The first one was against a 1500, so an easier start I guess:
I have to say I got extremely lucky in this game, and for playing a player who's 350 points lower rated than me I wasn't pleased. But I guess I still got the win: an okay start.
The engine gives me 81.9% accuracy somehow despite my miscalculations.
I'd start with saying that it looks like 15+10 is too fast for you... If you're missing simple tactics like that then either you didn't have enough time or you haven't practiced enough... so play even longer games or do even more puzzles...
I'll use this thread to post my progress anyway. In the next few games, I did much better. Just couldn't find time to post.
I'd start with saying that it looks like 15+10 is too fast for you... If you're missing simple tactics like that then either you didn't have enough time or you haven't practiced enough... so play even longer games or do even more puzzles...
I just miscalculated it wasn't about time pressure. I think I overlooked xc3 if I remember correctly, and I missed the intermezzo with NxB+ with the d3 line which made me play it over xN.
I got into chess about two years ago, not being able to participate in any OTB events due to COVID. To this date, I have still not taken part in one of these tournaments but I realized recently that I got into the habit of playing 3-minute blitz games. In fact, I played 10,222 blitz games on this account which is about 75% of my games.
Which is why I decided to play longer games and analyze them, basically starting to regain good habits. Hopefully, I'm not too late.
I started with 10+0 as an intermediate time control, to move to 15+10, I'll post some of the 15+10 games with annotations hoping for critics/advice from stronger players.