I have notice a strange and overwhelmingly strong trend. I only play 5+0 Blitz. I am -.2 against much weaker, weaker, and nearly equal opponents. I am +1.0 and +.5 against stronger and much stronger opponents. I have had numerous games against stronger and much stronger opponents with 0 inaccuracies, 0 mistakes, and 0 blunders. This is because I deeply analyze from the openings games I have played here sometimes all the way to mate against blunder I think a very good player might make under time pressure. When I see a fundamentally weak trappy opening, sometimes I can play all the way to mate mostly from memory. Yet when I am analyzing games between games I play, much weaker, weaker, and nearly equal players seem to me to be playing well above their ratings and driving my rating down sharply. Sometime, when I stop analyzing between games, I get paired against higher rated players and much higher rated players and my rating rises sharply. It feels like I am being punished for building an opening repertoire here.
Looks like your arsenal of opening theory is far more advanced then your other chess skills. The typical 1500-1700 player here leaves the opening theory on move 3-7 and has to find his way on the given position. But some of them have not that bad skills in the middle- and endgame.
It's time for you to train tactics, endgames, and so on instead of studiying more openings.
It's time for you to train tactics, endgames, and so on instead of studiying more openings.
+1 @Karpfenkopf
At first what you said made me angry. I thought from my perspective, the exact opposite was true. Higher rated players made blunders early to take opponents out of their opening preparation. Below 1800 opponents seemed to me to be phenomenally deep in opening theory. Then I realized I was memorizing tactics that were going deep into the middle game that were not really opening theory. That is why I have so much success against players rated more than 100 points above me who intentionally play theoretical blunders in 5 + 0 chess. What I thought was opening theory of players rated close to me and players rated less than me was actually mid game tactics. This made their openings see incredible deep and wide to me.
As of tonight, I have just started making progress with a new technique. I must talk to myself out loud to be conscious of where I am leaving my memorized lines and entering into my mid game. This is because I am split-brained, and need my ears to hear my thoughts to give the tactical side of my brain permission take control when calculations are in order. I need to continue to talk out loud, so that the theoretical side of my brain can have permission to chime in on theoretical issues such as passing pawns, pawn structure, coordination of my pieces, mobility, King safety, and all those wonderfully important rules of thumb that help guide tactics. This also helps with transition into endgame and endgame theory . But if I do not continue to talk out loud, I tend to get stuck in one side of my brain or the other. Thank you. It took a long time, but eventually I saw some truth in your words.
As of tonight, I have just started making progress with a new technique. I must talk to myself out loud to be conscious of where I am leaving my memorized lines and entering into my mid game. This is because I am split-brained, and need my ears to hear my thoughts to give the tactical side of my brain permission take control when calculations are in order. I need to continue to talk out loud, so that the theoretical side of my brain can have permission to chime in on theoretical issues such as passing pawns, pawn structure, coordination of my pieces, mobility, King safety, and all those wonderfully important rules of thumb that help guide tactics. This also helps with transition into endgame and endgame theory . But if I do not continue to talk out loud, I tend to get stuck in one side of my brain or the other. Thank you. It took a long time, but eventually I saw some truth in your words.
Think in terms of Ideas , Not moves :)
I hope it helps
I hope it helps
I am still seeing clear evidence that this site punishes for analyzing to build deep memorized tactics, because it is so effective against the oligarchs of chess here. Why should not the corruption of the Iron Rule of Oligarchy be as true here as it is is so much other rest of the world. Lower rated players are abused, even though they have broken no rules, because higher rated player do not like what they do. The only question in my mind is, is this being done by the site itself, or do they merely look the other way as vigilantes abuse lower rated players. I expect this at paysites because the motive is profit not justice. I am disappointed to find it here. But then again, France is looking more like the USA and Russia every day. Anger rules and morality is forgotten.
somebody pass me the nuts..
Sorry, I don't want to insult you, but you should give some serious thought to quitting chess. I think it's giving you mental issues.
Why CafeMorphy because you have none?
Yes, malus, that is the kind of thing sheepeople and their would be shepherds say. I live in the USA. I know all about sheepeople: conditioned to insult, lost the capacity to rationally debate. That is what allows oligarchies to continue to exist.
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