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I can recommend that you play long games more than short games. In order to be good at short games, you need good board vision. Long games improve that (by long games I mean 20+ min games) If you learn your openings, you can also save time in shorter games. It sounds like you get into time trouble due to your ratings, so I think you just need to improve time efficiency. Bullet is just moving pieces without thinking, so don't worry about that rating. Try to work on your standard and then work on the blitz. Gl and I hope I helped
I can recommend that you play long games more than short games. In order to be good at short games, you need good board vision. Long games improve that (by long games I mean 20+ min games) If you learn your openings, you can also save time in shorter games. It sounds like you get into time trouble due to your ratings, so I think you just need to improve time efficiency. Bullet is just moving pieces without thinking, so don't worry about that rating. Try to work on your standard and then work on the blitz. Gl and I hope I helped
I took off from chess for a good 3-4 years and my chess.com account is new so results may look backwards.
My bullet rating is 1579 (based on nearly 2,000 games), it was a 1700ish until this month when I started playing again and it dropped to 1300ish in days, took a few days of playing 3-5 hours a day to bounce back to the 1600 range.
I just started playing blitz, but I find myself comforable in the same range (again, chess.com account is new, not even five game I think, so don't go off of it).
Deep Fritz 12 says my rating is 2070 this month since coming back to the game (that's standard 90min time controls) right now so my problem seems to be is board vision when playing blitz chess or faster. Below is one of my games against the Crafty engine preset at 2400 this month, compare that to the quality of my blitz games and it's night and day. I joined chess.com for the tactics training to get my brain back in the right frame of mind. It's been so long that the only deep variations I remember without having to ponder are against the Pirc, the Nadjorf, Caro-Kahn Advance, and the lines of Semi-Slav/Meran.
IntrepidAttack:
61... Qf3 62. Ka2 Rc2+ 63. Kb1 Qd1#
63... Ra3+ 64. Kb4 Qc5#
Thaddeus_Samson wrote:
IntrepidAttack:
61... Qf3 62. Ka2 Rc2+ 63. Kb1 Qd1#
63... Ra3+ 64. Kb4 Qc5#
You're right, I had under five mins left so I had a little time pressure. Spent so much time in the middle and I knew it was won. I think Crafty should of resigned earlier.
So I couldn't help but notice my ratings are like stairsteps depending on which style of chess I play.
Bullet 1 or 2 minutes - 1000's (Stuck here)
Blitz 5 or 10 minute - 1100/1200s (Stuck here)
Standard 15 minute - 1300s (I could probably get this into the 1400s fairly easy)
Online 1 to 3 days - 1400s (Stuck here)
So it looks like I play worse with less time to think. All of my ratings are low but I am annoyed that my fast game ratings are so low. I want all of my ratings the same. Is playing Bullet and Blitz good for your game or do they inject lazy patterns into your game? I don't think as much when I play them. I move to good looking squares because I don't have a lot of time but sometimes I find myself moving fast in games with longer time limits and I know I shouldn't.