New answers tagged time-management
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I used to be pretty high up on chess.com bullet (1 min), what seemed to help me the most was:
Tactics, Chesstempo is a fantastic site to use but there are many. Counterintuativly, I would recommend not focussing on being fast, just go for correct solutions however long it takes you to be sure. Massively improves vision and pattern recognition.
Go back over ...
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I am not an expert, but I would say blitz is 'art' part of chess. It requires a few skills to be good.
Time management is obviously very important as there is not much time in a blitz game.
I have few tips about time management, and you should know that most important ones are not to waste so much time in opening,
not to waste too much time in forced moves ...
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Practice by playing at a fixed time per move. Ten seconds is good, you could use 20 if ten is too fast.
Time up means you must move but also you must wait for time to be up to make your move.
this will train you to think some and avoid problems with fast moves that are bad. It also helps you move quickly in time trouble which wont happen often if you ...
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There are multiple factors involved.
To improve blitz you must first improve your regular chess.
Clock management. You must make every move at the rate necessary to finish the game without flagging and never take more time for any move that that average. Learn to move at your time quota and not faster nor slower.
Your brain. It has a maximum speed ...
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Blitz is a bit of a different chess "animal". In order to play blitz well, you need a few things, and that is great tactical vision, good time management, and some positional skill so you can make decent moves quickly in quieter positions. It also helps to be young because you think faster when you are young.
The first part to getting better is obvious, and ...
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Seconds, and the players themselves, absolutely use engines to help them find moves, but you cannot just let an engine run and think that it will spit out useful things. There would be too much information, and most of it useless.
First, nowadays, more and more, elite players are resorting to using Leela and Fat Fritz (neural network type programs) since ...
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