Women.
I managed to climb to 2000 online, but no woman has responded to my requests yet, huh?
Well, you reached 2000 on chess.com's version of correspondance chess. You didn't exactly reach 2000 online. If your live standard rating was 2000+, only then could you make that claim.
Hit 2000+ on ICC or FICS and then you might turn a head or two.
When youth is gone, Nothing matters anymore. Only those who are rich are handsome in their last days.
Love.
That's one of the stranger posts I've seen in my life...
And as far the guy saying that beautiful women will come so fast you'll have to beat them off, don't count on it...
At 1300 you are still capable of losing to non-chess players aka "normies." At 1500, not so much. Everyone who isn't a real chess player will think you are a chess god. If that's what you want.
This is actually true... I'm 1500 OTB and non-chess-players think I'm some sort of genius; even weaker chess players act like I'm incredible.
At 1300 you are still capable of losing to non-chess players aka "normies." At 1500, not so much. Everyone who isn't a real chess player will think you are a chess god. If that's what you want.
This is actually true... I'm 1500 OTB and non-chess-players think I'm some sort of genius; even weaker chess players act like I'm incredible.
QFT. That's what a lot of the regular players lose sight of as they begin comparing themselves to the 1700-2000 players at their club: A 1500 player will NEVER lose to most people who "play chess". Without regular play and training, you'll never hold a candle to someone who plays 1500 OTB. Tactical combinations that seem just so obvious it's laughable to us when we're at that level are completely unseen to the average "chess player" that they could never, ever win a game against us. They're going to throw away the equivalent of a rook (or far more) every...single...game. At that point, unless we have a major brain fart (and even that wouldn't come close to doing it) there's no way we can wind up losing the game.
It's like the 1500 playing against the 1900. The 1500 is never going to win. He'll lose 300 out of 300 games straight.
thats part of the reason I just dont understand why more GM games are not draws.
When the tactics are obvious, and both players see the 5 move track to the tactics, and both players understand positional chess and tempo gains and loses, I just am amazed wins are ever achieved.
Also as a real answer to OP, at 1500 you can play blindfolded.
"normies" tend to take your opinions as fact when you blow them off the board in a game of blindfold chess you forced them into.
thats part of the reason I just dont understand why more GM games are not draws.
When the tactics are obvious, and both players see the 5 move track to the tactics, and both players understand positional chess and tempo gains and loses, I just am amazed wins are ever achieved.
This is where the creativity, ingenuity, and brilliance of advanced chess players comes into play. We might look for an amazing combination that nets us a piece up in the end. GMs don't ever really get a chance to take that much from each other. Instead, they have to make extremely complicated assessments, both pertaining to material and positon, as to what ultimately gives them an advantage over their opponent from that point on in the game. It's not about winning or losing pieces, it's about getting into superior positions and then converting them into wins.
If you watch GM games, they sacrifice pieces left and right in order to attain such an advantage and only players at that level can see that far ahead. At our level, we're still playing chess for dummies. We're simply limiting our own mistakes and capitalizing on the mistakes our opponents make. To an 1800+, everything we do is Captain Obvious.
Your answer is well thought out and seems correct to me.
As a side note I was had a player critisize all my moves for being obvious when he was down 5-2.
I suppose brillancy's are not possible when your opponent and you still drop pieces/pawns
I suppose brillancy's are not possible when your opponent and you still drop pieces/pawns
Of course. That's the point - At that level of play it's like still learning how to read. When we're dropping pieces left and right, we're not even really playing chess yet. It's literally comparable to tic-tac-toe to a player with a sound tactical comprehension.
I haven't even played a game in months and yet my Chesstempo rating has gone up from 1150 this time last year to now 1570. When I go back and review some of the ~1200 rated problems I got wrong a year ago, I can't even comprehend how I failed them. How can I play chess when I just hand over a bishop and knight now and then? That's not chess. That's learning mode.
Aaaaand ... So many folks have answered a rhetorical question. Whee.
It's not a rhetorical question, is it
Can you answer a rhetorical question with a rhetorical question?
I think the main benefit of increasing your rating to solid 1500 is the confidence to increase it to 1700.
I think the main benefit of increasing your rating to solid 1500 is the confidence to increase it to 1700.
That's part of it, sure. My main desire to increase my rating at this point, though, is so that I can see what is currently unseen to me. It's really a matter of revelation.
Of course, absolutely decimating 99.9% of the casual crowd has it's perks, too.
I've been trying to spread this little charmer around. It is based on an old Ben Franklin saying:
Take care of your game, and your rating will take care of itself.
Rising from 1300 to 1500 will make you a baba voodoo love specialist.
lol
I have to say though, even when I played around 1300, most normies thought I was chess god AKA "genius." But I lost about 1 in 20 games, so I wasn't perceived as invulnerable.
Nowadays, I don't think I would lose any games to normies.
What is normies?
I've never been 1300 in my life. I just started out at 1500 & went from there.
Then are you a titled one ?
May be you have been cheating all the time,?
How can you prove it in real life?
May be you are a liar
May be you are a lunatic one..
A mad one who is only after ratings.
May be you are under age
May be you are over age.
Love..
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That and a pint of vodka will get U drunk. At 1300 it takes 2 pints.