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Ioannis V posted an update
Hi all, really excited to be here! 🙂 Question please! I haven’t really been playing against players much due to either the fact that each game takes ages or on the flip side I dont have enough time to think 🙂
I’ve been playing against bots where there is no time limit and I can play moves in between meetings etc; I just finished with the 1500 bots atm and moving on. Do you think I am just wasting my time and would be much more beneficial if I played against players only.?
Thank you!!
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Not wasting time, but real players will throw you curves that the bots will not.
Try the 15/10 rapid games when you have a half-hour to spare.
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Start in on the lessons ASAP.
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Thank you I should probably, I started the lessons and got to the stonewall one which I’ve been practicing vs bots ever since..
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You can play daily games where you have 1-3 days to make a move. I love it cause I can continuously play other players even if I’m busy.
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As mentioned above, daily chess is an option to play slow games where you can incorporate the new knowledge learned here into your game, without any time pressure. Sometimes, I also like to play against the strongest computer (3200-rated chess.com) from a certain position. For instance, I played again a human opponent today. The opponent abandoned the game after losing the queen, so I played the rest of the game against computer. Despite of significant material advantage, it was not an easy one – the computer will uncompromisingly punish any mistake you make. But there was no time pressure, no cheap blunders of the opponent that would have helped me. I was really forced to focus, avoid mistakes, find weaknesses/targets for attack and exploit them. As the computer will not blunder any pieces, it rather forces you to address strategic weaknesses like backward pawns, overloaded pieces etc.
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