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I enjoy a quick game on lichess, mostly blitz. What I discovered about chess is that it is largely pattern recognition that makes people good at chess, which

I enjoy a quick game on lichess, mostly blitz. What I discovered about chess is that it is largely pattern recognition that makes people good at chess, which is visual thinking. The other thing about fast games is the type of game you play, if you want an early result you generally go for early sacrifices to get positional advantage and queen side castling to open up the game. Come to think of it, fast chess is probably a different game all together

matsemann 4y ago
Bullet chess is also quite a different game, as the short move time opens up metagaming. Since it's so fast, you have to pre-move. Basically that's saying "if this move is valid when it's my turn, instantly play it", to save time. But then people end up speculating on what an opponent will pre-move. Maybe you do something unexpected, so their premove doesn't work and they have to do another move and lose some. Maybe you can assume they have pre-moved something, so you can do something that's objectively a bad move, but get away with it since they can't punish you for it, having already decided on their move etc. Quite a different game, but fun to watch.
- peter_retief 4y ago
  Bullet is a bit too fast for me, find myself making really bad moves but then so does my opponent. I should play bullet a bit more often, really is fun.
libertine 4y ago
>What I discovered about chess is that it is largely pattern recognition that makes people good at chess, which is visual thinking. I don't know why, but when I realized this it was a bit of a turn off for me. I still play chess, but the idea of climbing ranks became less appealing because it's simply a matter of volume of games: You play more games, you recognize more patterns, you climb. So now I'm content with my rank, because it's the rank I'm supposed to be with the volume of games I play.

matsemann 4y ago

Bullet chess is also quite a different game, as the short move time opens up metagaming. Since it's so fast, you have to pre-move. Basically that's saying "if this move is valid when it's my turn, instantly play it", to save time. But then people end up speculating on what an opponent will pre-move. Maybe you do something unexpected, so their premove doesn't work and they have to do another move and lose some. Maybe you can assume they have pre-moved something, so you can do something that's objectively a bad move, but get away with it since they can't punish you for it, having already decided on their move etc. Quite a different game, but fun to watch.

peter_retief 4y ago
Bullet is a bit too fast for me, find myself making really bad moves but then so does my opponent. I should play bullet a bit more often, really is fun.

libertine 4y ago

>What I discovered about chess is that it is largely pattern recognition that makes people good at chess, which is visual thinking. I don't know why, but when I realized this it was a bit of a turn off for me. I still play chess, but the idea of climbing ranks became less appealing because it's simply a matter of volume of games: You play more games, you recognize more patterns, you climb. So now I'm content with my rank, because it's the rank I'm supposed to be with the volume of games I play.