Blitz and long games

Macpo

Only Chess

13 Mar 10

Macpo

Joined: 01 Oct 08
Moves: 13897

13 Mar 10

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Can you tell me why when I play blitz I much worse than in longer games? it is clear on RHP, but also, I played a bit in ICC; and my 15 minut rating was around 1900; while my 5 minut one was 1300...7

and what to improve?

Exuma

Anansi

Woodshed

Joined: 16 Apr 07
Moves: 35523

13 Mar 10

I'm interested in this too, I really suck at blitz 🙂

Thabtos

I am become Death

Joined: 23 Apr 10
Moves: 6343

26 Apr 10

Your calculation is better than your pattern recognition.

wormwood

If Theres Hell Below

We're All Gonna Go!

Joined: 10 Sep 05
Moves: 10228

26 Apr 10

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Originally posted by Macpo
Can you tell me why when I play blitz I much worse than in longer games? it is clear on RHP, but also, I played a bit in ICC; and my 15 minut rating was around 1900; while my 5 minut one was 1300...7

and what to improve?

training openings and blitzing more have helped me the most. tactics didn't really affect my blitz at all, nor did endgames.

as to why? for me the reason is lack of experience. the guys who have played a decade or three do much less errors in the 'easy' things in blitz. it's not trivial to get those simple things correct in a time scramble, you see even GMs screw up elementary pawn endings every day on ICC. nobody's immune to it, but experience goes a long way in catching those errors in time.