Thoughts and rants anyone?
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tylersloeper wrote:
About 9/10 of the people I play, even if they are rating 1000, if I look at their profile they have scores like, highest 1400-1700, and highest beat 1500-1900.
This site is over saturated with people playing below their lvl. Its starting to make me mad. If I invariably start dropping towards the lower ratings, I find that the players become much harder to play.This is ridiculous.
It is particulalry true in Bullet and Blitz.
If you want to know the power of the player (skill) in bullets, you don't just stare at the ratings, it can be tricky, because of the anomaly that occurs due to the lagging factors that caused by poor connection. Strong players are often lost due to these factors, especially the defeat by time. Massive defeat that suffered by the owner of a poor connection causing their rating dropped drastically, despite the fact that they have skills that are well above their rating.
My suggesstion, you must also check out his highest rating, best win and his average rating's opponents.
My suggesstion, you must also check out his highest rating, best win and his average rating's opponents.
i lose so many games on time that i realized that many players are fast players while i m always pondering and losing on time - i have so many games where i m on even terms or have a very playable game yet lost on time - these guys are pros on speed play i mean speed demons!
piyu1154 wrote:
i lose so many games on time that i realized that many players are fast players while i m always pondering and losing on time - i have so many games where i m on even terms or have a very playable game yet lost on time - these guys are pros on speed play i mean speed demons!
Bullet is more than just racing in move, but it's an instinct to "kill or to be killed" based on the experience (mastery of mating pattern) that honed by practice.
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=731951482
tylersloeper wrote:
About 9/10 of the people I play, even if they are rating 1000, if I look at their profile they have scores like, highest 1400-1700, and highest beat 1500-1900.
This site is over saturated with people playing below their lvl. Its starting to make me mad. If I invariably start dropping towards the lower ratings, I find that the players become much harder to play.This is ridiculous.
It is particulalry true in Bullet and Blitz.
No. They won a few games early, before they had an established rating which gave them a peak well above their usual strength.
Their usual level after 100 or so games is +/- 100 on what their current rating is.
astronomer999 wrote:
No. They won a few games early, before they had an established rating which gave them a peak well above their usual strength.
Their usual level after 100 or so games is +/- 100 on what their current rating is.
Exactly. That's why my online chess still shows a highest rating in the 1500's which I got by winning a few games via opponent timeouts which artificially inflated my rating, then it went back down where it should be. Even though I'm at a 1400 level, it still shows my highest rating in the 1500's. And yes, my best win was against a 1500+ rated player but that was a fluke as I've lost many other games against him.
I wish it didn't show your highest rating until you've played about 10 games or so to establish a good baseline rating. Because I feel my true highest rating was around 1450 or so.
astronomer999 wrote:
No. They won a few games early, before they had an established rating which gave them a peak well above their usual strength.
Their usual level after 100 or so games is +/- 100 on what their current rating is.
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=732417260
I'm not sure if thats true saluang. If I as a 1200 am playing another "1200" who has a highest beat of 1600, and a highest rating of 1650, I feel like the match as been thrown already.
play 30 minute standard to get and correspondace turn based- bullet blitz will not really help you learn and get better at normal chess.
piyu1154 wrote:
i lose so many games on time that i realized that many players are fast players while i m always pondering and losing on time - i have so many games where i m on even terms or have a very playable game yet lost on time - these guys are pros on speed play i mean speed demons!
This sums up my opinion of bullet chess all too well:
Thinking while playing chess? nonsense! Just move super fast!
Just play standard chess. You won't even be able to play fast food chess without a good database of patterns, which you can only pick up by playing serious games (or seriously studying tactics).
My thought on this subject is that quick chess, especially bullet, is a good fun game if you dont take it too serious. It is a tremendous help in practicing your opening portfolio, so that when you play normal time control games you dont spend 30-40 min on the first 10-15 moves. Rating in bullet chess does not mean much (e.g I am ~1600-1700 in standard time and only~1300 in bullet), I often beat players rated in 1400-1500 in bullet and they get upset, even accuse me of cheating! (really? cheating in bullet is simply impossible, you have no time for cheats) because they see that I am a lower rated player, but they dont know my standard game strength. And naturally the non-game factors weigh in much heavier in bullets: lag, poor connection, even short outside world distractions. So cheer up and have fun!
Mar 3, 2014
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Yeah I've lost over a thousand games on time where I had a winning position, but it's just part of the game.
Don't play short games if you care about ratings or if you're not going to invest time in learning the patterns and tricks. I frequently loose on time and I don't care. If the game is intriguing I'll stop and look at the situation and not worry about the clock. The game is fun, screw the clock, who cares who wins? Especially in internet chess.
About 9/10 of the people I play, even if they are rating 1000, if I look at their profile they have scores like, highest 1400-1700, and highest beat 1500-1900.
This site is over saturated with people playing below their lvl. Its starting to make me mad. If I invariably start dropping towards the lower ratings, I find that the players become much harder to play.This is ridiculous.
It is particulalry true in Bullet and Blitz.