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What is your chess rating? Fav opening? Wanna play?
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Fell back down from that peak rating in 10 minute rapid all the way down to 900 and back up to 1144 (at the moment). But I decided in the last few days to play 3 minute blitz again, which is the time control that I lived in for most of 2021 and 2022. It's a lot of fun, but not generally recommended for players really trying to get better. I resign myself to improving only so much (no pun intended), but keeping it fun. The graphic below is misleading.
When I signed up for chess.com I erroneously said something like "intermediate" when I was asked my skill level, and it assigned me a provisional rating, but then I also played others with new accounts too, who had provisional ratings, so my rating didn't stabilize to reflect my actual ability until I had played a larger subset of other established players.
So even though my three minute blitz stats page on my profile says my highest rating in that time control was 1077, it's actually currently the highest it has ever been, as a reflection of my actual performance against other established players.
Anyway, all this being said, I do believe that I will continue a long term trend of improvement with a continual cycling of blitz, rapid, and daily time controls, along with periodically taking in video lessons, and doing tactics puzzles.
Also, I have told a few friends this privately, but not made it public yet. I'll share it here first. I'm doing a knife give away soon where playing two games of chess with me, one as black, and one as white is the entry requirement. I have not yet determined the time control or other details yet.
When I signed up for chess.com I erroneously said something like "intermediate" when I was asked my skill level, and it assigned me a provisional rating, but then I also played others with new accounts too, who had provisional ratings, so my rating didn't stabilize to reflect my actual ability until I had played a larger subset of other established players.
So even though my three minute blitz stats page on my profile says my highest rating in that time control was 1077, it's actually currently the highest it has ever been, as a reflection of my actual performance against other established players.
Anyway, all this being said, I do believe that I will continue a long term trend of improvement with a continual cycling of blitz, rapid, and daily time controls, along with periodically taking in video lessons, and doing tactics puzzles.
Also, I have told a few friends this privately, but not made it public yet. I'll share it here first. I'm doing a knife give away soon where playing two games of chess with me, one as black, and one as white is the entry requirement. I have not yet determined the time control or other details yet.
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