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Thought For The Day - Playing the Position vs Playing the Board
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tigerprowl wrote:
I think they are playing the clock. If you see a threat in a longer game, then you have to deal with it. If you see a threat in a fast game, it easier to cancel it out by retreating. I think it makes perfectly good sense for lower rated players to do this. If a cat comes attacking a mouse, what is the mouse going to do? The lower rated a player is the more they should play longer games and think out the moves. Leave fast play until you become a Nakamura.
In my experience, blitz favors the attacker. I decided to play it almost exclusively for a while to help ouot my opening knowledge and speed up my decisions... I used to think 30-0 chess was far too fast, not I am comfortable with 5 and make far fewer mistakes.
blitz is useless
richb8888 wrote:
blitz is useless
Untrue. Blitz, Standard, and Turn Based all have their place. I've improved my openings a lot by getting in a lot of blitz games.
I agree Eric. . 'Play the board' is really what one needs to do and thats what IM Silman says too. But psychology plays a very important role, i mean the emotion,the ego, the greed. .know what, its very hard to resist all this as a begineer and i am victim of it too but still i am trying to work on it. I really suck in shorter time format games and ends up disastrous in blitz and rapid games.
So, a few weeks ago, I made a leap in my blitz game going from the 1390's to a pretty steady 1550. One thing I have noticed is that players rated 1200-1400 seem to take my threats much more seriously, even when subsequent analysis show that the attacks may have been flawed.
In one game, I got my 1300's opponent to retreat a lot of his pieces from the middle of the board... it was quite comical. And many times I have seen my opponent act much more passive. While I don't have a lot of data points to prove my case, it sure seems like folks get intimidated by the rating instead of simply playing the board. Frankly, I find it funny... I know how bad I am :)
Whether you are playing Carlsen or a patzer like me, simply play the board. Look at it as an opportunity to learn and play the best you possibly can. If you play the wrong move, you can learn from it, but if you play a move because you are intimidated by the player, you will learn nothing.