Big Time Chess Crime

There is a young man who lives in Spokane, Maine. When he was 13 his older cousin (by many months) introduced him to 1|0 online chess. He watched his big cousin play and play and was interested. His first game was fast. He had been playing piano for years. He flagged some guy from across the world and jumped up and down. He'd had his first taste and proudly showed his papa. Papa says "I've not seen this abomination of a great game. It doesn't look good, son." So the boy snuck off and spent the next many years playing this version, 1|0 bullet chess. Once and a while he'd play OTB, and did not seem to be improving. He persisted at 1|0 bullet. 15 years into this "fun" game he played a game and after performed his own analysis, only to see he played the last 4 moves of the game, before getting flagged, missing mate in one. The chess Gods and Papa all frowned.

Did you write that? It's pretty good.

Yes and thank you

Wow a literary masterpiece

At the very least. Thank you.

He should play 1sec|0 bullet.

Also, nice story but it doesn't seem to have much to it.

@b1rdboy that is a good idea, Frank please agree

Oh, I don't know bb, this is all so sudden. What shall I write about? My experience is largely limited to chess, although not exclusively.

May we take this offline or at least PM. Will you be in London or South America anytime soon? I am considering Spring and Summer in each respectfully. The weather, you know.

I think I can

I don't know why our negotiations fell off but this guy is also looking for work.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/otf-writer-for-hire

Chapter 2

15 years of speed chess and our little buddy, Frank Jr, did seem to improve. His openings were solid (although limited in number) and if he reached the endgame was often able to secure a win or force a draw in a lost position. He graduated around the age of 30 from 1|0 to 1|1, and as his buddy always says "1|1 is refreshingly slow after many years of 1|0", and it is.

Now, at the tender age of 32 Frank Jr joins a chess club. Chess for Dummies. Where they use the Chess for Dummies book as their Bible. CfD is a fun and active club. Computers and egos are left at the door. They only allow speed chess once a month. Frank Jr is improving and also realizing that with as long as he wants to study each move and position on the board he is quite better and improved relative to his current 1|1 online rating.

I think 1|1 is also hyperbullet.

It's just a fictional story. But if you wanna talk about 1|1 I can say that almost every game I play is complete, as opposed to 1|0 which almost always ends with the clock. This is much better, IMHO.

It is still ridiculous, fast, and often sloppy, but is so much slower than 1|0.

Well, if one plays 15|10 or just 10|0 and thinks for a minute each move of half a minute if it isn't zugzwangy , then they will find it yard when "average move time" becomes the whole clock, plus the amount of time it takes to drag the piece.