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for the past couple of months, i have only played blitz. a few hundred 5 minute games. i can not improve. but my regular rating is 500 points higher than blitz. (1700-1200)so i dont suck. can anybody help me out here1!????

Avatar of AndyClifton

Sure.  Stop playing blitz.

Avatar of PLAYtoWINtheGAME

i want to improve on my quick thinking though. nothing is working

Avatar of heinzie

Please offer an alternative. In what way is Forum Trolling a better way of making a career than Playing Blitz?

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Hm...looks like it's about a tie. Smile

Avatar of Peedee
You only have 5 mins to find all your moves, you're bound to make some bad ones. It should have next to no affect in your slow game. You're not going to LEARN from Blitz however, except maybe pattern recognition and your openings. You need to study to learn.
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to heinzie

your an idiot. do not post on this forum again. thank you

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and this heinzie doesnt even play chess. he just responds to forums all day. hes played like 10 games in 3 years. what a loser. looks like he needs a friend. lol

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Will you be my friend?

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I seem to be the other way round, i can play blitz ok, but i'm useless at standard. Guess that just makes me a time player :/

Avatar of PLAYtoWINtheGAME

i do at times. for my more complex positions. i think it helps have a deeper understanding. 

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well i started regular games. 5 0f them. im 4-1 while playing 1300-1400 players. while in blitz, i win about 44% of my games while my opponent avg is 1308. good so far...

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heinzie, I can be your friend if you send me weed :P
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Sounds like time management mistakes to me.  Your slow games happen to be "covering/masking them" but they are clearly exposed in your faster games.

Look up Dan Heisman's Novice Nook titled the Two Triggers and give it a read. it might clue you into behaviors you are displaying in blitz games that are hurting you.

Another reason is that blitz without a time delay/increment is an entirely different game where race-condition monkey business/distractions/nonsense moves actually help you win games (atleast at the amateur level!)

Just trying play blitz with a 5-second increment and seeing if that suits you better.  This form of blitz is slightly more "chess" and less "game the bastard on the clock" and does not easily reward nonsensical moves the way 3-0 or 5-0 often does.

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heinzie wrote: Will you be my friend? Alliance with none, commerce with all.
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to heinzie

please post some more on this thread!!

don't be discouraged by what the OP said (after all, he's from jersey)

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Of course. But before you I have found no reason to add more in this thread.
Bodhiwan I don't have direct access to such mind stimulae, I cannot be of help and I guess that also cancels your offer of friendship. I didn't understand the meaning of Rubidium's quote.

Playtowinthegame uttered the observation that I need one friend more - and he may well be right. That's why I inquired if that might have been an indirect offer to be my new friend, considering his apparently kind and generous type of character, he probably has room in his heart for one more person. No response unfortunately.

Moreover, playtowinthegame made the casual observation that I am a big loser; but surprisingly not on the right grounds - because I have played only three games. If only he knew thatn umber is a lot closer to fifty thousand... probably my new friend will see that as even more confirmation and consider me the biggest loser of the Interweb. Aawww... :p

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That was just something Jefferson said, I think.
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uhohspaghettio wrote:
PLAYtoWINtheGAME wrote:

to heinzie

your an idiot. do not post on this forum again. thank you


Amen to that. He's a god damned idiot. Everyone hates him. He's a useless joke poster, I can't believe the mods allow him to continue with it.


And as in heinzie's post above yours, he is now playing the victim, even though his first post in this thread was intended to offend the OP.

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No offense to Heinz, but u must have no life. Ur always posting on this chess site. But u don't play chess on this CHESS site!! I don't get it. Can u offer some kind of reasonable explanation for this?