Hi Mr.Bill,
With all due respect that's what happens to everyone, I mean...I think that's the point, the clock is the great equalizer.
Charles
Blitz...makes no sense!
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I guess I'm with you Bill. There is about a 400 point difference in my rating from turn to blitz. It is flat out more challenging to analyze a position and execute a plan with the evil clock ticking away. Cross1 said it perfectly: it is the ultimate equalizer.
Blitz has many benefits. Most importantly, by playing faster games we see more chess and thus develop our game experience. When people ask me what to do to improve one's game, invariably the first thing I suggest is PLAY GAMES and keep playing games; not too many at once of course.
Cheers
Chris
I have the same.
When I take a quick look at the board and play my first idea (like you do in blitz because you don't have 10' to make each move) I loose 90 % of my games......
When I take my time to analyse, reanalyse, think at all the answers my opponent can make, ...... like you do in vote chess I'm about 60 % win.
When you don't have much time to analyse the board, you need to look one or two (maybe 3 but it's hard) variation and take a quick decision.
In vote chess you can take hours to analyse.
You see much more moves, analyse deeper and have enough time to think at what your opponent can do.
I'm not saying it's not fun, but that I just suc at it....it's a different kind of play!
Funny some who are real good at it suc in regular ...longer games...then some seem to do well in both, and play their openings very well regardless of time constraints...and their usually club players!
The more i play blitz the better i get at correspondence, except i have to remember to slow back down and not make shallow moves. i learned all my best openings playing 5 min games you get alot of expeirence fast. sometimes my brain gets wired for 1 or the other its hard to jump between the time controls. but lots of fun.
Most of the games I play here are turn-based. I like being able to analyze a single for an hour if I want to. Usually I only play Live Chess while waiting for someone to move in a turn-based game. However, I have found that in only a few months, I have become much better in blitz and even lightning games. I think the reason is that in the long games, I have adopted a few crazy gambits (the Evans and e4 c5 b4, to name a few), which promote really sharp, aggressive games. I now have so much experience with these, and have analyzed them so much in the long games, that I can often run over my opponents in a fast game where we don't have much time to analyze. It's an interesting paradigm. Clearly, I think both types are very good for overall improvement, and they help in different aspects of the thought process
I'm hearing the some of same struggles in blitz....that I experience. I like it to review a new opening....and measure potential counter moves... Lightning is beyond crazy....my mouse is lame...and has become tricky to move...it is merely a clock race....yet some players get a mate within it's time frame....still don't get it yet. In short I don't have the skill-set to commit to the time for memorizing multi move sets. It's fun....but it's the carnival-of-chess play!
I play a fair game with the opportunity to review my play, question the opponents, and determine the best play in turn-based play. Love the analysis board! But....when I try blitz play all logic is seemily out the window....and i'm making blunders after #7 moves...it's that damn ticking clock.... it's just crushing my concentration. Anyone else suffer from this????