I do not watch 960 Fischer. However, I started to play couple daily chess in it. The aim is to make rating more than 1000.
Do You Watch Freestyle Chess?
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If I watch (or play) 960 i'm worried my normal chess will get even worse than it already is. I went on a tilt recently that lost 290 rating points, and i'm only just recovering my form again. I kinda feel like i'm hallucinating when I look at the piece placement in 960, or like a 2-year old kid set up the board! 😂
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You play rapid games. Establish your limit. Let’s say 3 games during working day, 5 games for weekend. It’s mechanical but good approach to stop playing while being in worst possible shape. Your next opponent will not resign himself since your previous opponent defeated you!
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Leto wrote:
You play rapid games. Establish your limit. Let’s say 3 games during working day, 5 games for weekend. It’s mechanical but good approach to stop playing while being in worst possible shape. Your next opponent will not resign himself since your previous opponent defeated you!
That's brilliant advice and i've started to do something very similar and it's helping. I had never played online chess before April this year, but had played 1000s of OTB games over the years and bots, engines etc. I always assumed online was full of cheaters and avoided it. But after watching a lot of Robert Drury (Hippo player) playing here on Youtube I joined Chesscom. At first my rating was going up pretty well when I played just a few games per day. But then I was given the advice to ignore my rating and play 100s of games to get used to online chess. That's when my rating completely vanished! 😂
So it's actually very astute of you to advise playing less and limiting games, because it was that exact issue I had. I decided I would play until I had a plus score each day, or to a maximum of 5 games. I've been doing that for five days and my confidence is shooting up again, and so is my rating (finally 🤪)
Freestyle, Chess960, Fischer Random, whatever you want to call it, I just can't bring myself to watch it. Maybe it's because i'm a Hippo player, which tends to be focussed on simplifying the opening. I'm also 50 years old and probably set in my ways. I get the 'traditional' chess set up being undermined by long lines of theory at the top level, but shorter time controls seem to counter those lines a fair bit, since a player can't just sit and search their memory banks for 45 minutes. Am I alone in this, or are there others on Chesscom who feel like it's watching 'Alien Chess'.
I feel like an old fuddy-duddy for posting this! 😂