Timeline for Pessimism in chess
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| Jun 16, 2017 at 20:06 | comment | added | Seth Projnabrata | Well with my experience I believe that playing sometimes with lower rated opponents is useful . It may not be the same fruitful learning for u but makes sense for me and many others . | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | Priyome | No matter what the time control, you learn far less playing lower rated players than you do playing up a class. You learn far less from your wins than from your losses. Since you are less likely to lose against lesser competition and more likely to lose against stiffer competition, it goes without saying that from a purely educational point of view, playing tougher competition will make you a better player and you will get more out of the games overall. I see no reason to differentiate between the two based on time controls. | |
| Jun 16, 2017 at 9:58 | comment | added | Seth Projnabrata | @Priyome..I think I clarified above . It is the shift of time controls . Lower rated opponents should be encouraged with long time controls and should be ignored in blitz/bullets . | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 1:01 | comment | added | Priyome | you said in #2 to play against lower rated players then say not to?? | |
| Jun 4, 2017 at 5:26 | comment | added | Seth Projnabrata | Do not play Blitz with lower rated opponents . My rating in chess. Com is 1880 but I find players with 1600 rating are good competitors . Play at least 15 mins of rapid game then u can make out their play . | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 18:30 | comment | added | Priyome | Point #2 is exactly what you should not do. That makes you a lazy player (your actual problem) and does not press you to play well. you should ALWAYS play higher rated players if given the chance online. Most servers allow you to give rating boundaries of your opponents - I suggest always playing someone rated 100-200 points higher than yourself. Then, when you eventually play the lower rated players (in an online tourney, perhaps), you will likely have an easier time of it, having not fallen into bad habits against lower rated players who did not punish you for your mistakes. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 8:44 | history | answered | Seth Projnabrata | CC BY-SA 3.0 |