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Feb 12, 2019
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#23
I analyzed my games and it turned out I play the strongest moves when I play stronger players. The fear actually makes you better and sharpens your intellect.
Feb 12, 2019
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#24
little_guinea_pig wrote:
Destroyer942 wrote:
I analyzed my games and it turned out I play the strongest moves when I play stronger players. The fear actually makes you better and sharpens your intellect.
Meh.... I usually panic and play awfully
Well based on your blitz rating alone, from my perspective you never play "awfully". Maybe just worse then usual...
Feb 12, 2019
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#25
Sometimes it backfires, though, An opponent may be intimidated by another opponents rating, especially in cases when its 100 plus their own. They play poorly instead of strong. Likewise, a strong opponent will sometimes get beaten by a player 100 points minus their own rating. The best defense in chess: Just stay calm, think sharply, keep an eye on your king, and play the best move possible. And feel free to disable your chat, if your opponent chooses to use the chat room as a weapon. Some feel this is part of the game. I, myself, do not.
Feb 12, 2019
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#26
krazykat1975 wrote:
Sometimes it backfires, though, An opponent may be intimidated by another opponents rating, especially in cases when its 100 plus their own. They play poorly instead of strong. Likewise, a strong opponent will sometimes get beaten by a player 100 points minus their own rating. The best defense in chess: Just stay calm, think sharply, keep an eye on your king, and play the best move possible. And feel free to disable your chat, if your opponent chooses to use the chat room as a weapon. Some feel this is part of the game. I, myself, do not.
lol the chat room as a weapon. You reminded me of this one guy I played who got up a rook on me and kept saying that I'm wasting his time. He was calling me all sorts of insults and then blundered his queen, losing the game almost instantly. He was so mad that he started cussing me out and challenged me to a rematch, only to wait for the duration of the 5 minutes while continuing to cuss me out. I looked at the guy's profile and it later turned out I ruined his win streak. Moral of the story, idiots don't deserve to be heard---disable chat when you play one.
little_guinea_pig wrote:
... I think that playing and analyzing some games with a strong player is the very best way to improve! For example, three months ago I was scuffling around 1000, and then I played some games with @Vicariously-I. Right after that I gained 600 rating points...….
"... Keep in mind that there is only a weak relationship between the skills of being a good player (which requires little or no interpersonal communication skills) and the ability to instruct (which requires excellent communication skills). …"
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627082829/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman21.pdf
Chessscrub69 wrote:
I'm not going into detail here, but sometimes higher level players really tick me off in this community sometimes. Apparently they came out of the womb GM's and never blunder.
I play scholastic chess, and I do not claim to be good. Online, my blitz rating is in the 1500,'s. Over the board, I am 1045 at the time being. I once searched "what's a good elo", and according to one post I read, players 0-1000 are so bad they essentially play moves at random, and players 1100-1200 are only a step above them. I feel like I am much improved since when I started chess, and even then, my skill was not THAT bad; my moves had some amount of logic.
I don't know, I'm just curious. Be honest with me, is my rating terrible? I intend to maybe post games later on as well. Maybe get tips....
That's all. Thanks for listening to me whine about my skill, or lack thereof.
I remember 3 years ago I was just a 1200 on this site(another account,not this one) and I used to go up and down a lot. one day I lost so many games I think I might have been on tilt or something, then my rating dropped to something like 1000 in blitz.I'm serious dude! but the next week I returned and played some more and I began to win so many games in a row it was like doing a speedrun now that I think about it! anyway I got back to 1200, and when I played that last game I was so happy to achieve this that I wrote to my opponent "yaaaaay, back on 1200's" and to my surprise my opponent replied "LOL". I mean I was really new to chess and really did NOT know that 1200 is such a low rating that I'm not supposed to feel that happy about it. but I was happy with it because for me it was an achievement that I had to work hard for. I always celebrated these little things and they keep me going, and now 3 years later I am a 1900 trying to become a 2000 in blitz. and I am not even playing that much. It's also worth mentioning that in this relatively short period of time I have managed to beat 2 NMs and 2 FMs in both blitz and bullet!
so what I'm trying to say is, don't worry about comparing yourself to others. just focus on improving yourself and celebrate those little achievements proudly. and that's just it!
your bullet rating is higher than mine, so I guess you are a faster chess player than me and many others (including masters, because there are many titled 1600s on this site when you play bullet, which I'm sure you've noticed) so no you are not terrible at all.
Sadly, I've seen posts by players in the 1600's that lacked some fundamental chess knowlege. There are ways for players to game the system to get a higher rating. Players around 1900 to 2000 have enough chess chess knowlege that they will crush people "gaming the system".
Between 1650 and 1900 is kinda in between. Even if they manage to "game the system", the player will only be gaming it for 50 to 100 points above their true strength, unless the person is freaking diehard for rating points they don't deserve. Then they almost exclusively play players under their own rating, incrementing up their own rating at a glacial pace.
In my opinion, if you are talking about FIDE rating, we can say something like: 0-1000 beginner; 1000-1350 weak; 1350-1600 standart; 1600-2000 strong; +2000 masters. Of course, that this means what it means. Long time ago, I played in a club, fighting for the championship and my rating was awful compared with my team mates. Then, i moved home and had to change club. It was a lot weaker and i was one of the main players. Ratings are useful for compare players, but depending on your goals, can be subjectively different.
Humans blunder all the time. I had a recent game where I miscalculated and ended up four pawns down. I swithched to pressuring the opponent's king. It apparently spooked him and he pulled back the only piece he was seriously harrassing me with. All he had to do was focus on defending his king and push pawns. Anyway he made a fatal error and I won. So my fatal blunder was met by my opponent making a later fatal blunder.
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
so you both lost!
Pretty much. He had a pretty easy win, but was only focused on keeping his attack going on the kingside. I'm not even sure he was aware that he was up four pawns. It was the kingside attack he erred. There was a moment he was forced to move his knight offensively, being only one possible move to do that, but missed that opportunity. It allowed me to, after a two or three move combination, pick up his rook, immedietly negating his four pawn advantage.
I'm on vacation, and by the time I get back, there is zero probability I'm going to try and dig out a random blitz game from weeks ago. 😂
Sep 28, 2019
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#33
Caesar49bc wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
so you both lost!
Pretty much. He had a pretty easy win, but was only focused on keeping his attack going on the kingside. I'm not even sure he was aware that he was up four pawns. It was the kingside attack he erred. There was a moment he was forced to move his knight offensively, being only one possible move to do that, but missed that opportunity. It allowed me to, after a two or three move combination, pick up his rook, immedietly negating his four pawn advantage.
I'm on vacation, and by the time I get back, there is zero probability I'm going to try and dig out a random blitz game from weeks ago. 😂
You will one day. When you become a GM.
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I've never been nearly as good at fast play as I have at slow...just look at my current numbers. That being said, I've been away from the game for the last twelve years or so. I'm 34 years old. When I was 19 I was playing at about a 2000 level (otb, not online - I didn't play much online back then) when playing slower games/tourney games with classical clock settings. However...I totally quit playing by the age of twenty to pursue tail, alcohol, and the like. Thus...now that I've taken chess back (and my life back away from those youthful pursuits) up in the last month (seriously, too, not just dabbling -- I got the books out of the attic and managed to scrounge around and find my old analysis set for study) or so after having put it away for a little over a decade, it is frustrating to find myself back at the bottom of this massive hill. I am undeterred. OP, you should be undeterred, too...don't listen to the abysmal Scottsman with his "I sTuDieeD aND SuK wuRSE!" nonsense. That's not normal. Bah on that crap. It sounds to me like you must be tactically sharp (your blitz rating) and able to commit good lines to memory, but maybe suffering in the positional department. When I was a teenager, I hit a slump at around the 1700 level...I was devoting a LOT of time to tactical study. Then I read two books: "Amateur's Mind" and later, "How to Reassess Your Chess" by IM Jeremy Silman...these books teach a LOT about how imbalances relate to positional play. They may well be what you need to help your play at slower time settings. I'll say what others are not. Your 1500 Blitz = pretty good Your 1045 slow = sucks Don't be a cupcake...suck it up and grind it out. A can-do attitude will help you increase your rating whereas "can't" never could.
What does level 47 wizard have to do with being a blowhard? I agree, I think this site is full of blowhards. I don't think he was calling YOU one, Bacon. I think for the most part, people should just disregard their ELO, and just enjoy the game. Recently, I wanted to give some advice to the beginners so that they could enjoy the game a little better, because maybe 20 defeats or so in a row DOES take the fun out of the game. 1500 blitz? I won't see it for awhile. I don't care too, either. Don't worry about it, most players ELO goes up and down, even grandmasters. I watched recently a grandmaster go from number 1 to number 20. As long as your having fun, and having a blast using the brain God gave you, I think you've conquered half the battle of what chess is all about.