Always remember Chess is a game about thinking. Hahaha I sound like a nerd. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that bullet and blitz require really quick thinking. If you're a good chess players who can analyze a position quickly, the blitz is best for you. If you're godly at it, then bullet is even better. Remember, if you make a good move in bullet, you're opponent might get stumped and waste a few seconds.
Blitz Chess Too Fast?
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I was going to start a similar post saying how useless I am at blitz, but you've started something similar!
Anyway, it seems to me that a lot of it is memorizing the best lines/side lines for your opening and running away with it. Additionally, it seems that for sub 1200ers Scholars Mate is the defense of choice, so you can see quite a few people picking up easy wins with that.
Regarding the time issue - being in constant time trouble seems to be the norm, so it's no surprise that it's the #1 source of wins.
All in all, I am rubbish at this form of Chess - I'll keep playing it though, but I have no high hopes of doing well at it!
Yeah, I was wondering what is stopping me from doing bad moves really fast to win on time. But I suppose that would only work on beginners and not chess players that can handle decision making in that amount of time.
Nov 25, 2010
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grantbenjensen wrote:
I have tried playing a couple of blitz games and find there is no actual time to make though-out moves. At first I thought this was because I was inexperienced compared to people (good chess players) that can think quickly enough to make decent moves. However I have checked different people's live chess records and most of the blitz games are won on time and not by a checkmate or resignation. So is the game just to see how fast you can move your pieces, or did I only look at a few bad examples from logs?
roughly two percent of my blitz wins are from time wins. plus, my win percentage is like 50 %. ok, not that good.cmopared to bullet, my time percentage...mabye 20, 25 %? and my bullet win percentage being about 60 %
I have tried playing a couple of blitz games and find there is no actual time to make though-out moves. At first I thought this was because I was inexperienced compared to people (good chess players) that can think quickly enough to make decent moves. However I have checked different people's live chess records and most of the blitz games are won on time and not by a checkmate or resignation. So is the game just to see how fast you can move your pieces, or did I only look at a few bad examples from logs?