FINALLY HIT 2000 BLITZ!!

There goes colby, talking to himself again 🙄

I notice you're not playing with increment. I don't think those games really count as the whole dynamic changes drastically towards a time thing. If I ever want to artificially push my rating to over 1900 I (extremely rarely) just play a few games without increment and my rating goes up and up.   

I'm not saying your 2000 is without merit, I'm just saying do it with increment to eliminate time tricks. If you can do that you're a good player. I have no idea why tf anyone would play without increment. 

Who do you mean?

Well, if it's that easy, why not increase your rating a bit without an increment then?

3 strikes and you are out. Be careful now.

I don't think colby cheats if that's what you're trying to say.

And to be fair, I think as much as half the time he's a pretty reasonable person.

(and I think most people don't play with increment anyway)

Oh, he was talking to the OP I guess?

Kinda confused me when spaghettio jumped in the middle of that.

3 strikes in what?

I've been on the forums since forever. I've been muted and banned in the past. I know how things work here.

(although I've never been banned for cheating, and I've never been juvenile enough to use stock photos of females on fresh accounts I use to cheat... cough cough)

Or what? You'll cause forum drama for me?

Better start now, you know as well as I do your account has a timer on it.

Ok.

I told you I do it extremely rarely. My highest with increment is 1960, I want to go for 2000 some time - why would I ruin my rating high by getting it without increment? Lately I am messing about and trying new things, but admittedly playing really badly as well for some reason. Like I say I don't understand no increment - what about the endgame? What about when you're up a queen? I think everyone should play increment, it's so much better.   

I don't have the talent to just do it like that, I need to drastically overhaul my game or am unlikely to succeed. I plan on carefully going through old games in books with annotations, maybe with a real board. It will likely be the final overhaul I ever have of my chess. 

I'm just making the point that from my perspective, without increment is not so good.  

It accounts for it in its own pool - do you mean the increment/non-increment players are in the same pool? Yes they are in the same pool so they should be around equally as good at the same rating if they are mixing. It may be true for some people but it's not been my experience. 

I think if you have a rating of no increment you could be overrated or you could be underrated. It's just not clear cut, it's not strong evidence that you're a good player compared to with increment. I can't be talking down anyone with my rating, all I'm saying is increment is a good idea.   

Try increment for a while and you'll never go back, trust me it's the best when you get used to it. 

Forgot to switch accounts? 

Hit 2100!! Next stop 2200!! It's funny I remember this one post on here that claimed you can't improve at chess and that your brain will eventually peak and you kind of plateau. Well now I can confirm that was total bs. I've been studying for a few months and that's how I raised my rating. Its all about studying the areas in which you suck at. 

LOL I remember that post as well... “you cannot improve in chess...”

I took about 8 months off after hitting 2000 except for occasional games on lichess. I was just initially happy to be 2000 that i didn't care about getting better at the time lol. Then Queen's Gambit came out and my thinking changed.

Well done! Congrats!