I'm winning most of my games on time, and I think it's fair.
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Jan 17, 2012
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Trysts, you have quite a talent there, have you ever thought of being discovered, and being on the tonight show, your show! lololo
To the orginal poster, you will never be suspected of cheating, that type of chess play is from the heart! Good Going!!
Jan 17, 2012
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GhostNight wrote:
Trysts, you have quite a talent there, have you ever thought of being discovered, and being on the tonight show, your show! lololo
It's not difficult to do what I do, GhostNight. Just read Orwell, get drunk, and start babbling on a chess site!
Chesserroo2 wrote:
Sometimes I have the material advantage but I'm defending against an attack my opponent sacrificed for, and sometimes my opponent has the material advantage but does not know how to use it fast enough. In either case, I won my last 4 games by good defense skills. My opponent spent lots of time thinking about how to attack me, and I slowed their attack down well with my fast moves, until my opponent lost on time.
That is how I'm maintaining my 1500 rating against 1350 players. I do beat them the old fashioned way sometimes, and I do get checkmated by surprise out of the blue sometimes. There were several moves I considered were I realized I'd lose a piece in 3 moves due to some pins that would result, so I avoided them.
As youre finding out, all of these "mini Tals" that think chess is all about tactics, are themselves finding out good defensive/positional chess wins. Youre going to find out that slow positional play frustrates the attackers, and you just have to wait for that one mistake.
I get players that will sac a bishop or knight at f2/f7, but have no followup attack, and then dont understand why there "attack" didnt work???
Good Job!
good job on beating people you out rank by 150 points and talking about it
calculus87 wrote:
good job on beating people you out rank by 150 points and talking about it
Good meta-talk!
Well my rating fell to about 1480. I played against someone my own rating, and lost 2/3 games, and also had to leave in a hurry and thus resigned the forth game in middle game.
How did my opponent beat me? Tactics. A series of trades that somehow ended up with me a piece or a pawn down. I then had to practice defending the position against a strong player. I lasted a while, but lost.
I actually prefer the stronger players since I get to study how they pulled the tactics off.
i believe blitz and bullet are a wonder for talentless, no good, hopeless, chess players. lets see how long i can avoid being checkmated. woohoo i won on time!
Add a 5 second or 10 second bonus to you blitz game time, such as Game in 5/5 or 8/10, and you'll likely get some "endgame practice."
Bonus time will also reduce (somewhat) the impact from time pressure inducing "crappy moves" by you and your opponents. What's the point of winning that way? You learn basically nothing, and the chess is "sloppy."
P.S., You should start playing folks rated above you. Set you rating minimum at -100 floor and +300 ceiling, on your challenges.
Otherwise you'll get lots of challenges accepted from folks 200-300 points below you. And more "sloppy" chess.
Sometimes I have the material advantage but I'm defending against an attack my opponent sacrificed for, and sometimes my opponent has the material advantage but does not know how to use it fast enough. In either case, I won my last 4 games by good defense skills. My opponent spent lots of time thinking about how to attack me, and I slowed their attack down well with my fast moves, until my opponent lost on time.
That is how I'm maintaining my 1500 rating against 1350 players. I do beat them the old fashioned way sometimes, and I do get checkmated by surprise out of the blue sometimes. There were several moves I considered were I realized I'd lose a piece in 3 moves due to some pins that would result, so I avoided them.