i dont understand the stupid 10 minute chess. sometimes i have taken more coins of the opponent but still at the end it declares my opponent as the winner.
dang bro, that sucks. i hate when i take my opponents coins and still lose...
I have the same problem too. I can't help thinking about the time while I need to evaluate this position. People who are better in blitz than standard become very impatient when they play in USCF tournaments, which you can take from 30 min onward, they often lose due to their impatience.
So true. I have only played for one year, and ONLY blitz. That's why I've reached a 1550-1600 rating on it, but I suck at standard. Yes, sure, I draw people with 1700-1900 in long games (1hour), but not as often as I lose to 1400 players...because of pure impatience. Argh.
I struggle when I play my old man on a proper chess board thinking out long term after playing too many 10 min games here.
Saying that I also struggle when playing on here after a bottle of wine and watching the Germany-Ghana game in the background.
Cant win really...
I struggle when I play my old man on a proper chess board thinking out long term after playing too many 10 min games here.
Saying that I also struggle when playing on here after a bottle of wine and watching the Germany-Ghana game in the background.
Cant win really...
But it doesn't matter! That's the best way to enjoy the game, in my opinion...
¡Por favor, sea relevante, útil y agradable!
I've read somewhere that from 10 min to 5 min chess, you can expect to lose about a hundred rating points, and from 5 min to 3 min you can expect to lose another hundred. I've found this to be absolutely true for myself. I think the 5 min pool has a lot more players, and stronger players, than 10 min.
After playing only 10 min chess for years (off and on whenever I played), I felt I wanted to go where the "big boys" play and that's in the 5 minute pool. All good players seem to play 5 minute blitz as their first blitz preference. So the reason I didn't like it was because my rating suffered.
After playing 5 minute and just blundering because psychologically I didn't feel I had enough time to think, and I wasn't use to it so was poor at time management, I decided to go to 3 minute chess to help my speed, and not care about my rating. After only a short time, a very short time (maybe weeks), I felt comfortable in the 5 minute pool with the time, but of coarse my rating was still a hundred points lower than the 10 minute pool.
So the bottom line is, don't worry about rating just about having fun. Play 3 minute for awhile and pretty soon you will learn how to shove out moves that won't leave you too vulnerable to instant tactics and so on. This experience will carry over when you step up the time then to 5 minute. After you play there for awhile (especially after the 3 minute), you will feel fine about the time even if you still blunder. Everyone blunders more in these faster games anyway.
I think as far as official ratings go, like a FIDA rating, from what I've read, your FIDA rating would be a good hundred points better than your 5 minute rating.
Chess.com must create longer chess tournoments
How do you judge the 10 minutes game. By fasted time finishing. OR ???????
I am okay at blitz and am fine at standard because I have two different "mindsets" for chess: blitz and regular.