Could I break Blitz 2100 all of a sudden?

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AIM-AceMove

Yes for example GM Simon Williams sometimes drops to 2300 blitz, while 2000 otb amateur reach 2400 blitz and beats a lot title players. But many title players are inactive OTB (or they got their title as a kid and are not actually 2200+ or at Zonals where they have to score 50% with performance 1800-2000) or as GM Simon they are just little slow, probably becouse the more you know the more you look. A lot of them dont play much quick chess OTB and their only experience is online 3-5 min. I noticed they hardly premove and make only 4-5 moves if they have 10-15 seconds left no matter how easy is position, while others could make 20-30 moves.

In my case i have low OTB rating but my blitz and specially bullet online is higher. And thats what i am saying. I could not possible have better calculations, experience and skills than high rated otb experienced player and i should lose a lot in blitz, but i win (on time mostly)

Actually i just made a friend whos fide classic otb is 1900+ and his blitz here is 1550 (bullet 1650) last time i checked if i remember correctly.. so pretty chaostic.

But my point is if one have already high otb rating, there is no reason his online rating should be same - a lot of online players dont play OTB, so in order to win vs them you just have to be faster, becouse you are already  stronger, just move quick and thats it. Or maybe some people just cant move quick no matter what.. but why then they play it anyway...

solskytz

<Notmtwain> fluctuations are part of it... what can you do? You cannot ALWAYS be at your record score - especially when it comes to blitz. 

Mind you - 2040 is still better than my all-time record as of two days ago!

My daughter expressed the hope, that instead of being a player who fluctuates between the 1800s and the 1900s - I will now be one who goes between the 1900s and the 2000s... 

clever observation! It would be nice to say goodbye to 1800s (I was like 1880 maybe a week ago). 

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On another note - page ten of chess.com top blitz rating is under 2400!

This means that anybody hanging out in the 2000s can only look at NINE PAGES of chess.com players whom he can't realistically beat (except very rarely). 

Not bad for a simple amateur!

solskytz

<Jenium> Yeah!!! I'll make it!!!

<Mandy> Believe it or not, I reached all records without any mouse at all... just using that little touch pad under the keyboard. I guess it's ok too...

<Till_98> Right :-) I'm now waiting for that special inspiration to overtake me...

<MSC157> You really think that this should be the title? It sounds kind of predictable...

Here are a few alternatives:

- "Spanish Speakers do it better!"

I could try the direct - 

"2100 - myth or reality?"

or the more suave - 

"Will Earth be overtaken by zombies by 2100?"

then again, it might become - 

"Giant steps are what you take walking on the moon"

and then in the first post - "but not when improving record ratings at chess.com - I just made 2093!"

Likhit1

Ofcourse.I easily made it to 2200 from 2100 but it took me a while to get to 2100 lol.

AIM-AceMove

Yeah i am going 2000+ myself too sometimes next month or two when i resume from long brake to study but have to stop quick time controls in order to improve at classic.

solskytz

<AIM-AceMove> Simon Williams is an amazing, charismatic and very knowledgeable GM. His videos are very clever and entertaining. His wisdom and experiences shines!

The idea that I could actually beat him in a game just boggles the mind!

But as you explain it, if it's because of natural slowness, than what's the big deal, right? It's like he's giving us a handicap. Such GMs are still up there in the sky as players, as far as I'm concerned. They have very humbling amounts of knowledge. 

Regarding the last part of your post - 

"But my point is if one have already high otb rating, there is no reason his online rating should be same - a lot of online players dont play OTB, so in order to win vs them you just have to be faster, becouse you are already  stronger, just move quick and thats it. Or maybe some people just cant move quick no matter what.. but why then they play it anyway..."

I'm not sure that people who don't play OTB and reach here, say, Blitz 2040 (like my score right now) are necessarily weaker than me in any significant way - just because they don't play OTB. 

OTB is OTB and online blitz is online blitz... each involves a different skillset. The skillsets have common grounds, it is true - but it's a delicate balance of the mental mechanisms one uses in each one of these situations, and optimizing it for the task at hand. 

I'm currently "optimized" at OTB 1966, and at Chess.com blitz 2040 for what it's worth. 

If I moved faster against another player with blitz 2040 who has no OTB rating, I would blunder... the reason I reached blitz 2040 is because of my particular way of playing, including time use, for good or worse. 

If you can play faster and reach higher ratings, it doesn't mean that the same method would work for me...

Look at GM Williams - he plays much slower but of course is rated way higher. He would probably lose his balance (and points) if made to artificially accelerate his play. At the very least he would be made very uncomfortable. 

solskytz

<Likhit> very well done!

I see that your FIDE is in the 1800s - but it sometimes lags behind because of not enough opportunities for FIDE-rated play, or because of recent improvement not yet reflected in results. You must be quite a horror to face OTB. 

<AIM-AceMove> good luck with that!! :-) 

Likhit1

Yeah,a couple people accused me of cheating because of the huge disparity between my otb rating and chess.com blitz rating.The reason is two-fold,I play much better blitz than classical chess and I have very inconsisten results OTB,sometimes i do very well and sometimes i do very bad.Regardless,i completely agree with you.Online blitz and otb chess is a totally different ball game and doesnt make much sense to compare the two.Btw,Im sure you'll reach 2100 soon.It's only a matter of time once you touch the 90's.

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And once you touch the '80s, the '90s is only a matter of time!

solskytz

I touched them already :-) the new record is now 2090. Kind of tickles to get ten more points. We'll see when that happens...

Thanks for the encouragement!!

By the way - I was a bit too "blitzy" in my two last tournament games at full time controls. I had winning positions against two 2000 players - and lost both games to a one-move blunder which was played too fast, when I had plenty of time. Classical Dan Heisman material...

But what GM Smirnov teaches should take care of that problem too, if applied ALL THE TIME. 

And that's the challenge. 

OTB is more important to me than blitz, as it brings titles and I'd really like to get one - however of course I play far more blitz than tournament games, so it's nice to do well there too. 

WeLearnChess

That Knight journey was fun to watch!

solskytz

Yeah - that knight covered quite some terrain actually... :-) 

The hero of the story - he visited each and every region of the board. Only now I notice that at some point it made seven consecutive moves - sowing sorrow, shock and dismay wherever it went. 

(this is about the game I posted in the OP, to be sure). 

solskytz

Funny! As predicted above, it seems as though I DID say goodbye to 1800s. 

I had some crazy fluctuations, went up again to 2067, and then also dipped down - a couple of days ago was the lowest of low - and still, it didn't go lower than about 1918... the following day - up again to 2000s. 

Of course I'll update you when the record will break again. A question of time...