Finally to 1200 blitz and now what?

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Raspberry_Yoghurt

I finally got to 1200 by doing tactics and playing a whole bunch of games.

Just wondering if I should just stay with this method for  couple hundred rating points more of if there's something people discovered was good for progressing?

For instance I did computer analysis on a few games. I didnt find it THAT rewarding, but maybe it is?

molo1

keep doing tactics if it helps u

Taulmaril

Now nothing. You're done with chess. Good job.

erik42085

Congrats on 1200. Tactics play a HUGE role in blitz and with a 1300 TT rating i'd say you still have work to do. I see you play 5/0, I highly recommended switching to 5/5. I've won a lot of games that without the increment, I would've lost on time in a totally winning position.

DragonPhoenixSlayer

 I recomend you play as long time control as possible to improve your chess in general this might get you out of blitz shape but will improve your intuition and calculation.You will then need to get your speed back later.Tactics is ok but i have heard you should analyze as many of your games as you can so that you dont make the same mistake again. 

 

But im no expert i wish you the best of luck 

Raspberry_Yoghurt
erik42085 wrote:

Congrats on 1200. Tactics play a HUGE role in blitz and with a 1300 TT rating i'd say you still have work to do. I see you play 5/0, I highly recommended switching to 5/5. I've won a lot of games that without the increment, I would've lost on time in a totally winning position.

I'm kinda winning more games on the time thing that I'm loosing :) If I am in a loosing position I start trying to waste the other guys time, by "digging in", making it complicated or sacrificing some pieces in pointless moves that looks like it's something so he need to spend time if something bad happens if he takes the knight i just moved to a "free" position.

The blitz is more because I get interrupted all the time here at home, so when I play longer games, they almost always gets messed up because of interruptions. Loosing a good number of 5-minute games because of that as well :)

Raspberry_Yoghurt

Thanks but I don't have that much time to use for chess :) Heck it might take me 6 years to get to 2200 :)

I don't get what you get from bullet games though? I tried it, and it looks more like a random scramble.

Raspberry_Yoghurt
erik42085 wrote:

Congrats on 1200. Tactics play a HUGE role in blitz and with a 1300 TT rating i'd say you still have work to do. I see you play 5/0, I highly recommended switching to 5/5. I've won a lot of games that without the increment, I would've lost on time in a totally winning position.

For the tactics, I do tactics on other sites as well. I dont like the puzzles so much on this site to be honest. But I guess I will add some hundred points on tactics on this site then.

DragonPhoenixSlayer
AdamovYuri wrote:

I recommend switching to 3/0 or 1/0. In this way you will avoid cheaters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osrRuz4tvM This is a youtube video of someone cheating in bullet it can be done has been done before

Raspberry_Yoghurt

There seems to be very few cheaters in 5/0, that's why I'm doing that. Probably even fewer in 5/5.

erik42085

Pay no attention to Yuri. He is a buffoon just read his threads. Response to #8, oh so you're one of THOSE guys lol. To each their own I just prefer more decisive games. Clock wins are a part of chess but it makes me feel a little dirty lol. As far as tactics, what's your other sites rating if the one here isn't accurate?

Uhohspaghettio1

Tactics are like the manual labour of chess - push this here, push that there, push this here, push that there... it's the strategy and planning that make the game of chess worth playing. Tactics are too much hard and boring work, I don't like them. I go here, he goes there, I go here, he goes there and who can hold it up the longest... ugh, forget it. I want ideas and plans and creating little theories during the game. 

World champion Alekhine would dive straight into tactics counting on his ability to exhaustively analyze them longer than his opponent, his style wasn't liked very much for it.