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Originally posted by Dragon Fire
It takes 5 second just to register a move with the lag on my wireless connection so I can make 12 moves in 60 seconds - need to win pretty quickly then. I [b]can play bullet and I can win OTB with 60 seconds and I will comprehensively beat players rated 1200 or even 1500-1700 at bullet but that doesn't mean it is not a lottery.[/b]
It sounds as if your wireless equipment is dysfunctional and needs to be replaced if its still under warranty. There was a time my broadband company went down and I had to use dialup. Even on that I could still play online blitz.

My "fritzie" got to 2500 by eating up rybka's (little fishes) on the engine room and that is on old hardware and a wireless connection. Considering some dudes with decent hardware and the latest version of rybka are 2300-2400 then that is not too bad.

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People who take pot shots at bullet and blitz chess are just stupid, yes people are usually better at one form of chess over another however if you watch GM's and IM's play it's clear you can maintain a high standard of chess regardless of the time controls. Every form of chess has it's benefits, maybe if you get into time trouble in otb games playing some blitz or bullet chess can improve your time control.

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Originally posted by z00t
It sounds as if your wireless equipment is dysfunctional and needs to be replaced if its still under warranty. There was a time my broadband company went down and I had to use dialup. Even on that I could still play online blitz.

My "fritzie" got to 2500 by eating up rybka's (little fishes) on the engine room and that is on old hardware and a wireless conne ...[text shortened]... with decent hardware and the latest version of rybka are 2300-2400 then that is not too bad.
A lot of the engine games depend on opening books too. I have beaten many dual cores with my book and Rybka 2.2 32-bit and can sometimes stay above 2600 for a while.

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Originally posted by Falco Lombardi
A lot of the engine games depend on opening books too. I have beaten many dual cores with my book and Rybka 2.2 32-bit and can sometimes stay above 2600 for a while.
What opening book do you use, the default Fritz one or the one the rybka people say can be used for Fritz? I'm interested as some guy with a highly rated prog was telling me to finetune my book but I jest don't wanna mess anything up.

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Originally posted by z00t
What opening book do you use, the default Fritz one or the one the rybka people say can be used for Fritz? I'm interested as some guy with a highly rated prog was telling me to finetune my book but I jest don't wanna mess anything up.
My friend made a book from scratch and he wanted me to test it because my computer was better than his. Now he's got a dual core.

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My plan for getting 2000 blitz is this. Starting Christmas break I am going to:

Do about 20 minutes of the CTS every day.
Read "Logical Chess: Move by Move's" chapter on Queen Pawn Games.
After that, read "How to Reassess Your Chess." (Has a chapter on endgame .)
Then, I plan to start memorizing openings with a database.

Any good?

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Originally posted by Ramned
what is 'bullet'
According to the help menu on the playchess server :-

Bullet: for games played at a rate of 3 minutes + 0 seconds or less for all moves.

Blitz: games played at a rate of 15 minutes or less for all moves.

Long: tournament games with over 15 minutes for all the moves

Computer: ratings achieved with the help of a computer (only in the room "computers allowed"😉.

Centaurs: this is calculated for humans playing with computer assistance (or the other way around).

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To quote the legendary pool player Willie Masconi, or maybe it was Minnesota Fats, “If you’re good, you’ll be good shooting with a broom stick and potatoes.” To quote Masscat, “If you’re good, you’ll be good playing bullet, blitz, long, computer assisted, postal, server, or OTB chess.” Really.

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Originally posted by z00t
According to the help menu on the playchess server :-

[b]Bullet: for games played at a rate of 3 minutes + 0 seconds or less for all moves.

Blitz: games played at a rate of 15 minutes or less for all moves.

Long: tournament games with over 15 minutes for all the moves

Computer: ratings achieved with the help of a computer (only in the room "computer ...[text shortened]... this is calculated for humans playing with computer assistance (or the other way around).
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Are you sure that's right, here in the uk (and I thought also elsewhere) there is also a rapid play classification (between blitz and tournament long games)

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Originally posted by HomerJSimpson
you should try and read an repertoire book, not an opening book, which shows you the ideas behind the opening, not the exact lines itself. I like the english, because when playing White, a popular first move is 1.e4. However, then you are walking into your opponent's home court since he knows what he's going to play (in fact, he'll undoubtedly toss ou ...[text shortened]... od repertiore book on this, its called, "The Dynamic English," and I highly recommend it.
Repitoire books can be good ways to get into an opening. That said, they also tend to have specific lines that they recommend. For instance, Kosten in The Dynamic English recommends that you play
1. c4 2.g3 instead of the typical 2. Nc3. He really doesn't explain why he does this. Further, his specific line against the reversed dragon (with Nd2, d3, e3, then d4 is busted.

The other 95% of the book is good and he does typically explain ideas and why a line is good/bad as well as the myriad of transpositions available. If you want to play the english, form my money, that is the best starter book around.


In bullet or blitz, you will leave the repitoire often (more so at lower levels) which is where the ideas and tactics are important. I personally play 3/1 blitz to keep my tactics sharp. I play 2/12 for a semi-serious game that will be over in a short amount of time.

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Originally posted by stevetodd
Are you sure that's right, here in the uk (and I thought also elsewhere) there is also a rapid play classification (between blitz and tournament long games)
Yes I know the UK as probably the US or other countries have their "own classifications" but you will note I said according to the playchess server. In FIDE chess a tournament game is 2 hours to make 40 moves whereas on the Playchess Server any game over 15 minutes counts as a long game.

Technically speaking from a Playchess point of view bullet is one or two minutes to complete the game and not 3 as the help menu says. (I know cause I won a game against someone lower ranked (only gaining 2 points) at 3 minutes to complete the game and that counted as blitz not bullet.)

To solve the confusion FIDE might have to come up with official classifications as what we are used to in the UK is not necessarily what they are used to in other countries/online.

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There's actually a book devoted exclusively to speed chess. You can find it on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Blitz-Theory-How-Win-Chess/dp/0967775205/sr=8-1/qid=1166752649/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2100002-6205640?ie=UTF8&s=books

I glanced at it in a bookstore. It looked pretty good with lots of repertoire recommendations and time management. It's the only book i've ever heard of that devotes itself to blitz.

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To comment on blitz difficulty to CC difficulty.

My Slow on PC is appx. 1650.

My CC rating here is currently 1652.

My blitz and bullet ratings on PC have only gone as high as 1400 or 1450, and then they drop heavily afterwards.

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All it takes is effort as some people find CC incredibly difficult whilst others find OTB hard and others dread speed chess/Rapid/blitz. If you have seen OTB play you will note that some players struggle to get to the time controls and "seem to freeze". See http://chess.about.com/cs/reference/g/bldeftmp.htm

The only thing you can do is to just relax and look for a humanlike opponent like GNUChess with an opening book. Also going to the local chessclub may hep as although you will lose one or two in the beginning you adjust and pick up (assuming your chess club has more that a handful of players.) There is always someone you can beat and someone you can learn from.

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I did it!! I got to 2009 today at blitz, now for bullet. Whilst I've reached 2300 at blitz in the past, it takes a while to get "back in the grove"; considering I had a long layoff from blitz.

No one else here has gotten to 2000 on the playchess server yet?

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