Originally posted by ulysses soulIf you check helden's rating graph you'll see that the vast majority of his games are against players rated under 1100,a lot are in the 900s.
how do you manage that?
figures were reset at around 10.30. it is now 24.30. it makes 46 moves per hour. a move every 1 minute 20 seconds. keeping on like that for 14 hours. no food? no toilet? hum?
how do you manage that?
Now,I don't want to offend all the 1100 and under here,but moving against them doesn't need to take much time on thinking about the next move,hence the quick moves.
Hence the rating of the guy doesn't reflect his skills,as he almost never played 1200s and above,and the very few times he did it he lost.
The real challenge is to move fast as Dustnrogers or Cheshire the Cat and mantain n very good standard of game like they do.
Originally posted by ulysses soulI don't know about the other guys but I can tell you that I certainly learn. I also remember each game and the combinations....not to mention the fact that I remember what I think the next best move is going to be. 🙂
i got your point. i understand and agree. but still, is a hell of a physical effort. i wouldn't be able to do it.
what do you get from playing chess like this? for sure you don't learn. you canot even remember a single game, nor a combination, nor a nice move. whats the point.
~ Cheshire Cat 😀
CC is right - once i passed around 40,000 moves my mind seemed to move into another gear - you can really can move almost on instinct without thinking about the precise game you are on.
However, of course, moving without thinking is also a negative point sometimes as my archives can demonstrate !!
I played in a 5 minute blitz marathon at ICC one year. It was for 24 hours and I had a support team to bring me food and water. After 23 hours I was in top position but a guy named GotMilk was right on my tail... The thing about this tournament was that anybody could join in any time, and so in the last hour I was facing players who were fresh.
I couldn't hold them off and Gotmilk passed me, but I did take 2nd place. Probably still on record over there.