Has anyone tried these tournaments? I think similar tournaments like
these are offered in chessmaster9000 also.
Basically, they have pre-defined tournaments and you can enter in
them and after you win a tournament, another one gets unlocked.
There's 5 hidden tournaments for each category. I started in the
first category which is for 0-1200 rated players and are 10 min blitz
games. I got through the beginning tournaments getting first place in
them and then i would lose a game, or get a stalemate, or even run
out of time. So i would get mad and create a new account and start
all over. eventually the same thing would happen to me. The farthest
i've gotten is 41 wins and then finally i got a lost. I've created
about 30 new accounts so far and the same thing keeps on happening
and its sooooo annoying. Its seems like the opponents are playing at
a 1200 level and then when they are losing they start playing at a
1600 level or something. And with only 10 min its hard to play decent
chess and prevent counterplay. I don't think i should be losing to
players rated 0-1200(mostly its the 1050-1200 opponents) but because
it is 10 min blitz, I can somewhat understand it. My john chess
rating is around 1530 and thats for 30 min chess so maybe my 10 min
rating could be around 1200. And i do suck at blitz and playing chess
without a physical board.
Any comments?
On the other hand, i found some new GM josh W (kid from searching for
bobby fisher movie) lecures in the kids section so that brightened my
day 🙂 There's about 12 of them and the first 2 i saw are really good.