Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Honestly I think until you improve in rating openings barely matter. Lessen the principles of openings, but spend time on endgames and middlegames
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
Sorry I was looking at rapid 900-1000, but even past that endgames should be prioritized way more, and streamers like Gothamchess make it seem like you need to learn an opening and make countless vids on them for ~1000s to see. I am learning the Najdorf now, trying to slowly learn openings, but I find midgames and such to be more effective.
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
How can u have had a FIDE of 1550 if u were never a member of FIDE
Did you read my entire post?
Our club captain kept a list of our ratings and mine fluctuated from 1450, up and down 200 pts, 1450 being the low end. He called it a FIDE list. Maybe he registered us and maybe he didn't. I never interrogated him about it.
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Well first of all I think you should replace the Sicilian with the caro-kann since the sicilian is just extremely theory heavy. You can keep playing the e4 openings but you should definitely try testing a couple d4 openings like the queen's gambit.
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
How can u have had a FIDE of 1550 if u were never a member of FIDE
Fair point, this comment was commented when I was commenting, but I thought the same thing. People tell me I play higher then 1500, and game review often gives me 2000+ rated analysis, but I’m not actually there until I am. I want to get a fide rating too, but I shouldn’t calculate what I’ll be until I start playing. If you’ve ever heard the song ‘the gambler’ I’m pretty sure it said something like that too
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
How can u have had a FIDE of 1550 if u were never a member of FIDE
Did you read my entire post?
Our club captain kept a list of our ratings and mine fluctuated from 1450, up and down 200 pts, 1450 being the low end. He called it a FIDE list. Maybe he registered us and maybe he didn't. I never interrogated him about it.
Made same mistake, but still…
How do you know my rating? My rating here is vastly understated. seriously. Many years ago I had a FIDE of 1550 (at least that's what our club captain said, I never was a FIDE member) but took a 10 year break. My bullet rating is only so low because of poor management.
Sorry I was looking at rapid 900-1000, but even past that endgames should be prioritized way more, and streamers like Gothamchess make it seem like you need to learn an opening and make countless vids on them for ~1000s to see. I am learning the Najdorf now, trying to slowly learn openings, but I find midgames and such to be more effective.
Yes if I was living my best life, as the kids say, I would study all aspects of the game each week. Chess club was a great idea, at the time.
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Well first of all I think you should replace the Sicilian with the caro-kann since the sicilian is just extremely theory heavy. You can keep playing the e4 openings but you should definitely try testing a couple d4 openings like the queen's gambit.
I tried QG and now I love it and it’s all I play. Would recommend playing d4 as a change-up though. Why caro though…
I respect your feelings. Your idea...meh
We should play a rapid game sometime and then we'll see if ur really 1550 FIDE strength
You are welcome to review my games and if you send a rapid challenge I will accept if the timing is right.
Chess (and especially the way I learned the game) is an entrenching game. Read: pathology.
I don't lose much I've gained because I learn by doing as opposed to reading. Many people are the opposite (learn by reading) and they may not lose what they learn either. I don't know, I just know my own experience.
Looking at your account I immediately notice you’ve barely played rapid and blitz (400 total) and main bullet (1500) and I find it actually hurts your chess instead of helping. I would recommend 10|0 for improving, if you’ve got the time. (I imagine you do of up were going to learn the Najdorf)
400 games is barely...haha it is all relative. You outta see my old accounts, or maybe you have.
I should definitely play more rapid but I usually think "just one bullet game". Then I invest 20 or 30 minutes. So yeah, one or two rapid games would be better.
I respect your feelings. Your idea...meh
We should play a rapid game sometime and then we'll see if ur really 1550 FIDE strength
We are already friends, you know
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Well first of all I think you should replace the Sicilian with the caro-kann since the sicilian is just extremely theory heavy. You can keep playing the e4 openings but you should definitely try testing a couple d4 openings like the queen's gambit.
I tried QG and now I love it and it’s all I play. Would recommend playing d4 as a change-up though. Why caro though…
Caro is actually really good and people just think it's bad because gothamchess glazes it all the time(yes that's true but it doesn't mean the Caro is bad). It's also fairly easy to learn which makes it really good for ~1000 players
This isn't a chess hot take really but guys should I try blitz and bullet? I literally only do rapid and I'm like 400 blitz and bullet. I kinda wanna get my blitz and bullet up. Am I good enough now to start doing these time controls because people have told me not to do blitz until I get semi good at chess otherwise it'll make me worse at the game.
Bullet imo isn't that important and it's really just for fun but blitz is pretty good. You should probably keep focusing on rapid chess over blitz but playing it once in a while is pretty fun and it improves your intuition and instinct though too much of it is bad for you.
Yes exactly. First, as you (@crotonninja1isagm) mostly play 10|0, Blitz can help to improve your intuition and get better to deal with a position when you're in time scramble. And past a certain level (around 2200 I would say), rapid is not considered as the main time control, but Blitz is, because everyone at that level can calculate difficult things further, so the way to see who is superior is to see who can do it the fastest. Imo intuition should be trained as much as calculation to improve in the most efficient way.
This is one of the problems I have argued exists with Chess960 keeping to just the traditional pieces. If it’s overwhelmingly the titled players even playing the game, they will just lazily ignore the standard time controls practically altogether.
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Well first of all I think you should replace the Sicilian with the caro-kann since the sicilian is just extremely theory heavy. You can keep playing the e4 openings but you should definitely try testing a couple d4 openings like the queen's gambit.
I tried QG and now I love it and it’s all I play. Would recommend playing d4 as a change-up though. Why caro though…
Caro is actually really good and people just think it's bad because gothamchess glazes it all the time(yes that's true but it doesn't mean the Caro is bad). It's also fairly easy to learn which makes it really good for ~1000 players
Fairly easy to learn is good. French defence, alekhine, Nc6, are all also good for that you don’t need theory since your opponent won’t have it.
Hot Take: Eminem is 🔥. Ig that is hot.
I need another opening to practice, expanding repertoire.
What openings do you know already?
Well I play e4 99% of the time, Ruy and Italian. I play a lot of KID and Sicilian. I need to study Najdorf. I'm going to look into Nf3, I stopped playing 1. Nf3 because I couldn't figure out how/when to push e pawn. Any ideas Smiley?
Well first of all I think you should replace the Sicilian with the caro-kann since the sicilian is just extremely theory heavy. You can keep playing the e4 openings but you should definitely try testing a couple d4 openings like the queen's gambit.
I tried QG and now I love it and it’s all I play. Would recommend playing d4 as a change-up though. Why caro though…
Caro is actually really good and people just think it's bad because gothamchess glazes it all the time(yes that's true but it doesn't mean the Caro is bad). It's also fairly easy to learn which makes it really good for ~1000 players
Fairly easy to learn is good. French defence, alekhine, Nc6, are all also good for that you don’t need theory since your opponent won’t have it.
Rarely anyone knows much theory against the caro-kann as white even at our levels. There is also a variation of the caro-kann called the botvinnik-carls defense which I really like and is very similar to the french defense except the light squared bishop can get out and isn't rendered useless from the start.
tag give me one reason M&L games are better than other games e.g. Fortnite, or Valorant
story.