Look at the clocks. Some of these games turn out to be the same length as a 5/0 or 5/2. Close enough, at least.
This game is about the same quality as a 3-minute game played by 1250s on chess.com.
I'm not really sure what your point is but ...you're really not rated much higher than me. ICC is a more competitive player pool. That's well established. I obviously play at a much higher level than 1250 when we start moving to longer time controls like 30+30, 45+45, or 90+30.
I'm not highly rated but since you say you are equivalent strength to me,compare:
Your blitz rating after 200 games: <950ish
Mine after like many thosands of games (!): 1350-1450ish
You're deluding yourself if you want to keep telling yourself you're as strong as a 1400 blitz player here on chess.com.
So contrary to your post, I actually am rating significantly higher than you. If you're comparing my standard rating, you're using a flawed measure - I've played less than 6 standard games here.
I've never once said anywhere that I was playing 1400 blitz chess. I said standard chess. Which I am playing at a 1400+ level.
Nobody cares about your blitz rating, man. Your classical is all that matters and I'm a guy who's been around the game a year and is almost as highly rated as you (on this site). I'm rated almost 1500 in the 25+10 pool on ICC and I doubt you would be yourself. It's much more competitive on that server.
The point was that you shouldn't act all high and mighty when you're talking to a beginner who's almost at your level in a year. Obviously, I have more innate talent than you do.
And what I'm saying is that I'm not all high and mighty but trust me - you are NOT playing at OTB 1400 level. I was a USCF 1400 player before, so I know what it is.
And contrary to what you think having a blitz rating of 940 after 200 games says a lot about your overall chess ability. It sounds like your barrage of posts about 'long games' is self-denial, and trying to prove that your higher (more inflated) ratings are the 'true' measure of your chess ability, whereas anyone can see that a 940 blitz player here will get their pants clobbered in ANY time control by a 1400 blitz player here. It's nearly an order of magnitude difference in chess ability between the two. (Albeit, you can def make up ground fast and get to 1400 blitz quickly.)
I'm far from a strong player, but you're really deluding yourself if you think that you can play someone even at longer time controls if both your blitz ratings here are 940 (yours) and 1400+ (mine or someone else's.)
Forget about long vs blitz ratings, or trying to justify your rating by restricting use to long games. Just try and get better overall, and ALL of your ratings will get pulled upwards.
Interesting post. Thanks for chiming in.
Rough estimate: It seems like they're suggesting about 70% 90+30 and longer games (I guess we would include 45+45 into this) 20% 15 minute games, and 10% blitz games. It does revolve around a high volume of play and tactical training though.
You are very welcome.
Again, I think the spread really depends upon a number of considerations, such as age, how much analysis you are willing to put in, the particular player's weaknesses, and others. For example, many adult players don't analyze blitz at all. Therefore, the 10% proposal is probably good. However, between the consideration that blitz allows a player to see many, many more unique positions than spending the same allotment on longer games, and if the analysis performed finds the primary reasons for loss, etc., then the blitz could immediately become more valuable. A player with strong intuition for choosing candidate moves, but poor visualization and calculation, could find more value in longer games. While there certainly are universal rules that a re helpful in guiding players on which time controls to work on, none of these rules apply universally, because we are all unique in our needs. I have completely halted blitz, for example, because I am playing very creatively and intuitively, but not calculating well enough to confirm my intuition in long games; and so I often make erroneous moves in longer games, because I calculate my intuition's chosen candidate moves as fallacious and losing, though they are winning! What does it matter if I can pick the best moves in a blitz game, but cannot calculate and visualize well enough to verify these moves in a long USCF game?
On the age point, my coach and other players I speak to say that their youths play absoltely positively no long games except for USCF tournament games. They suck up patterns, ideas, and technique like it is nobody's business, and they get bored playin G/10 and longer. I see this in the long USCF games: I played a slow positional game against a kid rated around 1793, and he was bored to death. He played poor moves because of it. In such cases, something drastic, like close to 100% blitz, is the only kind of control that can be effective for learning, since they can't pay attention at longer controls, even if USCF classic points are on the line.
It's really surprising to me that coaches have so much difficulty in getting their youths to focus on longer time controls. I mean, I understand some are going to be more mature than others but you would think the satisfaction they get from a win would fuel them to dig deeper. Maybe it's just a sign of the times.
Basically, I've gotten to the point where I hardly ever hang a piece in anything 15/0 or longer. I can't remember the last time I hung anything other than a pawn unless I was literally down to seconds on the clock and just throwing everything at the enemy king. I figure as long as I can play stable, review worthy chess at this time control it will continue to help my opening understandings, tactics, and clock management. As for going to anything faster, I really don't know yet. I almost don't want to start with blitz at all again as since I haven't played it in nearly a month, my long game has improved significantly. That could also just be because I've studied and played so much. One might have nothing to do with the other.
What I do know is that if I show up to the chess club to play there's going to be some blitz. They all like playing 5/0 to warm up. Then again, I think we've established that the best preparation for blitz is long time controls. That said, I should see myself playing much better blitz chess than I did a month ago as my tactical vision and positional understanding has jumped up quite a bit.