The Start | April 1st, 2025
Hello! I engage in the act of playing chess everyday. Sounds fancy innit?
Alright let's cut off the slack and the British pimpage. I'm going to try to make a habit of writing a diary about all of my chess games I've played, tracking the results, giving some notable ones, point out my little wins, little losses, comment, interpret, note out the mistakes I made, note out what I did good. I believe by tracking all the games I played, aka analysing passively, I will see my mistakes and will improve by learning from those (hah, finally).
So we're starting from April 1st, 2025 (I wrote this the next day, that's to be expected: I play chess one day and document them the day after). April Fools Day, I was on a blitz grind like most grandmasters. If I become a blitz degenerate, who knows, maybe I'll become a grandmaster. After all, all top GMs play some form of blitz.
I played a total of 18 blitz games, all 3+0. Some of them was played during an eloquence contest (search up "Eloquentia", it's really a French thing), I can't be bothered to listen to a bunch of high schoolers my class yapping about peace and sensitive topics that I shouldn't brought up here.
drumrolls please? 18 games, 9 wins 9 losses for a 50% winrate. I started from 1959 and finished at 1974 for a gain of +15 elo, my peak elo for the day was 2005. Towards the end I eventually tilted. my final eight games of the day, I lost six.
A little hack for you guys if you just want to squeeze as much elo as possible but this is also fairly useful for those who want to try playing people at a higher rating range (trust me, a lot of them sucks): change your rating range qnd set it to -25 to +∞. That's how I managed to still gain a fair amount of elo, even though I only have a 50% winrate, as I win and lose against higher rated people, squeezing out an extra 1-2 elo every game.
Let's get to the analysis.
Blitz games tend to end really fast: my first four games were all miniatures!
I won against 2100s in less than 20 moves, but I also lost to 1900s in about the same amount of moves. Taking a look at my first game:
And now taking a look at my losses:
I can safely conclude that blitz games is a lot about openings. A lot of the times you see people playing tricky openings, exploiting the lack of time and people fall for the traps. But even if there's no trickeries, not knowing opening theory will make you lose games fairly easily. I lost this game because of my lack of theory on this line, which is fairly common (as well, it is a transposition to the Traditional Scandinavian). My bad.
Finally, I want to end this blog post with my best win of the day, which was against a 2158 (almost 200 elo above me!).
That's it. I'm starting this series of blog posts to aid me in the 2025 Improvement Challenge. So join me in the journey, and I hope our chess improve together 
