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Handling the Tilt Mode
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May 1, 2016
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I feel a lot better now. Crushed that guy with albin counter gambit.. A game before he said learn the Grand prix attack. Haha. He felt right at the trap and i won his queen in 7 moves or so. Big smile on my face. Man what a child i am. But Thats the cure. Play until you start winning, only then stop.
May 1, 2016
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#4
I always play 2.Nf3 to avoid the albin. I don't know why more people don't do this in blitz. I've even had a couple people premove e5 expecting 2.c4, free pawn for me! Lol.
AIM-AceMove wrote:
I feel a lot better now. Crushed that guy with albin counter gambit.. A game before he said learn the Grand prix attack. Haha. He felt right at the trap and i won his queen in 7 moves or so. Big smile on my face. Man what a child i am. But Thats the cure. Play until you start winning, only then stop.
I know many of us are ultra agressive, bullet patzers and often we play 1 min or 3 min games for hours without stoping, becouse we are in tilt mode. It happened to me.
The feeling we experience ,when we are losing game after game in a winning position against simular or low rated patzer is just extraordinary. I really can't imagine any other game that can create so much pain in your mind/head. I heard once GM Hikaru said.. (not exacly that but very simular) : When i lose in blitz, it's okay , but i can't handle losing in bullet.
We often want to brake something.. there is even a topic here a guy crushed his laptop... They say when you are in losing streak, stop , take a rest.. But this is hard. To stop the pain (playing).. you have to inject more pain (stoping playing) so you head to clear after hour or so. I don't like this.
The way i handle it it's simple. I hit something. Then i go crush someone low rated in 1 min bullet. Then i go back and play more against same player/pool of players. And i win a great game with sacs etc. Crushing. That's the medicine. There is no other way, unlest you want to admit you are patzer to yourself and hug the pain. I imagine is way hard for low rated players (800-1500) I think the higher you are , the better, becouse often you can go and calm yourself you are way better than all those others or simply create a "masterpiece" next game.
But one thing is for sure. I have to stop bullet. I played enough and i reached high enough level. I know i don't have many games overall (probably around 5 000) and there are many many players with 20-50k games... i had enough fun with bullet, i dont enjoy it so much. But it's addictive. And time wasting. Perhaps dozen of games per week no more. Should abondon bullet and blitz and spend the time more productive...