be a little rough, but If you have a coach talk to them and see if they know a answer, and try it out!

If you don´t have a coach itś better to get one, because it can help you in your future chess journey! 

Device - 

Sadly sad.png I can´t really help you in this area, but I can give what I can do.

I would buy a better device if the device is really old, or if itś a mouse you can buy on for some money because Itś really worth it!  

Rapid Tilt Recovery - 

Tilting In Rapid Is very familiar with tilting in blitz with a little one possibility 

  • Not using time wisely (time mismanagement) 

 Time mismanagement - 

Time can be hard to control in chess, but Using to much time or to less time in Rapid is absolutely substandard  (BAD) 

Fast - 

Moving to fast is a big problem,  because you can miss a good move or endanger your king from checkmate . A good way to get rid of moving to fast is too learn to analyze position. 

If you don´t know how to I got you wink.png  I made a blog before about learning to analyze positions! 

Slow - 

Moving to slow can also be a big problem. You can be winning but down on the clock, and time pressure can be very hard. A great way to get rid of being so slow is to play bullet! 

Suggested time controls 

  • 1 min
  • 30 sec
  • 2 min

Daily Tilt Recovery -

Titling In daily is very common. Itś usually because of time. I would suggest the same tips I put for the blitz, because you have a lot of time in daily that can range from 1-14 days!

All chess - 

if you didn't notice most of these time control tips can be used in any time control wink.png! 

But one thing I forgot to mention is that in All of chess a good way to un tilt is to read books and study some opening like the London or something. If you are looking for books your level go to go to google and type - Chess books for ____ in the ____ part you add your ratting! 

I hope you enjoyed today's blog! And ofcourse learned something! 

Anyway Enjoy the rest of Winter break (if you have some more of Winter break left) 

Adios

~ @Blitznstreamz