How to win one minute games
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Jan 16, 2010
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With all due respect, why are you 7 and 22 if you employ this brilliant strategy?
Because I only just tried it out. I won't be doing it much. But it is just an experiment, and it does seem to work most of the time. I don't really like 1 minute games, but I clicked on one by accident, and this tactic occurred to me. It is not very much in the spirit of the game, I know. But if you can steal ten seconds on your opponent before they twig on to what you are doing, it gives you an advantage. Haven't really beaten anyone with a really high rating at this, so I suspect it might not work with someone who is really savvy at quick games.
Beast719 already came up with it: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-invented-a-new-chess-opening---can-i-name-it-after-myself <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520092929 1073786111 9 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-CA; mso-bidi-language:EN-US;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->
YOWZA! Sorry about that!
Hmm? Yes. What was all that, A Spieboy?
This is just something I tried tonight and it did seem to mostly work. Maybe I can test it out against you fredhale, but of course now you know what I am planning to do...
If you can't win against someone doing something like this in 1min you should give up 1min chess.
Jan 16, 2010
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#8
it won't work against a really strong bullet player. they are very powerful, and actually play quality games in 1 minute. :)
Jan 16, 2010
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#9
Terrible advice. You're far better off just doing a double fianchetto, d6, e6, Ne7 Nd7 and O-O. You'll be up on time with a worse but not absolutely terrible position.
I've seen crap like that -- esp. hedgehog setups kind of like bondiggity said. By the time I realize what's going on I've only lost 2 seconds off my clock and play to open a line immediately to confuse my obviously novice opponent 
Yes. It seems the majority opinion is that this rather spurious tactic only works against niaive novice players, and is akin to footballers "time-wasting" at the end of a game (soccer for you Americans). It is a rather cynical ploy, and no-one has any sympathy for you if you get your come-upance as a result of employing it ( as I did earlier when testing it out, and got unwittingly checkmated by a lone pawn!)
Oh, well. I never claimed to be Kasparov or anything. It was just an idea.
Winning a one minute game is the same as one hour. Checkmate.
Jan 16, 2010
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#14
Random moves faster is a common strategy, but good moves fast wins more often. Too many checkmates in 30-40 moves (a number easy to hammer out in one minute).
No it isn't.
How many 1 minute games end in checkmate?
Virtually none.
That's why I don't play them.
Jan 17, 2010
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#16
mickydredd wrote:
No it isn't.
How many 1 minute games end in checkmate?
Virtually none.
That's why I don't play them.
A significant percentage on one minute games end in checkmate. I don't save such fast games in my database, so I do not have mounds of data, but yesterday is probably typical except for the absence of 25-40 move mates. Checkmates comprise more than one quarter of the one minute games I played yesterday (fifteen total). The third one was a little tense, hammering out 57 moves in sixty seconds, although I've managed many more a few times.
Jan 17, 2010
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fredhale wrote:
Don't you play as black Ziryab?
Half of the time. Just didn't manage to checkmate White in a one minute game yesterday.
Just on another matter entirely.
Do you, like me, find that you are reluctant to get into the current craze for gourmet cookery, simply because of the prospect of all the washing up?
and that's why they invented husbands, to wash up for us