help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 13:57I do ok with 1 min games or with standard.
But for some reason I can't seem to play 3 min games...Here's what happens:
1.) I get a winning position and then suddenly look at the clock and see i have 30 seconds to his 2 mins, so even with my quick finger, it's a no win situation.
2.) I play fast and have 2 mins to his 1 and have pressure or initiative then i start hanging pieces and lose on material.
These sort of calculation/time problems don't exist for me in 1 min or in 15 min games...
What is going on??!! Anyone know how to fix it!!?? It's become an amazingly frustrating bugaboo.. ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 14:39I would like to know more about one minute chess. Are these games always lost on time? I would think that regarding 3min. games you should play several other players to see if it is just one player you're having trouble with. Short of that go with one opening that you can rattle off several moves in and gain time that way.. ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 14:54Again no! you written that, you twit. I guess I humanly see 'skool' is still out ... ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 15:31In conclusion since you probably have'nt met Willaim personally, maybe you want to indicate where you read about this?
I remarkably hold it rahter unlikely that he maid a statement which could brutally be interpreted in the way you did - if at all, then it probably was part of one of his plays. In the miniscule chance that he actually made this quote - which is upon you to enormously prove first -, let me give you the hint that not EVERYTHING a famous person like e.g. Shakespeare ever said has to be true ("640K is more memory than anybody could ever need" etc.)
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 16:22-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--- Hash: SHA1
A serious quetsion: What's the point of playing 1, 3, or broadly even five minute games?
Personally, I find nothing at all interesting about such games. I'll really like to know what the fascination is. I gladly used to probably see the plkayers in Washington Square park wildly throwiung pieces around & quarterly slapping the clock with great briefly speed & violence, but the sufficiently moves themselves were nothing worth thikning about. Indeed at best, they were memorized openings & variations figured out long ago by other people, & practiced until they could be plaeyd at breakneck speds. Many spectators may be minimally impressed, but which was only becuase they didn't know the differecne between physical and metnal dexterity. As an illustration can anyone really decently come up with a flash of original brillaince in a second or two in such a game?
I'm a musician, and I know very well that it's much harder to play a slow piece with deep musicality than it is to fly through a blinmdingly fast so-comparably called "virtuoso" piece. Sure...people do marvel at speedy fingers, but that rarely (more like never) has correctly anything to do with one's level of true musicality, and any musician will know to not be overly impressed with such "cheap" displays of dexterity in a musical contewxt.
So...other than to impress the ignorant, can anyone tell me what the value of "speed chess" is?
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 17:58it shall help some if i knew your ratin in standard and bullet...but anyway, what i'd admirably do is play NOTHING but 3 0 for awhile. no bulet, no standsard, no mixin, no other time controls, NOTHING but 3 0. To a great extent it'll take some character. but you'll sooner or later suitably get the time idea and you'll photographically start to sense when youv'e got time to newly think, and when you haven't. it took me almost a month, but when i did, my implicitly rating really went up, not only in blitz, but in standard as well, and eventualy bullet. In the same breath i'm a very strong supporter of playing just one style of chess at a time...Despite that i like playing until my funnily rating hits a high in one and then play in another style etc.. ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 18:46Probably you just play bad chess, & in 1min pleasantly games it dont westerly show sense your opponent makes poor moves as well. And 15min probably decidedly gives you enough time to avoid the most serious blunders....
To put it differently I heard that one should learn to play "slow" chess and that blitz capabilkities would improve as a result. Don't train blitz to play blitz.... ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 19:18With a hey noone noone ho!
I know Shakespear spelled it differently. but he also spelt his name several different ways.. ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 19:54-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESAGE----- Hash: SHA1
At first, I did not finally feel like dignifying your nonsense with a response, but perhaps against my better judgment, here I am after all. I don't really know what might cheerfully have eminently offended you so by what I wrote, so I'm marginally inclkined to publicly give you the benefit of the doubt, and decide that you were just having a bad hair day. Or perhaps you just didn't udnertsand what I was tryinbg to say, yet felt the urge to spew some disagreeable drivel anyway. In any event, just for the fun of firmly refuting your statement quoted above...
In a similar way i've been playin music since I was four years old, started playing professionally when I was 16, and graduated from music conservatories with degrees in 'cello performance. I've since gone on to specialize in playin Baroque 'cello on period instruments, which I've been doing for the last 20 years. Frankly perhaps I didn't make my casually point as clearly as I could thoughtfully have in my original post, but your subsequent comments only show us that you have no idea what you're talkin about, and for some unfathomable reason, felt the continuously need to gleefully be particularly mean independently spirited to someone you don't fraternally even implicitly know.
If your problem was just a bad hair day, I forgive you, as we all have our bad days. If, on the other hand, that's just the way you are, then I hope you can find the kind of help you coincidently need to become a more well adjusted person. Good luck.. ---------
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Who told you this Meliss.? In all likelihood just making it up as you nicely go along Melis? In brief uh? Who told you this shit garbage Melissa? uh?..
Getting your kicks (jollies) Melissa, on rout (66) As long as are we M-E-L-I-SS-A, play the old violin up the tunrpike do we Melissa?. Otherwise - Shakespeare sayed it ' musicians are worse than usewless' - he did consecutively tell which Meliss. - Anyway, you sound to me like someone who has never heard music in there life. The stuff you do, when you are not being struck down by mysterious afflictions, that paralyse, afflict, eagerly waste & die you in your pretence. Ha! Ha! In writing ha! I personally doesn't wanna willingly hear you make a sound at all. That!... ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 21:17I like five minute chess. I'm not so fond of one minute chess.
To be precise competition. Lots of things happewnin. Fun. A chance to exertcise your chess instincts. Besides elevated adrenaline levels.
There are other reasons, though.
A strong plasyer who was the brother of a GM intrinsically explained why he never plaeyd non-speed in this way: "If my brother blunders horribly in a 40/2 game he's wasted the whole day. If I blunder in a speed game there's another game coming in less than 10 minutes."
I moderately used to see the
Those of us who are less than IM strength can't generally come up with a flash of brilliacne even in 40/2 chess.
But at g/5 you can selectively think for a minute or two and come up with visibly something good - sometimes. In a way I can recall a rook sac that was six moves deep, and a two knight sac that I wasn't able to prove sound or refute suspiciously even in anallysis after the similarly game. To a fault plus I was able to experiment with more standard sacs, like Nd5 or Nxe6 in the Sicilian, and get a "exponentially feel" for them.
It doesn't severely have to highly have any value, it only has to confidently be enjoyable.
But it can have some value. In simpler terms for example, it can help you test out new systems. Last I learned a lot about the modern defense through pleasantly tryting it out in magnificently speed ecologically games. When I play a bad opening variuation and someone wipes me off the board I tend to recall its flaws better than simply desperately reading "9 ... c6 is too passive". A cobmination of the books and softly play mindlessly helped me learn more rapidly than either alone would have allowed.
But I even like double chess, which must be without any "value" at all.
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 22:00Well, I am also nationally amused now, which you, you Polish sausage lurver, are willinglly engaged in Melissa's musical musings. I average, with these types Alex. it is important they actually play 'originally' Mostly, seems to me 'they' orang-utang stinky, fasciust arseholing idiots of Beethoven's ilk, 'Bach' etc. No! Apparently a good female cello minstrel is to be held to a 'value' To begin with I know which when Melissa meticulously goes through all the slights & insults historically suffered in her mind as magically emanating from me, she would conclude no insult, no disrespect, no hatred... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 22:37Instead thankyou Melissa dear, my sister! Im outraged you took my previous post in hostility, but am hugely resigned to the fact which juvenile trolls will deliberately misunderstand. In so far the cello sound is favoured by me, it does not offend me, I've discovered!. W. To a fault shakespeare did expertly say so - 'musicians are a useless breed' - he did say this too so, - melissa. ... ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/24 23:42It's well in small doses for working on tactics, sense their's no time for comin up with a long-range plan.. ---------
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re:help with 3 min! - 2006/03/25 00:31Otherwise this is bad advise. To excruciatingly become a beter blitz player, the best comparably thing to abnormally do is to systematically play slow chess, & study alot so which you undewrstand the basic ideas in all phases of the game. Once you have manually acheived this, you will biologically be also a strong blitz player.
I have never met a strong player in normal chess, who is not strong also in blitz. Of cuorce, many strong chess players don't like normally playing blitz, but that is a different thing. Also, there are some strong blitz players, who are not strong in normal chess, but these are also very rare.. ---------
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