Another hundred broken, and it's going better all the time. Slow but steady improvement, less and less panic, less braindead blunders, less losses by getting flagged in a won position, better endgame, more reasonable openings. And I'm getting more and more sure that reasonable is the magic word here. simple, reasonable moves, avoid crazy complications, don't shy away from exchanges unless it's a really bad one.
But I'm still lousy at staying out of trouble, always drawn to that excellent crazy but very difficult move instead of the practical one. I think I should probably aim for getting into endgame as fast as possible, playing that simple, solid chess. Let the opponent trip with the complications.
ICC 5-minute: 1202, 215 games
CTS: 1643, 82692 tries, 77.6%
RHP: 1840, 223 games, wdl 152-12-65
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we seem to hear less and less from you these days. is this prefered or temporal?
in time, we all eventually become who we are, and although i do not know you, i can sense at a distance that you are either not there, or wish to be there less, and, of course, this means that you are there more for you.
life has that paradox: in order to be there for ourselves, we cannot be there as much for others.
but we exist in others, in a way. and in sharing more of ourselves, we have more for ourselves.
doubtless with training, work, RHP, CTS, endgame training, all of it, there is less and less to go around, but it seemed like when tempo left, a part of you left, too?
I'm here, and I check your blog a couple of times a week at least. been playing blitz at ICC daily. so worry not, I'm not going anywhere. :)
and true, I write this blog primarily for myself, and would write it even if I was offline, so maybe that's what you're picking up? its function is to document me & chess. if anyone else finds it interesting enough to read, hey, great, but that's not what makes me write.
How does the rating on ICC correspond to the rating on FICS? (Your rating on FICS isn't up-to-date, and I don't play on ICC so I don't know what the number means in terms of playing strength).
yea, I've never really established my ratings on FICS, but they're not far from the truth. standard would probably settle into the 1700's or 1800 at best, but blitz will still take some more work to go anywhere...
there's not a big difference between ICC & FICS, blitz and standard ratings are about the same. well, maybe FICS = ICC - 100 pts or so. but the ICC 5-minute rating seems to be about 200 pts smaller than with regular blitz. there's also a separate rating for 1-minute games, but I don't have any idea how that scales. maybe dk knows?
but no matter how you cut it, I reeeally suck at blitz. :) and that's precisely why I'm now working on it.
i dont know FICS. never tried it. at ICC, the ratings are deflated from Yahoo chess, where i warm up.
i can say this, a 1300 rating at icc bullet is like a 1500 blitz. and a 1400 bullet is like a 1600 blitz. it is very, very hard, the guys who do it are pros.
i know many 1300/1400 bullet dudes there who are 1700/1800/even 1900 standard, etc.
i hit 1390, and, darn, couldnt get the 1400. i work VERY hard at it, but weeks on, every day, then take weeks off. i started back yesterday, and beat several 1550, etc. i consider 1400 bullet to be a real threshold for C players.
somehow the 1200 and 1300 a lot alike but still very good. the 1500 and 1600, even when you have an advantage, press and press.
1700 yahoo is like 1600 icc blitz, but cannot rightly say now. my yahoo moves high 15's to mid 16's.
of course there is rating inflation at yahoo! from 'boosting' or fake farm fed ID's, but many legitemate players.
hope that helps. warmly, dk
you know, i really got to think about an important point, a very important point that i missed while rebooting now--i have had connectivity problems the last month, and my new modem arrived tonight, but didnt want to instal it at night without potential helpdesk help, so hence why dogWaste at CTS has been at rest at 96.23% since at that level, one disconnect and it ruins the whole session, since i am ALWAYS going for 100%... but dkTransform forges on towards 86.0%... in any event, what i missed:
i have 461w/658L/28d= 1147 games.
id be very happy, sincerely, if it were 399w/801L since i ONLY play folks 200 to 300 elo> than me ++.
so i hate to hedge or fudge what are, after all, suppost to be firm figures, but i take a beating. last night, i played 18 bullets, winning 5 and lossing 18. it is not uncommon for me to loose 7 in a row.
can i win? yes. but i dont want to play peers. it is too silly. i want my sins, my chess sins punished.
these seniors do it well.
at times, i am almost winning, but, one slip, and they kill me. i want that.
at my posted rating, they let me get away with crap, and i dont want that.
so, with my methodology, my rating is quite deflated.
but, when i win, i get 20 elo. loose, and only loose 8, etc. so sweet.
lastly, if you play 200 to 300 elo > your own rating, it lowers the amount of play you can get. in reverse, it increases it.
but, do you want to get good, or do you just want your ego to win?
and, of course, as opposition gets harder to find, you do inevitably accept invites from peers. those do happen, so dont wish to portray ++ elo only or alone.
i have to take that too, at times, since out west in the usa when i play, it is morning in europe and folks here sleep when i am active, since i am a night person in western usa...and there is less play, then or now...
well, I sort of look at it the other way: I know I can play better chess than most of the blitzers rated hundreds of points higher than me, so the rare occasion I don't just throw the wins away, I'm more likely to crush them. so I feel it's actually easier for me to get points against stronger blitzers. I don't lose much points for defeat, but I still have a lot better chances to win that the rating difference would suggest. but as a training method, I agree that playing stronger opponents a lot more beneficial for improvement.
but of course, the reason why I throw those games is what keeps me the level I am. it's an integral part of my lousy blitz ability.
right now I'm taking a couple days vacation from blitz, after I hit a losing streak of 3 days in a row. I fell from 1270 to 1030, and was still going down. suddenly I just couldn't get anything right, no matter how badly my opponents played. I don't know if I was tired or just have been blitzing too much the last month, but I thought a little break was in order. I'll probably get back at it today or tomorrow.
thank you.
if i wasnt clear, i appolgize. yes, i prefer to play them, too, and like getting more points, but, as a comparison with your 'history' at ICC with my 'history' shows, you see this same sort of thing: series of games, seven looses or eight losses in a row, but, its not that bad, that is to say, it is not that painfull as many might think.
sometimes if i have not fallen too much, ONE game and my rating is back near where i was. they ALWAYS want a rematch, and sometimes i take them out twice. :) if i loose the second and third game, my rating is still higher!
i also feel that i can play bullet better than many rated above me, but, at the same time, the folks above me who play bullet are specialists in that form, whereby most of their games are <3/0. their flag is NOT going to fall at 0/4, in fact, they usually finish with 1:10+
i fell many times when i started at bullet from 1200 to 1000 or, even, on a few occassions to 950. but i always fought back and made it to 1350 several times, always getting back to 1250 or so.
now i fall to 1200 and no lower, and can usually get to 1300.
currently i am 1318 ICC bullet, and plan to be 1350 pretty soon, and try one more time for 1400 then stop bullet, and go back to rapid or 2/12 and get my 1600 back.
i do totally agree: if i play too much bullet, my results suffer.
after 3,000 CTS tries, i got on ICC and won three in a row, the second two against a 1550, then went down from there for another ten games, so more is NOT more. CTS works, i can tell you that! as you already know better than me!
i was thinking last night, i need to not only do my CTS each night as warm up, but then some CT-Art 3.0 and/or a little Reifeld 1001 Sacrifices and Combinations, THEN some ICC. in that order, but adding the heavy combinations to the mix BEFORE icc play.
the idea being to 'train fully with some chess', not some training then lots of ICC.
there are times when i have to play hard and long, day after day at ICC, and i am there now ... it comes and it goes. i tend to play zero chess at ICC or alot, and simply cannot do it in pieces, as, for me, it is a total endeavour with its own rythem and is as draining or more than CT-Art 3.0 FOR ME as it is the real true battle, the real place where 'the rubber meets the road', where boy chess players try to become men chess players. where 'hope chess' tries to become real chess players playing 'real chess'. :)
warmly, dk
third or forth visit in ten days, no new post. hungry reader, growllll!!!!
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