I would want the skill to drink 100 water bottles in 30 minutes!
If you could have one GM’s skill, what would it be?
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Viznik wrote:
icyboyyy wrote:
Viznik wrote:
icyboyyy wrote:
i'd want any gm's skill of having the gm title
Cheeky. But what single skill do you think one of them have that you could benefit from and actually implement in your games?
the berlin draw
but seriously, i'd want to be able to calculate a bit faster, like fischer, kasparov, hikaru, and pretty much every super-gm
I doubt every GM is a fast calculator. It seems to me some take sooo long for a single move while others see it right away
Intuition.
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Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
Viznik wrote:
icyboyyy wrote:
Viznik wrote:
icyboyyy wrote:
i'd want any gm's skill of having the gm title
Cheeky. But what single skill do you think one of them have that you could benefit from and actually implement in your games?
the berlin draw
but seriously, i'd want to be able to calculate a bit faster, like fischer, kasparov, hikaru, and pretty much every super-gm
I doubt every GM is a fast calculator. It seems to me some take sooo long for a single move while others see it right away
Intuition.
Nice one. Even at my level I can’t tell you how many times I didn’t play the best move because I didn’t trust my intuition. A very valuable skill to have
I trust mine... Thats why I play a ton of blitz...
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MLP8 wrote:
If I could have any skill that a GM has, it would be the overall skill of the GM. I think I beat the system
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Viznik wrote:
one =/= overall
We’re already seeing the affects of corona shutting down the schools
Me Who didn't learn much anyways...
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The ability to think through your moves clearly. Most of my blunders are a result of rushing through my moves so I would want to slow down and process every move
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Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
Positional play to set up the perfect attack or increase an advantage.
Positions are such a huuuuuge part of higher level play.
Um positions are part of all levels...
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Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
Viznik wrote:
ninjaswat wrote:
Positional play to set up the perfect attack or increase an advantage.
Positions are such a huuuuuge part of higher level play.
Um positions are part of all levels...
I mean superior positions, as you say focusing more on positional play rather than just moving pieces
I mean that's basically the thing that could get me to 2000 because my tactics are good enough soooo
no more blunders
or calculations
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Calculation. I blew two winning positions otb today because of that (self censored)
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B1ZMARK wrote:
Calculation. I blew two winning positions otb today because of that (self censored)
Ouch... Lightning was saying it would show how underrated you really are OTB...
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Was drawing against a 2187 until I blundered a piece while HE was in time pressure...
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B1ZMARK wrote:
Was drawing against a 2187 until I blundered a piece while HE was in time pressure...
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If you could magically have just one skill a great GM has, what would it be?
For me, it would be Magnus Carlson’s vision with the knight. I’ll never forget a game he played where he was in a totally lost position, about to lose his queen, then he made a move with a knight, then another, then all of a sudden he had his opponent in a brilliant trap that his opponent and nobody spectating saw coming. Now when I play I try my best to use the knight like that, because that opened my eyes to the power in using the knight strategically.
Murphy’s creativity and Fischer’s puzzle solving skills were a close second, but felt a bit vague.