So I just played a blitz game for warm up
here
http://en.lichess.org/WnHWCozQ#43
and the game was not bad
but was not good either
this is a typical game of mine in which I lose on time
until move 22 (or 17 or so) I was comfortable little by little improving the position, more or less, its blizt,
but then I had a position in which I was "winning" but I had no idea of how to take advantage,
u see that the game in general does not look tactical, perhaps im mistaken so if I were a player with more experience maybe I would have been able to come up with something but what I usually have is a position in which, sometimes, I am slightly better, specially with white, but I dont have the time to find the answer and this is why I dont improve
It requires a new level of thought as I said in the title
and I cant do that in seconds I can only move pieces
so thats just my analysis of my last blitz game, I wanted to share it because maybe others have this issue, when u reach a position and its slightly winning but its a slow win
thats why I dont believe in blitz but I keep playing it.
I think blitz gives you the false idea of learning chess, It does not work for me, maybe it works for others.
I think I am a positional player, a positional patzer, although I have been focusing on tactics lately, my strength is the position or thats what I like in the game, my player is karpov I think, the player where i learnt chess from
but that type of play its usually not good for blitz anyway, just my two cents.
In short I dont think its possible to play chess in such a short time frame, I find it unbeliavable however the facts are against me cause top chess players play it all the time.
But then I look yesterday, I took a random game of Carlsen
this one
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1744962
and I was amazed about that move, g4, I mean how is someone gonna learn anything like that playing blitz,
even top players need hours of analysis.
I am not talking about Carlsen maybe he is a special case and he just knows the answer but Gelfand or anyone in general needs time to understand such idea.
here
http://en.lichess.org/WnHWCozQ#43
and the game was not bad
but was not good either
this is a typical game of mine in which I lose on time
until move 22 (or 17 or so) I was comfortable little by little improving the position, more or less, its blizt,
but then I had a position in which I was "winning" but I had no idea of how to take advantage,
u see that the game in general does not look tactical, perhaps im mistaken so if I were a player with more experience maybe I would have been able to come up with something but what I usually have is a position in which, sometimes, I am slightly better, specially with white, but I dont have the time to find the answer and this is why I dont improve
It requires a new level of thought as I said in the title
and I cant do that in seconds I can only move pieces
so thats just my analysis of my last blitz game, I wanted to share it because maybe others have this issue, when u reach a position and its slightly winning but its a slow win
thats why I dont believe in blitz but I keep playing it.
I think blitz gives you the false idea of learning chess, It does not work for me, maybe it works for others.
I think I am a positional player, a positional patzer, although I have been focusing on tactics lately, my strength is the position or thats what I like in the game, my player is karpov I think, the player where i learnt chess from
but that type of play its usually not good for blitz anyway, just my two cents.
In short I dont think its possible to play chess in such a short time frame, I find it unbeliavable however the facts are against me cause top chess players play it all the time.
But then I look yesterday, I took a random game of Carlsen
this one
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1744962
and I was amazed about that move, g4, I mean how is someone gonna learn anything like that playing blitz,
even top players need hours of analysis.
I am not talking about Carlsen maybe he is a special case and he just knows the answer but Gelfand or anyone in general needs time to understand such idea.