Online ratings especially Blitz & Bullet give poor guide to actual playing abillities
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Pawnwiser657
1 day ago
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I think if you have only ever played chess online with Blitz or Bullet you can have a false sense of actual playing abillity regards to endgame abilities My uncle a strong 2200 over the board player told me spend your time over the board learn your Endings and Middle games setups before getting addictions on Blitz play!? We had a guy at our chess club he knew no other way to play our over the board league was 1Hr 20min for whole game, when you played him he would play like Blitz and with time against him his opponents knew they could find the weak holes in his play!?
1 day ago
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playing blitz can help you with establishing playing quickly and intuition but i agree to really improve you should take your time on longer rapid games and study endgames
I disagree, my uscf is 1900
With the original post
8 hrs ago
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On the latest posting I can see the reason for not agreeing as he has a 1900 rating OTB and as such will know his Endings and Middle game setups, this is learned during ones over the board play which was the the original reference as if you only have ever played Blitz or Bullet chess and not over the board you cannot expect to have complete knowledge in your Endings as I learned in my early years with my uncle.
We improve our OTB classical with blitz and bullet. I will beat your 2200 uncle easily I am very good in classical chess.
True.