Based on your rating and ability it seems you are actually not "aussie" but soviet. Congratulations.
Why I love playing 1 mins bullet
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Feb 17, 2018
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Terrific rating! How long did you take to get so strong? I always feel the danger of "get addicted" to this time control when I play several hours in a row. I even decided to stop playing bullet and blitz for a while because this.
Do you think there are times where you feel you don't have control anymore and cannot stop playing?
Do you think there are times where you feel you don't have control anymore and cannot stop playing?
Feb 17, 2018
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Something else: do you agree with yourself how long will you play or a certain number of games before starting?
I know people who are 400 points below me in Daily but are 300 points hire rated than me in bullets.
Beside obviously playing a lot: do you know how to get better in bullet? Did you learn alone or did you get tips from other players?
I remember that a strong player told me that fake attacks are an important aspect of the game. And also to attack something and move the piece back after the opponent defend (instead of exchanging). And pre move a lot (I hope this is the right expression). I only understand the concept of pre move when I know that my opponent has to defend from a check, otherwise I feel that I can do a lot of wrong things when pre moving when my opponent can react differently.
I know people who are 400 points below me in Daily but are 300 points hire rated than me in bullets.
Beside obviously playing a lot: do you know how to get better in bullet? Did you learn alone or did you get tips from other players?
I remember that a strong player told me that fake attacks are an important aspect of the game. And also to attack something and move the piece back after the opponent defend (instead of exchanging). And pre move a lot (I hope this is the right expression). I only understand the concept of pre move when I know that my opponent has to defend from a check, otherwise I feel that I can do a lot of wrong things when pre moving when my opponent can react differently.
There are quite some tricks to save time. If your opponent only has a dark-squared bishop then you can premove every pawn on white squares and then make only premoves with your king on light squares as well. This way you avoid checks from your opponent which would slow you down.
Another trick is the following:
By positioning your king diagonally you protect your king from being checks for at least three moves which gives you time to premove an attack, check etc.
I also premove in situations where none of your pieces are attacked. Most of the time you can't go wrong with that because if none of your pieces are attacked at your turn than your opponent can't "sacrifice a piece" the next turn and win because you premoved the next one.
Yes, there is another tip to avoid knight fork, " A knight fork is possible only when your two pieces and his knight are in the same color. (All three pieces must be in the same color for fork possibility)
@torrubirubi, It was a very long story, I started playing chess since 5 years of age, I have three chess books that I read at age around 8-10 (one opening book, one middle game book named "combination, the heart of chess", and one endgame book).
I never have official OTB rating(due to registration issuse of national chess federation) although I played as professional player in my country (Myanmar ) for several years during University life in 15 years ago( but I had 4 games against Title players during tournments , won 1 game against FM, drew 1 game against FM, lose 2 games aginst IM). So probably 1800-1900 minimum OTB rating at that time.
Since 3rd year Uni, I stopped playing professional chess. I would say professional chess cos I was top 100 player and I got salary from a club to play club represensative games. During those years, I though my rating was boosted from 1300 to 1800.( I won many open tournments in my small town at age of 12-13 , thanks to those mentioned three books, so my rating before intensive training would probably be at least 1300).My intensive chess work might be the period after high school and Uni life for 5 years of reading ECO books, Chess informats , played thousands of games against fritz 6, deep junior 6, chessmaster 7000 etc. During my chess career, the shortest time control was 5 min blitz games. I never thought that I might play 1 min blitz. However, on online games, 1 min blitz is the most popular time control, so i was practically forced to play 1 min blitz. It took me just a couple of month to adapt 1 min blitz. Since 15 years ago when I stopped playing professional chess, I dont think my rating/overall chess skill might be improved (mostly likely plateau or 100 elo may be).
There are some tips that can inflate elo of 2000 into 2200 or deflate elo from 2000 to 1800 due to slow thinking etc. However poor blitz GM like Wesley So will likely smash most FM, IM in 1 min bullet. What I mean is that blitz, bullet is not another world rating, it is just variant of your standard chess skill/knowledge or how you can apply your memorized patterns in a short period of time.
NKchesscoach wrote:
Learn to make paragraphs, who is going to read all that?
I know, reading is such a hard task. So difficult!
Feb 17, 2018
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NKchesscoach wrote:
Learn to make paragraphs, who is going to read all that?
I, for example
Feb 17, 2018
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Whining wrote:
There are quite some tricks to save time. If your opponent only has a dark-squared bishop then you can premove every pawn on white squares and then make only premoves with your king on light squares as well. This way you avoid checks from your opponent which would slow you down.
Another trick is the following:
By positioning your king diagonally you protect your king from being checks for at least three moves which gives you time to premove an attack, check etc.
I also premove in situations where none of your pieces are attacked. Most of the time you can't go wrong with that because if none of your pieces are attacked at your turn than your opponent can't "sacrifice a piece" the next turn and win because you premoved the next one.
This is great! I usually have to invest time to avoid knight's tricks. This diagonal placed king is also good for blitz. (blitz is already too fast for me) .
Feb 17, 2018
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JamesColeman wrote:
A few of the important things when playing bullet. There are many others also:
Blunder as rarely as possible, and at least, don't leave pieces hanging, and always react and pick up free material when the opponent blunders.
Especially early on, always know what your next move will be if your opponent plays a 'neutral' move that doesn't affect the position much. Hover with the move ready and drop it if safe, but be prepared to quickly react if something unexpected happens.
Premove likely recaptures to save time. They're automatically cancelled if the opponent deviates.
Initiative is vital. Slightly dubious aggressive openings become very playable (total garbage like the Englund Gambit, though, doesn't)
Know when to simplify! eg, you have Q and many pawns vs R and a few pawns, it's usually worth swapping Q for R as you can maybe mop up the resulting ending instantly, but always be on guard for 'dirty' moves by the opponent - moves that are ludicrous but would work against the expected move.
Know when to stop playing the position and play the clock.
You have to actually be decent at chess. Being weak and super-quick will only get you so far
Thanks. It is difficult to get better in blitz by mainly playing Daily. Rapid is my "bullet". I can imagine once to train to improve in blitz / bullet, but I have to find out how to avoid getting addicted - for example by analysing my games and by playing not more than 4 games in a row.
Feb 17, 2018
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JamesColeman wrote:
A few of the important things when playing bullet. There are many others also:
Blunder as rarely as possible, and at least, don't leave pieces hanging, and always react and pick up free material when the opponent blunders.
Especially early on, always know what your next move will be if your opponent plays a 'neutral' move that doesn't affect the position much. Hover with the move ready and drop it if safe, but be prepared to quickly react if something unexpected happens.
Premove likely recaptures to save time. They're automatically cancelled if the opponent deviates.
Initiative is vital. Slightly dubious aggressive openings become very playable (total garbage like the Englund Gambit, though, doesn't)
Know when to simplify! eg, you have Q and many pawns vs R and a few pawns, it's usually worth swapping Q for R as you can maybe mop up the resulting ending instantly, but always be on guard for 'dirty' moves by the opponent - moves that are ludicrous but would work against the expected move.
Know when to stop playing the position and play the clock.
You have to actually be decent at chess. Being weak and super-quick will only get you so far
I only check the clock when I am losing, and when I am winning I get flagged.
I am a 2000-2100 rated bullet player and I love playing bullets for multiple reasons.
1. Chance to save time, and chance to see a lot of tactic positions in the game. I usually use 30 secs to search tactics in the game and 30 secs for natural push moves. If I suspect there is a tactic , I spend 3-5 seconds on that move ( occassionally up to 10sec) and if i cant find the tactics, I keep moving regular moves.
2. Chance to flag the opponent on the lost position (of couse they flaged me on countless games that I should have won)
3. Chance to scare the opponents and waste their time by fake attacks.
4. Of course , 1 min blitz is unlikely to improve chess but I have no interest to improve my chess in my current age.I rather would like to play for fun.
Here is a game where I hung my queen and still won. I sensed that there was a mate with R+R+N vs K+B+R so I thought about 3-5 secs in searching the mate but I missed it. However I flagged my opponent and still won.
https://www.chess.com/live#g=2616365843