Playing for 24 Hours

I'll try to watch some

I think he finished

https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/arena/-24-hour-30-blitz-78833

Ended up winning 200 games exactly. My win percentage was 82.7% which was basically the same as others who have won.

Highest rated player I beat and lowest rated player I lost against.

Thanks to the people who watched and cheered me on

And you thought those guys getting 500 were cheating!

Completing 300 games of 3|0 in 24 hours is still amazing to me. That guy took basically no breaks.

If I'd finished I would have had around 265. Sure I took some breaks, for example I walked my dog who was freaking out during the last 12 hours because to him I was sitting like a zombie all day and now I'm not going to bed, and every now and then I shout at the screen lol.

But to take no breaks would be physically and mentally very hard... at least for me.

As it was, after the 12th hour my brain would sometimes just refuse to see threats. Like they'd move to threaten my queen, and I'd consciously look for a threat, but I'd see nothing and then next turn I'd lose my queen

Interesting. Nice job by the way!

Noice

Started at 2000. Went up to maybe 2050 during the first few hours. At around hour 12 it felt like my brain went on vacation. It never came back.

Luckily most players in these things are in the 1300-1600 range. When I quit I'd lost 23 rating points, down to 1977.

Or maybe not "luckily" because beating 100 players rated 1300 gains zero rating points, but losing once loses something like 20

And in the last half, even though I was beating 1300 players, each game felt like a struggle.

No, I'd played a few hundred blitz games. Isn't that cool

I've landed on exactly 2000 2 or 3 times now. I always stop if I can get it to 2000 exactly.

I'd like to think my real strength is closer to 2100 blitz. Maybe one of these days I'll risk my ego and see how high I can go.

Teach me how to get good

Play in OTB tournaments as often as possible. Look at 1-2 GM games per day, 5-10 minutes a game. Solve a lot of tactic puzzles. Buy some classic books (like Pachmans Modern Chess Strategy) and go over every line of analysis on a real board.

Since progress is measured in years, not weeks or months, it's important to have fun. If you're passionate about chess and learn a little every day, the cumulative effect over the course of many years is enormous, but it takes years, so try to enjoy it

During the 22.5 hours, I played a guy who I highly suspected of cheating due to the pace of his moves. Also due to the pace, I won on time. I reported him and kept playing.

Found out today that he's banned. Low effort cheaters are annoying.

https://www.chess.com/member/ginger-gm

nice

yes, because of me

@ginger-gm has bullet rating 1100 (1 win and 3 lost) whereas blitz rating is 1838 with 39 win and 16 defeats. A person who can't handle position for 60 secs how can he get such high blitz rating playing just few games! This is questionable.  Checked one game against @pkdg. Quiet funny.  @pkdg is an experienced player and @ginger-gm made him derailed. But @ginger-gm left a clue. His time was over whereas @pkdg had almost 45 seconds. A beautiful planner can't lag behind opponent in time. Moves of @pkdg were very very fast whereas @ginger-gm was very very slow from the begining. These are enough for Chess.Com authority to catch the cheater. 

However seeing the final decision BY Chess.Com, I just say "ALL IS WELL".

Actually, I hadn't thought of that lol. That's true.

But after I lost rating points to you, I'd go get 2000 again with my newly lowered RD. So it's kinda the same.