Chess 101 for Chess Competitors

And I am the one supposed to feel guilty in this thread ?

If someone starts saying the Earth is flat and every subsequent poster refutes their point, is it a "group of people finding a target" ? And should these posters disguise their posts in a diplomatic way to avoid making ennemies ?

The OP has abused people before (see here, for instance) for no reason. It would need a good dose of hypocrisy to feel touchy about the choice of words after that.

Ubik42 and Irontiger,

It is clear that both of you are merely attempting troll this topic with your inflammatory comments.  It is actually sad to see two immature members of this site posting non-sense while someone is actually attempting to do something good.

I have received over 35 messages from members regarding ways to improve their blitz chess skills.  However, many are afraid to post comments on this topic because they do not wish to be trolled by the two of you.

If anyone looks at your comments, then they will immediately notice that none of your comments offer anything of substance for developing players.  For that reason, I ask that you refrain from trolling this thread any further and to remain on topic. 

Darth, your prose are thoroughly unpersuasive.

Sign up for a tutorial with Yoda, please.  "Do, or do not.  There is no try."

ArtOfDeception,

I have noticed that you are posting comments that are critical of other members and their posts, but you have yet to post anything of substance on this particular topic.  Because of this, I believe that you are just another sad Troll as well. 

I don't expect everyone on an online site to be decent people.  In fact, I expect the opposite.  I expect arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity.  However, when someone who is supposedly rated above 2000+ comes onto a topic and criticizes my chess skill without even playing me, I find it difficult to understand how such a player can call himself a man? 

After all, I have challenged you to blitz matches in any format 3/0, 5/0, 10/0 to demonstrate my chess skills.  You made the claim that I am a weak chess player.  While such a comment is indeed offensive, I can understand how someone who merely stands at a distance can make such offensive comments without having the balls to prove it.  Such a person can fittingly be described as a coward. 

Any objective observer will be able to notice at first glance that I did not go out of my way to find you and pick a fight with you.  The fact is that you made the conscious decision to come onto this topic and pick a fight with me... the great Darth_Doom.  I am quite frankly one of the greatest blitz chess players on chess.com and as such, I am definitely the wrong chess player to pick a fight with.  However, in your attempt to be condescending, you underestimated me and made the mistake of viewing me as an easy target when I am the exact opposite.

Someone with your supposedly 2000+ rating might find it hard to comprehend this or even to bring yourself to accept it.  For that reason, I offer to demonstrate how truly overrated you really are...  You would literally stand no chance against me in blitz chess and I would welcome the opportunity to walk right through you and step all over your worthless, meaningless rating. 

If you do not wish to demonstrate that you have the balls to back up your insults, then just go and troll some other topic and find some weak pathetic fool to insult.  Otherwise, challenge me to several blitz chess matches and I will gladly put you in your place.

maybe this is all a sham put on by Darth Doom to get 2000+ players to finally accept his game invites lol

Spoken like a true coward.

ArtofDeception, 

You only came on this topic to troll and to post insults that you cannot back up.

I do not use an engine and would not need an engine to defeat an overrated player such as yourself.  

The fact remains that you are the one who picked this fight and now you want to tuck your tail and hide in the shadows, pretending that you will not receive a fair fight.  Pathetic.

As I stated before, you should simply troll some weak fools and stay out of the path of someone of my skill level.  If we ever played those blitz matches, then I would make you eat your words and expose you for the overrated player that you are...

Ilove_Mating...  

Your comment like the other morons who have trolled this topic adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.  What makes you think that I give a damn about what you think or your so called advice which is just another misguided insult.  

You are just another fool who posts comments on this site pretending to speak for a whole mass of unidentified members who you supposedly represent.  Your uninformed comment simply shows that you chose to focus on several posts rather than making a fair assessment of my comments to members on this site.  I have been more than accommodating to players who have a true desire to learn blitz chess and to develop a mastery of chess.  In fact, I have gone out of my way to help many members.  Of course, I do not expect you to know that because of your limited experience as a member with less than 1 month of experience on chess.com.  You are an immature little noob with only a total of four 5/0 blitz matches on chess.com to date.  In fact, you epitomize what can only be described as an overrated player.  Yes, you won a few games against several push overs and after setting your rating on March 1, 2014, you have not played blitz chess since...  Why not... pray tell...  I will tell you why.  You have not played blitz chess since that time because you are AFRAID TO LOSE.  You got lucky won a match on a mistake and you know that you cannot possibly maintain your rating.  So, what do you do?  You stop playing blitz chess altogether.     

Judging from your comment here, I would say that you are quite the hypocrite in real life.  I know many like you who are quick to point the finger to condemn others while failing to look in the mirror.  For that reason, you are likely the type that is quick to state an opinion thinking that others should listen.  The fact is that no one should listen to your statements because you don't even recognize your own hypocrisy.  

I look upon people like you and laugh because I know that deep down inside, you are weak and easily broken with just the slightest amount of pressure.  With time, you will break and prove incapable of overcoming adversity in its most slightest forms.

As it stands, you have only played a total of four 5/0 blitz matches on chess.com and you are in no position to lecture anyone about what they should or should not do... say or not say.  And if your knowledge about my posts on this forum has been accrued over your limited experience on chess.com (Member since February 20, 2014), then I would only expect that you would value your opinions more than I do.  

The truth is Ilove_mating, you don't know much, you hardly even play blitz chess and you have no business posting smack on any topic on this forum.  

Another good book to add to a growing collection is entitled:

Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part I

• Hardcover: 520 pages
• Publisher: Everyman Chess; First edition (October 18, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857446720
• ISBN-13: 978-1857446722

RULE NUMBER THREE:

NEVER BOW DOWN TO YOUR OPPONENT

This rule is rather self explanatory.

Too many players look upon their opponents with unwarranted fear.  You need to be able to set your feelings aside and just play the game.  If you win, you win.  If you lose, who cares.  However, if you care too much, then you will definitely lose.  Be a free spirit.  Be like water my friend.  

True... I will approve that

Agreeing with you does not mean I am your student

This is one of the most important rules in chess.  It is similar to reaching a state of Zen and a balance.

Useful advice for rising chess players:

"To get better, you need to be able to try new things during a game to see what happens, but you also need to be able to turn IT on when you want to.

Take my games for instance... if someone looks at my rating and record, they will think that I am a mid 1600 level player, but that's not true.  I regularly let opponents take the advantage in matches to learn what I would do in a particular situation. I end up losing some of those games because in those matches, I willingly gave my opponent a free Queen or a free Rook or advanced my pawns to strange positions just to see how the opponents react.  Then when I want to, I put it all together and use multiple things together to defeat my opponents easily.  That's chess.

It's only alright to lose if you know why, how, and the variables that led to your loss.  It is not alright to get plastered, push the rematch button, get plastered again, push the rematch button, get plastered again, and simply bang your face into the wall.  Would a fighter learn anything by letting someone hit him in the face with their fist repeatedly while the fighter just stood there?  Think about it.

You will run into many morons and losers on this site who just don't have what it takes to be great chess players.  They are often overrated and quite simply worthless twits who will jump at the opportunity to trash talk after winning matches that they had no business winning."

Every developing chess player needs to at some point determine how much he or she is willing to do to get better.  It's a necessary question.  Some people are unwilling to devote themselves to becoming great players.  It's unfortunate but true.

Just remember, keep playing chess no matter what...

Is Darth_Doom the same person as Ultimate_Fighter?
Or is it just another crazed egomaniac who loves MMA, thinks he is the best at everything, insults everyone, and has little capability for logical reasoning or introspection?

• RULE NUMBER FOUR:  PLAY MORE CHESS

  
  This may sound quite elementary, but the fact is that many young and developing players do not play enough chess. 

  To truly get better, you need to practice your craft and develop a passion for the game of chess.  That is the only way that you will get better.  There really is no 15 minute per day get better quick scheme that I will identify for you or lead you to embrace.  Absolutely not.  In reality, honing your skills takes upwards of 2 to 3 hours of chess time per day with your deepest undivided attention. 

  If you are dedicated to winning, then you need to clear your mind for the task ahead.  It doesn't matter who you play against.  Compete against lesser opponents, better opponents, computers, engines... anything.  Just play more chess.  With today's technology, there is no excuse.  Play chess on your phone, on your computer, on your desk, on the floor, anywhere, just find a way to work the games into your life until it becomes second nature to play at least 2 to 3 hours of chess per day.  Chess.com is an excellent way to get challenging opponents and with the available tournaments, make sure that you play at least 3 tournaments per week. 

  Keep track of your progress.  Write down your mistakes. 

  Read more chess books, study openings, end games, chess philosophy... anything you can get your hands on.  If you want it bad enough, then go out there and get it.  Improve your skills the hard way.
  

  This can take sacrifice and a lot of dedication.  Some players over do it by devoting their entire being to chess and they end up going crazy. 

  However, there is really no way around devoting enough time to the game of chess.  In order to get better and to improve your ability to think, evaluate, and act quickly and under pressure, you need to play more chess.

  That likely means that a dedicated chess player should throw away the Cocky Doodle 4; ignore the new Hole for Xbox 3000; and stop watching porn in the morning and before bed.  Put away the posters of Kate Upton.  Stop the lousy text messaging and close your Facebook account.  Take down your Pinterest page because no one cares. You need to be committed to this task.  

  Throw away the case of lube, burn your stockpile of weed and return the case of gold colored condoms.  You will not need any of that junk.  Put your computer in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed, turn off the cell phone, close the door, and ignore the irritating girlfriends who are constantly trying to take your money and beg for your attention.  This is chess damnit!!! 
  

  So the skinny is that developing chess minds need to take the game more seriously, stop jerking off, and get to work.  It takes hard work to become a great blitz chess player.  Anyone who tells you otherwise or says that you can do it with just 30 minutes a day is just lying to your face while slapping your head from behind.

  
  Wake up and open your damn eyes to what it really takes to become a great blitz chess player.  It's time to take your head away from your ankles and its time to bend your opponents over the barrel.  Now get to work!!!
  

for freaking goodness sake, me, an 'great' fm, a player with a much more 'legendary' status than you, isn't even ranked among the top 7,900 in the world. So, what does that make you? The 'great' ranking of 60,000? Possibly even worse? Please refrain from telling yourself as a great player, at least before you become a GM. And that would only  make yourself in the top 1000, or not even that.