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The unbelievable turnaround

vinniethepooh
 
 
 
Hey chess.com friends. I have just completed a crazyhouse 1/0 arena. I was 1400 at the start while the top one was 2000+. I just played for fun, of course, I didn't expect a medal.

So, I won the first game, lost the second game. 1 point.

Won the third game, lost the fourth and fifth games. 2 points in total. What a bad player I am!

At that point of time, while I played so badly, the 2000+ guy was swiftly punishing every player out there. I mean, I had 2 points while he had 15. Too big a gap to even think of covering.

But after that, I picked up pace. I won the next four games, and surprisingly I was Black in all of them. 12 points. I was coming closer. And not to forget, and I had already increased close to a 100 points.

And you know what happened after that? I beat players left and right. In short, I won the next four games as well. I played a total of 13. So you know what after 2/5 I did 8/8 which was sufficient for an overall 33 points in 13 games!!

I was watching the 2000+ guy who was first all the while very closely. I had leveled him. Yipee!

Then came the time. I started my 14th game. I was losing very very badly. But as luck had it, the arena time was over, and...

1. vinniethepooh: 33 points, 13 games

Oh!! I won. Miraculous! after being almost a 15 points down from that 2000+ guy at one point. But he also had 33 points in 13 games, so we shared first. Whatever the case, I was overjoyed! I thought of this when I won:

CRAZYHOUSE: A very crazy variant to play in house!

A great turnaround indeed! Please don't think that I am praising myself too much. Just wanted to share this. Would like to know your thoughts!

Avatar of notmtwain

It is perhaps disingenuous to describe yourself as a 1400.

Your blitz rating is 2090.

Avatar of vinniethepooh

Crazyhouse and Blitz are two completely different things. And first of all it was bullet. I am 1677 in bullet. And frankly speaking, I play very bad Crazyhouse, so thats why.

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Just right now I played another Crazyhouse 1/0 arena. Came 4th. Lost pretty badly, the 1st guy was 61 points while I was 23..

Avatar of chachamf

good for you

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anyone posting their OWN turnarounds?

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I played purple.