Friday, January 23, 2015

The gift of the tempi

monvieux has been calling me out for playing too fast, and he's right. I've settled on the 10 minute time control, so it's a crime to be playing at a 3 minute time control pace. I'll have to work on slowing myself down.

Last night I had another losing session - 3 wins, 6 losses, and one draw. My long term goal must now take a back seat to a shorter term goal, namely, to win more games than I lose. If I can't achieve that, I'll never improve my blitz rating.

In one of my losses, my opponent gave me the gift of two tempi at the beginning of the game; he moved a knight to c6 on move two, and moved it back to its original square of b8 the very next move. This strange behavior nonplussed me. I assumed he wasn't very good, played too aggressively, and paid the price.

neostreet: 1159 (21-29-2 (52))
monvieux: 1293 (256-201-11 (468))

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