Nice to hear. I'll keep practicing.
For bullet, I don't know how to pre move. So I could pick up some speed there.
This most recent game seems to be my best yet:
Nice to hear. I'll keep practicing.
For bullet, I don't know how to pre move. So I could pick up some speed there.
This most recent game seems to be my best yet:
I need to get better with my fingers on my screen, or do longer controls. I did make some positional blunders by capturing material with pieces that were already on good squares, instead of capturing that material with pieces that needed to be brough into the fight. I had lots of fun, but I don't even have time to look at my clock.
I'm a slow thinker and I started college 3 years early. Often I have to read something 2 or 3 times to understand it because my mind wanders. When I'm timed on chess puzzles, for the first 5 or 10 seconds I'm not even working on the solution, I have to slowly figure out what's happening because it's all scrambled. I think most chess players don't have that problem.
I need to get better with my fingers on my screen, or do longer controls. I did make some positional blunders by capturing material with pieces that were already on good squares, instead of capturing that material with pieces that needed to be brough into the fight. I had lots of fun, but I don't even have time to look at my clock.
I'm no expert, except on my own games. Ratings-wise, I'm close to you (1050 blitz, 1300 rapid) and I've played a bunch of 5-0, 3-2, 10-0 games. I've won a single blitz arena and never come close to winning one any other time.
In my experience, my best results in blitz come when I play a different, simpler game in the shorter time controls than in the longer games. The critical element was to play faster so that the games I would normally lose on time started to be time losses for my opponents.
The way I did that was to find solid, non-losing moves, and play those, rather than trying to play "winning" chess. Because of that, I've at least temporarily dropped blitz and switched to rapid and daily.
It was the same with 5min puzzle rush - the way I scored high was to guess rather than calculate. Because of that, I gave up timed puzzle rush. Just something to think about before you decide to focus on improving at a game that is not your strongest suit.
Concepts like "slow/fast thinking" and "multitasking" is a myth. Electronic pulses that travel through all of our nervous and cognitive systems are exactly the same (speed-wise). There are various factors that cause interference/resistance from person to person but in every case, the capability of signal-speed is (positionally and relationally) the same.
You are not a "slow" thinker. You are a "the same as everybody else" thinker. What you really need is the courage to not compare yourself to other people. Realize that others are no "faster/better" than you are at the exercise of thinking.
Good answer, but one that can only be given without any context of chess...
Saying that everyone is "the same as everybody else" in chess is absurd. It is a very ignorant thing to try to say. If you think genetics don't make people different in a mental aspect, then where have you been?
@Mr-Mudd
It depends on personality as well as the body system. Some people tend to take there time, like me, but some others are flying high and playing 10 second bullet XD
Concepts like "slow/fast thinking" and "multitasking" is a myth. Electronic pulses that travel through all of our nervous and cognitive systems are exactly the same (speed-wise). There are various factors that cause interference/resistance from person to person but in every case, the capability of signal-speed is (positionally and relationally) the same.
You are not a "slow" thinker. You are a "the same as everybody else" thinker. What you really need is the courage to not compare yourself to other people. Realize that others are no "faster/better" than you are at the exercise of thinking.
Good answer, but one that can only be given without any context of chess...
Saying that everyone is "the same as everybody else" in chess is absurd. It is a very ignorant thing to try to say. If you think genetics don't make people different in a mental aspect, then where have you been?
Nice try.
Sure genetics make a difference. I'm specifically referring to this notion that someone is a "slow" thinker. Unless there are abnormal factors (as there are always exceptions to everything) signal speeds that run through our synapses are the same in each person. The shapes & routes may vary but the signal speed is still the same.
Even if electrical pulses are firing just as fast, that does not mean the speed is used effeliciently towards the objective of solving chess. It could be looking at the shape of the pieces, getting micro distractions.
Concepts like "slow/fast thinking" and "multitasking" is a myth. Electronic pulses that travel through all of our nervous and cognitive systems are exactly the same (speed-wise). There are various factors that cause interference/resistance from person to person but in every case, the capability of signal-speed is (positionally and relationally) the same.
You are not a "slow" thinker. You are a "the same as everybody else" thinker. What you really need is the courage to not compare yourself to other people. Realize that others are no "faster/better" than you are at the exercise of thinking.
Good answer, but one that can only be given without any context of chess...
Saying that everyone is "the same as everybody else" in chess is absurd. It is a very ignorant thing to try to say. If you think genetics don't make people different in a mental aspect, then where have you been?
Nice try.
Sure genetics make a difference. I'm specifically referring to this notion that someone is a "slow" thinker. Unless there are abnormal factors (as there are always exceptions to everything) signal speeds that run through our synapses are the same in each person. The shapes & routes may vary but the signal speed is still the same.
"Slow thinking" and "slow thinking in chess" have innate differences and are completely different conversations.
What you are doing is similar to someone talking about "driving" at a "drunk driving" meeting.
Well, the site interface slows my moves down a lot. Half the time it takes 3 seconds just to move a piece. It fights with me when I click on them, not registering a response.
Can you take in the whole board at once?
I don't spend that time calculating. I spend it looking at 3x3 areas of board as I scan my eyes across it. Then I see the scholars mate and know that must be the answer.
That comes with practice. When I do puzzle rush (I usually do survival mode) the first 10-15 puzzles are usually instant. The board pops up and I can quickly tell "this is a back rank mate ... This is a mate-in-1, mate-in-2, mate-in-3 .... This is a hanging piece". The ones that get a little annoying are the endgame puzzles they throw in the sub-1200 stack (as usually there is the direct approach and the "go to sleep" approach and it will only accept the former).
The more you practice the simple patterns, the faster you get at them.