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Good books on blitz/bullet?
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Jan 2, 2012
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Are there any good chess960 books then? Cause I can't seem to find any
Only
Play Stronger Chess by Examining Chess960: Usable Strategies of Fischer Random Chess Discovered
And the author of that doesn't seem to be an authority on the subject :(
Jan 2, 2012
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#4
I think you can tell a great deal about a persons chess ability in a 5mn blitz game. Although the clock makes a big difference talent plays an important part. I would agree with you on bullet games. As fritz would say "Throw your pieces at me why don't you".
benonidoni wrote:
I think you can tell a great deal about a persons chess ability in a 5mn blitz game. Although the clock makes a big difference talent plays an important part. I would agree with you on bullet games. As fritz would say "Throw your pieces at me why don't you".
Big is a massive understatement.
But maybe I just wasn't born with a talent for time management...
Jan 3, 2012
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diogens wrote:
AnthonyCG wrote:
diogens wrote:
Arctor wrote:
benonidoni wrote:
I think you can tell a great deal about a persons chess ability in a 5mn blitz game. Although the clock makes a big difference talent plays an important part. I would agree with you on bullet games. As fritz would say "Throw your pieces at me why don't you".
Big is a massive understatement.
But maybe I just wasn't born with a talent for time management...
Is not talent, just a big memory and quick brain (which is distinctive of younger players). Blitz is ok 4 Masters, they check openings. But an amateur can get biased. Play tricky in blitz and try to play soundly in classical. At least chess960 makes you think from the very begining.
Because it's obvious that all chess players play blitz this way...
No, but amateurs who play this way get a bonus rating. Just learn the KG, the Latvian, the Traxler Countergambit and some surprising openings like 1.b4. If your opening knowledge is not good enough you'll get hitted by this type of playing. Play poker instead and you'll earn some dough!!
I think if a player is using weak openings and looking at the clock he'll get burned playing against an experienced blitz player?
Jan 3, 2012
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#7
I think the value of initiative and pressure is much greater relative to material as the game gets faster - hence gambit lines make a lot of sense in blitz.
Jan 7, 2012
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#8
I agree with blundering... gambit lines are good in blitz and even better in bullet. However, playing gambit lines against someone higher rated than you by over 150 points or so is usually not a good idea... but still might catch them off guard nonetheless
Friend of mine's blitz strategy is totally opposite. Goes for closed positions, and trades as often as possible... a totally defensive mindset. Can be surprisingly frustrating as it seems he's always willing to make a draw... but he plays so fast due to never trying anything he's often ahead on time.
Still comes down to skill of course, just pointing out a different POV.
Jan 8, 2012
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Wu-Man wrote:
Any other suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
Russians had a very strong blitz player Chepukaitis. Some tell stories how he beat Tal in blitz matches. He wrote a book about how to win in blitz, though it is in Russian. Be like Fischer and learn Russian :D
Some of his material is at http://www.gmchess.com/gmschool/lecture/chepuk.html
However you should not dive in to much blitz strategies if your goal is to become strong in long games. It does not march well together.
Smart Chip from St. Petersburg!
Jan 9, 2012
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#12
Thank you ZaidejasChEgis, I will look into it and see if there are translations... I doubt though D: but thanks anyway :)
diogens wrote:
Arctor wrote:
Two is two too many
Exactly, bullet and blitz is not chess, it's another game. I would rather follow, if any, a chess960 book.
Blitz is still chess, and requires the same skills. However, it requires extra skills on top of that. Bullet can be a bit excessive, but both bullet and blitz require the ability to make a plan and carry it out, as well as tactical and opening knowledge. Supprise openings are useful, but a game, even in blitz, isn't just the opening. I really enjoy blitz, It's my favorite way to place chess, and I think it requires just as much skill as "real" chess.
You don't have to be a master to avoid hanging pieces and counter unknown openings, but practice helps a lot.
Dec 4, 2012
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blitz and bullet don't require as much intellectual rigor as does standard time control. if they did, why would professionals even play standard time control? if it's the same thing as 5min chess why invest all that time?
the work/fun ratio is squarely in favor of fun in regards to blitz/bullet.
what you have is a sliding scale.
the more developed the intuition, the higher the degree of mastery of the fundamentals and basics (particularly endgames), the higher the level of play will be in regard to blitz and bullet.
the less knowledge/mastery of the fundamentals and the less developed the intuition, the more blitz and bullet approach something very much like a fun, addictive and entertaining video game with essentially no larger significance.
GM Shankland has done a video on here concerning improving at blitz.
GM Dzindzichasvilli has also done a dvd on how to improve your blitz play.
Blitz takes skills(that's the reason why GM have the highest blitz rating), bullet requires some skill too, but bullet is not chess.
So what is best books for bullet and blitz?
Huhe bullet not chess?????
fburton, Commander Sandf,
I have three of the wonderful Sosonko books, wherein he writes grandmaster portraits of players he knew, mostly Russians. "Smart Chip of St.Petersburg" is one of them, and the title of the book and the first chapter refer to Genrikh Chepukaitis (1935-2004) an international master who ranked among the very best blitz players in the world.
Chepukaitis 'wrote a small book on the topic of speed chess, blitz and how to play in time trouble' (Sosonko) which was (re-?)issued in English in 2016 as 'Winning at blitz- a fun guide to blitz chess'.
The wonderful Sosonko article on Chepukaitis (he wrote the portraits for New in Chess, collected them in his several books), I believe, is included in the re-issue of the Chepukaitis book!
So far, personally, I only know the summary GM Sosonko gave in "Smart Chip ..", outlining the humour Chepukaitis brought in:
'You need not play well, your opponent must play badly (..) Above all you mustn't prevent your opponent from making a choice (..) He [and she 
] will find a way to lose if you don't get in his [or her ] way too much.'
Here is one photo (please 'open in new page' to read close-up) with more concrete tips ('Always move your pieces closest to the clock')
Here are a few tidbits related to writings on the topic of blitz chess…..
My favorite blitz story is that of the famous 1970 blitz tournament that quickly came together in Herceg Novi, Yugoslavia. The story features Bobby Fischer during his period of ascendency and an assembled team of world class blitz specialists intent on schooling him. We can read about the story in these two websites: https://www.chess.com/blog/AttackFirstBugLater/the-greatest-blitz-tournament-ever and https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-blitz-tournament-herceg-novi-1970-and-the-fischer-papers. Plus Bobby co-authored a book with Dimitrije Bjelica “ Chess Meets of the Century” that covers a bunch of the games. There is also a solid chapter on the tournament starting on page 182 of Plisetsky and Voronkov’s great book “Russians versus Fischer”.
If we want to delve into the heart and soul of blitz reread Chapter 3 of Fred Waitzkin’s observant “Searching for Bobby Fischer” in which he colorfully reminisces about blitz games in Washington Square, New York.
Hi, are there any good books on blitz/bullet?
The only two that I have run across are:
1) Bullet Chess: One Minute to mate by Hikaru Nakamura
2) Blitz Theory: How to win at blitz chess by Jonathan Maxwell
Any other suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!