Anyone Else Bad at Bullet and Blitz but good at Classical?

@RickOShay

I don't consider myself good in fast timecontrols, but after looking up some of your blitz games, I got few suggestions

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-Try not to hang pieces : This seems really obvious, but your blunders in blitz is mostly hanging pieces & missing free captures

It is not your chess skill's problem tho- you're 1800 in classical

So, I advise you to always look out for hanging pieces

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-Puzzle storm: Try it out! (If you didnt know, there practice called 'puzzle storm' in lichess)

It really helps you improve in recognizing mate patterns & tactics fast, which is crucial for blitz and bullet

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Best of luck!

*My english is really bad Ik

Don’t get overwhelmed that you are bad at something, try to see the bright side and improve on what you can.
The famous Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar( Ik you wouldn’t have heard of him) said that chariots can’t run on water and ships can’t run on land, run where you can and do not try to run somewhere you can’t.

Yes, exactly me as well.

I don't know why I struggle so much against 1200, 1300 and 1400 in blitz and have less difficulty against players in the 2000 in correspondance; see the following game, mostly, until my move 9 where I find it a basic tactif (with all my respect to my opponent) :



My next step is try to improve in online games, because, maybe I am wrong about it, I pretend online games show the true strenght of a player.

@Acrobat31

Thank you for taking the time to review a few of my games and provide some feedback. I really appreciate that. Also, thank you to the others here who answered my question as well.

I have to agree with some of the other general comments (which is just my opinion), that I prefer to think and to play chess at a higher quality. I can see why others enjoy it, but to Acrobat31's point, when the time controls are just so short, it's like my brain just can't see that I'm hanging pieces...

@RickOShay said in #14:
> @Acrobat31
>
> Thank you for taking the time to review a few of my games and provide some feedback. I really appreciate that. Also, thank you to the others here who answered my question as well.
>
> I have to agree with some of the other general comments (which is just my opinion), that I prefer to think and to play chess at a higher quality. I can see why others enjoy it, but to Acrobat31's point, when the time controls are just so short, it's like my brain just can't see that I'm hanging pieces...

It’s quite natural and don’t worry bout it too much, if you really wanna improve in bullet, quit slow games, do your puzzles and play a lot. Last but not least, have fun while doing so :)

Me too. I wouldn't say I was "good" at classical but definitely better than blitz. Not worried because I don't see "speed" chess as a proper game anyway. I've never even tried bullet, don't see the point, its reducing the greatest game in the world to who can move the fastest.

Chess is about thought, reasoning, analysis, if you are quick then good for you but missing the point.

How does everyone find fast time controls to be hard? I personally find playing classical/rapid to be very hard. (My ratings reflect that. 2300 in Bullet, but 1800 in classical). I guess that the bullet pool is actually easy.

I guess I have a shorter attention span? It bugs me out when my opponents think for so much time...

@StephenPS said in #17:
> How does everyone find fast time controls to be hard? I personally find playing classical/rapid to be very hard. (My ratings reflect that. 2300 in Bullet, but 1800 in classical). I guess that the bullet pool is actually easy.
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> I guess I have a shorter attention span? It bugs me out when my opponents think for so much time...

Your opponent is likely browsing youtube, ordering food, talking to their friends, etc. They probably aren't thinking about the game. This is why bullet is the best time format, you don't have any time to goof off and do other stuff and still win the game, or at least it is less common than a 45 minute classical game versus a 30 minute classical game is pretty similar, so 15 minutes of fun during a 45 minute game is fine.. If you aren't comfortable allowing your opponent to take off 15 minutes for fun then you should play blitz/bullet/hyperbullet/ultrabullet, not rapid/classical.

Because you'll simply never know if they are thinking about the position or goofing off in classical/rapid, it's just not worth it to play online. There's too often that a player can break TOS without it ever being 100% obvious in classical.

@Wisherwood said in #18:
> Your opponent is likely browsing youtube, ordering food, talking to their friends, etc. They probably aren't thinking about the game. This is why bullet is the best time format, you don't have any time to goof off and do other stuff and still win the game, or at least it is less common than a 45 minute classical game versus a 30 minute classical game is pretty similar, so 15 minutes of fun during a 45 minute game is fine.. If you aren't comfortable allowing your opponent to take off 15 minutes for fun then you should play blitz/bullet/hyperbullet/ultrabullet, not rapid/classical.

That's completely untrue, I concentrate the entire game when playing classical online and use as much time as possible calculating potential combinations and so on. I treat it exactly the way I would if I was playing OTB and as soon as I lose my concentration I absolutely crumble.

Blitz/Bullet have nothing to do with ideas, creativity or strategy, essentially everything that's interesting about chess.