![]() ![]() One aggrieved, if melodramatic, Australian slid into my DMs to tell me: “Greed and worthless pursuits are your inheritance.” I remain a little concerned today that my family may now be cursed.īobby Fischer once said “blitz chess kills your ideas”, and that seemed to be what was happening to me. What’s more, it attracts more than a few angry messages. You can gain plenty of Elo points by running down the clock – sprinting around with a king and two pawns while your infuriated opponent chases you – but it doesn’t exactly improve your game. I was primarily playing blitz, a format where each player gets three minutes a match, and I began to win more often due to my opponents running out of time rather than by any tactical mastery. ![]() I couldn’t stop playing after a win, because one often leads to another, and I definitely couldn’t end on a defeat. But sometimes the milestone would never come – and so neither would the sleep. If my rating was anywhere near a round number, for example a ranking of 1,500 or 1,600, I would delay sleep until I got to the next hundred-mark milestone. A club player has an Elo of about 1,600, while grandmasters are rated over 2,500. I devoured every episode of The Chess Pit podcast and became a disciple of Gotham Chess, a popular YouTube tutor.Ĭhess skill is measured on the Elo rating system. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit brought millions more on to the servers, and I revelled in beating them with knight forks, discovered attacks and sacrifices. Learning by losing, I got to grips with the basics – develop your pieces, knights before bishops, control the centre. ![]()
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