aaah... regarding the sounds:
the sounds of the moves are not actually that bad. Just the opening sound is weird, i thought that will be the sound of every move and was afraid of it.
@Dr_King_Schultz: yeah, you may be right, that it is for more experienced players, so then it's not about quick decisions, but about pattern recognition. That would explain why I suck at it much more than I ... well, I do not suck that hard on standard game, but I am no pro either
the sounds of the moves are not actually that bad. Just the opening sound is weird, i thought that will be the sound of every move and was afraid of it.
@Dr_King_Schultz: yeah, you may be right, that it is for more experienced players, so then it's not about quick decisions, but about pattern recognition. That would explain why I suck at it much more than I ... well, I do not suck that hard on standard game, but I am no pro either
@phlegm 11: Well, I am not a beginner, but I haven't been playing for 12-15 years, so my brain database of positions is quite limited :)
if you want to improve at chess i suggest 10 mins plus games or correspondance games.
if you want a high rating without ability, play endless blitz and bullet chess and join the other chimpanzees with 2600 ratings at blitz. but you dont get good at chess by just playing fast time controls.
if you want a high rating without ability, play endless blitz and bullet chess and join the other chimpanzees with 2600 ratings at blitz. but you dont get good at chess by just playing fast time controls.
speed chess gives u confidence in a variety of positions for a short spam of time or it allows u to see the weak spots,
if u need to think a lot in a position, that means its a new position
for u, so I think blitz is better to test what u know rather than to improve, thats why I think for learning purposes it should only
be used by experienced players
I raised my blitz rating in about two days, two hundred points
almost, although I think I had it bad, underperform still
I think although it requires more work, its better to improve
the blitz by learning "classical" chess and not the way around.
for example, yesterday playing a tournament besides having fun,
for my level, I noticed that my open sicilian or facing the sicilian
as white, since I used to play the alapin, its probably my weakest point right now in the opening,
I dont know other openings but I even know less the sicilian
and if I wanted to improve then I would have to play long games
to explore sicilian lines
also in blitz u can test ur endgame skills although they
are usually quite umbalanced and with material advantage for
either side, but still I think blitz is good because it gives
u a lot of positions and practise time management,
so I think it should be included in a training regime like an hour
a day perhaps, the hourly tourney.
I made for myself yesterday some draft about training which
I think im gonna practise soon, very easy going, made by five parts if I remember correctly and one of them is blitz,
the other one is tactics, endgames, a classical game with annotations and analysis and watch some youtube or chess online streaming (the last part option is to skim some gm game)
if u want more details maybe I elaborate it in the following weeks,
very easy going because otherwise I dont do it.
Free, using free online resources, which there are a lot already
but trying to make some sense, or give some order to the chess work out.
if u need to think a lot in a position, that means its a new position
for u, so I think blitz is better to test what u know rather than to improve, thats why I think for learning purposes it should only
be used by experienced players
I raised my blitz rating in about two days, two hundred points
almost, although I think I had it bad, underperform still
I think although it requires more work, its better to improve
the blitz by learning "classical" chess and not the way around.
for example, yesterday playing a tournament besides having fun,
for my level, I noticed that my open sicilian or facing the sicilian
as white, since I used to play the alapin, its probably my weakest point right now in the opening,
I dont know other openings but I even know less the sicilian
and if I wanted to improve then I would have to play long games
to explore sicilian lines
also in blitz u can test ur endgame skills although they
are usually quite umbalanced and with material advantage for
either side, but still I think blitz is good because it gives
u a lot of positions and practise time management,
so I think it should be included in a training regime like an hour
a day perhaps, the hourly tourney.
I made for myself yesterday some draft about training which
I think im gonna practise soon, very easy going, made by five parts if I remember correctly and one of them is blitz,
the other one is tactics, endgames, a classical game with annotations and analysis and watch some youtube or chess online streaming (the last part option is to skim some gm game)
if u want more details maybe I elaborate it in the following weeks,
very easy going because otherwise I dont do it.
Free, using free online resources, which there are a lot already
but trying to make some sense, or give some order to the chess work out.
When you think that they are your partners, think too long, go to blitz
@phlegm
I did not say he's a beginner. But I think that if you are not experienced enough to quickly come up with a good candidate move in a vast majority of positions, then you should probably not play blitz.
Besides, actively trying to improve your blitz skills is (imo) not a good idea. Try to improve in rapid (or - even better - "real" classical time controls or correspondence chess) and then watch how your experience gained in those longer time controls will also help you get better in blitz / bullet.
I did not say he's a beginner. But I think that if you are not experienced enough to quickly come up with a good candidate move in a vast majority of positions, then you should probably not play blitz.
Besides, actively trying to improve your blitz skills is (imo) not a good idea. Try to improve in rapid (or - even better - "real" classical time controls or correspondence chess) and then watch how your experience gained in those longer time controls will also help you get better in blitz / bullet.
I mean, chess doesn't have to be played for the strategic value alone. If you value the ability to make trade-offs between accuracy and speed correctly, blitz perfectly encapsulates that idea.
The thing is, they are not both the same game. Whoever thinks like this, is missing the point. The mindset for blitz and longer games are totally different. I suck in both, haha. But blitz is fun, specially when you are with a real board and a chess clock. It is so fun to move the pieces quickly and hit the clock all time time.
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