Blitz

Originally posted by King Tiger
Agree. I play on chess.com for blitz chess, not here. Wish Russ would put more effort into it (hint). I'm confident many players would make use of it.

what is the name?????.... I play as ziro_the_gray in chess.com
and nevergambits in lychess.org

five min.... 0 bonus

a lot of fun today. a lot of fellow players in the room....

what is a good time limit? 1 min is too fast to play good chess....

but 5 min is still a good enough to play decent chess....

there are very fast players in the room...

10 min.... is a eternity

A not so classic bishop sac but its going in my memory banks. Open f file knight on e5 queen on d1 and the bishop on the b1-h7 diagonal against a castled king without the defending knight on f6 = bxf7+

Originally posted by Schlecter
what is the name?????.... I play as ziro_the_gray in chess.com
and nevergambits in lychess.org

five min.... 0 bonus

NF82

My attempt in the last blog to get a crowd on the blitz site on Sunday
was a spectacular failure. Every time I paid a visit there 5-6 and no more.

It may because it has no rating or record of Wins, Draws, Losses that people
find it so unpopular.

I find it a horrible interface. I don't like playing with an increment on principal, but without it I just keep losing on time because the physical act of moving a piece takes so long.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
My attempt in the last blog to get a crowd on the blitz site on Sunday
was a spectacular failure. Every time I paid a visit there 5-6 and no more.

It may because it has no rating or record of Wins, Draws, Losses that people
find it so unpopular.

This is why I love the RHP blitz, is like a trainning place,
like a tea room,or a place just to play chess without nothing to lost.

I warm in RHP and then I change to the lichess.org or chess.com to play rated games.

Even better in lichess you can play blitz against a computer (no-rated game)

Rigth now nobody is in the blitz room

I'm a fan of RHP in general, it's where I got back into chess after a very long hiatus, and the forums are good.
However, the blitz site is just prehistoric.
No pre-moves combined with the extremely clunky interface make increments a necessity, and it becomes really hard to justify spending time in the blitz room when I could just be at a more blitz friendly website (I use chess.com).

Originally posted by WeeDSteM
I'm a fan of RHP in general, it's where I got back into chess after a very long hiatus, and the forums are good.
However, the blitz site is just prehistoric.
No pre-moves combined with the extremely clunky interface make increments a necessity, and it becomes really hard to justify spending time in the blitz room when I could just be at a more blitz friendly website (I use chess.com).

chess.com username please? mine is ziro_the_gray

Just finished off this beauty

Originally posted by Data Fly
I find it a horrible interface. I don't like playing with an increment on principal, but without it I just keep losing on time because the physical act of moving a piece takes so long.

I only play with an increment unless its long game (10 mins).

On chess.com I play 1 min and 8 sec increment. It normally
equates to a 5 min game but without the pain of timing out.

Originally posted by iChopWoodForFree
Just finished off this beauty

[pgn]1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. g3 fxg3 6. hxg3 c6 7. d4 b5 8. Bxg5 f6 9. Bf4 b4 10. Nh4 bxc3 11. Qh5+ Ke7 12. Nf5+ Ke6 13. d5+ cxd5 14. exd5+ Kxd5 15. Nxg7+ Kd4 16. O-O-O+ Ke4 17. Bg2+ 1-0

[/pgn]

Nice pseudo-sac on c3.

From playok.com/en/chess:

I feel like a Grandmaster on that site!

Originally posted by Data Fly
From playok.com/en/chess:
[pgn]1. f4 e5 2. d3 exf4 3. Bxf4 Qf6 4. Qd2 Qxb2 5. Qc3 Bb4 0-1[/pgn]
I feel like a Grandmaster on that site!

You in the blitz room here?