There isn't much to talk about for this blog, this is probably more of a vent blog if anything. I barely played chess today, even though yesterday I played in an OTB tournament, as for my online gameplay, I have been playing significantly less. ...
I didn't really write a blog for yesterday. Being completely honest, I was very tilted: I only played seven games that day (compared to probably twenty games as usual), and I only managed to win one. Today it wasn't really any different: I was sti...
For the past few days, right after I've reached the legendary 2100 mark, I almost immediately tilted back to 2050-ish. If I had to describe my chess rating during this time in one word, it would just be "fluctuation". Hit me with a three winstreak...
My sleep deprived brain (not necessarily deprived of anything, but it's a funny reference) just invented a new metaphor for my blitz addiction, and I could probably think of seven more if I actually try hard enough. But all of those metaphors: zom...
How did this swing happened, how did this blog turned the complete opposite from the optimistic letters I wrote yesterday, what the hell happened? This blog is probably the complete opposite, the absolute contrast of whatever I articulated yesterd...
I remember (not that vividly) that somebody asked a question in the Improvers Community Lesson: whenever I reach a peak, I seem to tilt (in his own words: lose a ton of games nonstop) right after that, how do I prevent it? And this is a very commo...
I die a little bit inside every time I lose an endgame or go into a tilt. That is completely normal, we all experience some forms of tilt, and we react differently: some rage, some cry, some shrug it off, and some just swallow the pain. But even t...
For a decently long time, I have been trailing: all of my three stats were inconsistent: maybe one or two would be over 2000 and the other would be 1900-ish. It's really rare for me to have all three main time controls at 2000+, but welp, here we ...
Ladies and gentlemen, today I gladly announce my hiatus for blitz. I reached 2100 in blitz! inserts confetti 17 games played, 10 wins, 7 losses, we pushed from 2071 to 2100! Nothing can describe how satisfied I am to finally come back ...
I have two ways of writing this blog, I have the optimistic way, and I have the pessimistic way. I feel like I should acknowledge both, but I feel more pessimistic than optimistic, and there seems to be a reoccuring problem everytime I go on a new...
Title looks dramatic, trust me, it really isn't. On April 5th, I wrote a blog talking my addiction of blitz chess, playing 31 games in a single day and barely getting any results, and at the end, I decided that from now on, I will restrict mysel...
Some days you tilt and lose most of your matches. Some days you get a mediocre day, barely inching more wins than losses, and stay about the same elo as when you started. Or some day you might get a little bit luckier and win most of your games, o...
This is going to be a depressing post. Yesterday, for the first time in probably about six months. I’ve dropped out of 2000 completely. My rapid and blitz are high-1900, but not 2000, and my bullet… who cares about it, but it’...
WOO! Today was a very eventful chess day, there is SO MUCH to talk about! Firstly, just so I can include this section (it probably violates all the rules on how to write a good blog, and I don’t care). I was spectating the FIDE Wo...
You know you really need to stop playing chess when you do something idiotic like this. This was my seventh game of the day. I proceeded to play 24 more blitz games throughout the day. I probably developed a gambling addiction, albeit ga...
NEVER PLAY CHESS AFTER DARK NEVER PLAY CHESS AFTER DARK NEVER PLAY CHESS AFTER DARK What’s important has to be repeated at least three times. Your brain is distracted as hell, sleepier than a sloth, yet you still want to p...
I woke up at 5am. I had a flight to catch, because that day I was going on vacation. This means I can’t make Youtube videos about the FIDE Women’s World Championship, which I hyped so much, but it also does mean I will dismiss two te...
I like to compare a blitz grind with going to the casino (with slightly better odds than normal of course). Two grand on my pockets, and I play coin toss for eight bucks at a time. Sometimes I get lucky and choose the correct sid...
Hello! I engage in the act of playing chess everyday. Sounds fancy innit?Alright let's cut off the slack and the British pimpage. I'm going to try to make a habit of writing a diary about all of my chess games I've played, tracking the results, gi...
