What blitz rating makes you say 'he is a good chess player'?

Of course not.

It's easier to talk people into drunken chess when they don't have a big ego about chess. It's like a test

Hmm...I don't feel real secure with your denial, Ziryab. Did I do something wrong?

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We used to have a group of players who would meet at a bar on Friday nights and play until @11 or 12PM, when there were too many customers to justify our taking up all of the tables.  We'd play games for drinks and had other "rules" (hang a piece, down a shot--that sort of thing) for playing, and the competition got intense but always civil.  I felt it was a great way to prepare for a tournament, because if you can play quality chess when there is a jukebox playing, guys talking smack about us, girls looking and whispering, smoke all around, dim lights etc., then anything that happens in a tournament you will be able to easily ignore it and concentrate on your game.

Do you put simple syrup in drinks? That would be wrong.

Two or three ice cubes, a pinch of raw sugar, a fresh lime squeezed until it gives no more, and four ounces of bourbon. That's a drink. 

dash: awesome!

Try it sometime; the buzz is fun, too.

Of course I use simple syrup! It's just sugar water. But I love fresh squeezed lime, lemon, orange---yummy. If I'm serving Woodforde Reserve, then yes, it's great to have the fresh

But anyway, what's with the rodent comment? It weasled over my head.

If you can't play chess in a bar, then you're not a "good chess player"

Amen, trysts (no offense intended about the "amen" thing).

Winning at blitz requires rodent control. There's no hidden meanings or metaphors. It was a simple litera statement. My reflexes are better when I am relaxed, which one or two drinks may facilitate.

Naturally, the quality of my play sharply declines with the third and subsequent drinks.

I'v found that in most drink recipes, omitting the sugar completely improves the drink.

Woodford Reserve is so sweet that straight, or with one ice cube is almost the only way I drink it. With Jim Beam, OTOH, I prefer to add things. Most often a few drops of bitters. Frequently, lime juice and a pinch of raw sugar. Sometimes, sweet vermouth and a maraschino cherry.

Straight or with one or two small ice cubes is the only way I drink WT Rare Breed, Russell's Reserve, and Blanton's. 

Ha! You're talking about the mouse! C'mon, you could see I was all confused and you let me writhe in the wind about it

You got me all self-conscious, Ziyrab

On another note, I love raw sugar, but I don't use it with drinks when I'm serving--it just doesn't dissolve so well.

only people with the title next to their name are good players because they will kill somebody in the 1300 to 1400 range. You think you are good at 1348? Then play somebody 2348 & you won't think you are good anymore.

Id say a rating about 1800+

What blitz rating makes you say 'he is a good chess player'?

(Basically any blitz rating higher than my own.)🐾

I also look at how strong their average upon it is.

I think faster than most chess players, and rarely run out of time. But I have a terrible memory. Therefore I rely on good positional play, and playing real chess, for example using openings like Alekhine, in order to force my opponent to also play real chess. As soon as I suspect my opponent has studied the traps, there's no fun any more in playing. I might as well play against a computer (which I never do). As for ratings. Rating, schmating. I went to Holland Park once and lost every single game. Half way through the evening, someone asked me if I was ever a Grandmaster. I thought this was a really odd thing to ask, but I think it was because I think so fast, and I could "feel" the calculus and the positional advantages so instantly. But years of neglect and now I'm an average seat of pants blitz player. I can't play "big chess" for the simple reason that I get bored waiting for my opponent to move.

So "real chess" is knowing some traps that work, but it's boring when you don't have a secret your opponent is not in on? Just trying to wrap my head around this expression of motivation.

Well I would think around 1500+, I'm a new player, so I cleared 1700 without any defeats. Once I see someone 1500+, I think that I need to play carefully

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