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Jul 17, 2021
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#4
Try daily chess mate. You’ll have a lot more time to think and look for tactics in positions. You’ll improve faster over all and play Rapid better too. Blitz is just useless to you since you obviously have little pattern recognition (that’s expected and ok! You’ll increase it over time!) so just avoid that altogether for now.
Jul 17, 2021
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#5
I agree. I think YouTube and he internet, has made people so excited over blitz and rapid.
Jul 17, 2021
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#6
KxKmate wrote:
Try daily chess mate. You’ll have a lot more time to think and look for tactics in positions. You’ll improve faster over all and play Rapid better too. Blitz is just useless to you since you obviously have little pattern recognition (that’s expected and ok! You’ll increase it over time!) so just avoid that altogether for now.
The same thing is occurring to me mate, I easily passed through the 800 rating without a problem, but I'm stuck at mid-900's. I possible think that you should try to just memorise one or two openings, while devoting the rest of your time to Middle Game and End Game strategy. Try to solve puzzles as they would help you with your pattern recognition. And lastly, play aggressively and try to be the first to attack as well as punish the opponent's miscalculation. And due to the big difference between the Elos of the pros at 900 and noobs at 400, it would be a good idea to play Blitz and Rapid seperately because what's pro to a 400 might be terrible to play against a 900 rated player. plus my Puzzle rating is 1200's.
Jul 17, 2021
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PresentColony wrote:
The same thing is occurring to me mate, I easily passed through the 800 rating without a problem, but I'm stuck at mid-900's. I possible think that you should try to just memorise one or two openings, while devoting the rest of your time to Middle Game and End Game strategy. Try to solve puzzles as they would help you with your pattern recognition. And lastly, play aggressively and try to be the first to attack as well as punish the opponent's miscalculation. And due to the big difference between the Elos of the pros at 900 and noobs at 400, it would be a good idea to play Blitz and Rapid seperately because what's pro to a 400 might be terrible to play against a 900 rated player. plus my Puzzle rating is 1200's.
Memorizing openings is awful advice to someone who can't navigate the middlegame
Yes, that's my point, people at 400 to 900 aren't your typical chess nerds who memorise like 50 lines of the best moves in the openings. Plus, learning middlegame and endgame strategy can be the foundations for playing more advanced openings, attacks, gambits as well as winning more games and increasing your ratings ultimately.
Jul 17, 2021
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DaBabysBurner wrote:
PresentColony wrote:
The same thing is occurring to me mate, I easily passed through the 800 rating without a problem, but I'm stuck at mid-900's. I possible think that you should try to just memorise one or two openings, while devoting the rest of your time to Middle Game and End Game strategy. Try to solve puzzles as they would help you with your pattern recognition. And lastly, play aggressively and try to be the first to attack as well as punish the opponent's miscalculation. And due to the big difference between the Elos of the pros at 900 and noobs at 400, it would be a good idea to play Blitz and Rapid seperately because what's pro to a 400 might be terrible to play against a 900 rated player. plus my Puzzle rating is 1200's.
Memorizing openings is awful advice to someone who can't navigate the middlegame
You do need to know some openings if you are playing white and converse know the basic way to play against those as black
Jul 17, 2021
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#11
millerd66 wrote:
DaBabysBurner wrote:
PresentColony wrote:
The same thing is occurring to me mate, I easily passed through the 800 rating without a problem, but I'm stuck at mid-900's. I possible think that you should try to just memorise one or two openings, while devoting the rest of your time to Middle Game and End Game strategy. Try to solve puzzles as they would help you with your pattern recognition. And lastly, play aggressively and try to be the first to attack as well as punish the opponent's miscalculation. And due to the big difference between the Elos of the pros at 900 and noobs at 400, it would be a good idea to play Blitz and Rapid seperately because what's pro to a 400 might be terrible to play against a 900 rated player. plus my Puzzle rating is 1200's.
Memorizing openings is awful advice to someone who can't navigate the middlegame
You do need to know some openings if you are playing white and converse know the basic way to play against those as black
It's good to learn openings but memorizing lines is just setting yourself up for failure
Jul 17, 2021
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#12
Learning and memorizing the first 5 or 6 lines is essentially the same thing
Jul 17, 2021
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#13
millerd66 wrote:
Learning and memorizing the first 5 or 6 lines is essentially the same thing
no it's not, what do you do after the line ends? You'll have no idea how to maneuver in the position/how to make progress
millerd66 wrote:
I agree. I think YouTube and he internet, has made people so excited over blitz and rapid.
Chess players were playing blitz long-long before the internet came. At least since the chess clock was invented, and probably even before that.
Jul 17, 2021
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magipi wrote:
millerd66 wrote:
I agree. I think YouTube and he internet, has made people so excited over blitz and rapid.
Chess players were playing blitz long-long before the internet came. At least since the chess clock was invented, and probably even before that.
So you are saying that the internet and YouTube has not increased the amount of blitz play?
Jul 17, 2021
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#16
DaBabysBurner wrote:
millerd66 wrote:
Learning and memorizing the first 5 or 6 lines is essentially the same thing
no it's not, what do you do after the line ends? You'll have no idea how to maneuver in the position/how to make progress
The opening t
ad the middle are two different things. You can memorize the opening but at the same time learn the middle game.
since you in your mind you are convinced, a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still… so you are right
Jul 17, 2021
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#17
memorizing opening lines doesn't help you learn what pawn breaks, piece transfers, defensive maneuvers etc the position requires but whatever
DaBabysBurner wrote:
memorizing opening lines doesn't help you learn what pawn breaks, piece transfers, defensive maneuvers etc the position requires but whatever
Who cares
Hey all!
I am rated 900 rapid, 400 blitz. Been doing puzzles daily at about 1700.
I thought all this tactical training would help but I can’t seem to carry over onto full games and often over think trying to find a tactical pattern and get into time trouble and blunder the position.
Any help?