10 minute chess is not enough for an improving player

Kramnik_ChessRU · 2024-05-05T05:02:04-07:00

You can not really calculate well in this time control. It's barely worth analysing because you simply didn't have enough time. My last game was kind an example of this... One of so many. I am always looking for big knockouts, trying to avoid blunders and spot tactics. For an classical otb

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Hoffmann713

May 6, 2024

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Gimfain ha scritto:

(...) playing 10 minute chess (...) both sides will make errors and fail to notice errors simply because there isn't enough time to properly calculate the moves.

Indeed. In my own small way, I can see it very well in this period that, due to lack of time, I almost only play blitz.

When I play 15|10 and even slower, the blunder is almost never missing, but it is due to distraction.

When I play blitz, I do a lot of blunders and mistaks exactly because I don't have time to check well that my pieces are not under threat, that there's a fork that my opponent can make, that I'm about to take a corridor checkmate, etc.