Reaching 2300 on lichess rapid in 2024
Professional HS poker player, also very active in chess..
Been playing since i was 6, mostly online on chess.com and lichess, self taught , dont even know the coordinates except e4 , d4 etc
Have been playing unrated for the past 6 months, as i've been expanding my opening repertoire , and analyzing games after, so i fill that im ready to start rated again..
ill be playing 10+0 , 4/5 games a day , not everyday, and will post the games , perhaps some more experienced players can jump in
as white, i always liked e4, but now im using Kf3 as my main opening, mostly transitioning into the english
as black , i always used the kings pawn or the sicilian vs e4, now im using the karo-can , and vs d4 i 90% of the time play Kf6, and main lines , and not changing that , as i always did good there
i will also be solving puzzles and reviewing every game
Starting at 1912 , Screenname : timkasp
not sure if this is the right forum to do this , or if its something that its not usually done , mods can delete it
First 40 hours , cruised pretty fast to 2k
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This is my 2k game
And this is a really annoying one , where i completely outplayed him the whole game , but ended up with one minute on the clock , and pretty much mated myself
last game of the day , 4 inaccuracies and 2 mistakes , most in the first 10 moves , stockfish did not like my early sac
current rating : 2015
cheers mate
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last 2 days , played 7 games , was really not playing well , not managing time correctly , lost cause i was low on time, then starting playing faster , which lead to mistakes
played some e4, got into the classic sicilian which i really hate playing against , but he just blundered a pawn out of the opening , and i didnt manage to convert , as i missed Be3+
dropped under 2k, and then used my last resource as i wasnt playing well ,and played the ponziani , as i've studied this opening quite in depth and i tend to use it when im not playing that well
managed a quick win , to get back to 2k, and then quit ..
overall just playing bad , not focused enough and not managing time well
current rating : 2002
Putting this on stand by , goal far too ambitious , would take way too much time
will come up with an easier goal first ..
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We will talk again soon Martim
Hey MartimC, remember me?
I have found you , you have been a bad bad boy.
You have lost many players money on app games and you blame it on the app owners, but I have found out the truth. It was you who did the scamming. You may have played poker ok one day, but you have been broke a long time now.
We will talk again soon Martim
Hello,
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I got ripped off by a Martim that I met at Borgota Casino and played on some app games under him, and I thought this was the guy. I did not do enough research and realize this is not him. I was overwhelmed by my distress over the past week. Sorry for the mistaken identity here.
I've taken immediate action by reporting the posts, hoping that the moderators will remove them.
dont have much to show , other than the occasional unrated game
still wanna resume this thread , but its gonna be on stand by this year
no drama here, nothing to see :p
im back at stealing points
is there any correlation between the way you play poker and chess ? very similar game i guess if you have a more risk taking mentality , it'll define your play style in both games
sacked 7 pieces , gimme the 2 years
Wow people are so bad at recognizing enginelike play. That was clearly just horsesheet. 😉
Yes I think there is similarity in the way I approach both games. I tend to be more tilty in chess for some reason though.
well this was a 20+6 game , i dont have time to play for that long , but once in a while why not , i'll eat these 2200s for breakfast
couldn't be a bot, +0.4 and i make an 'inaccuracy' that brings it to 0s , took stockfish 15m to give his best move 0s , and the true backwards horsy was in fact the only move to keep the advantage
apart from that , yeah i blunder mate in 2 , but i'd seen the win already so... you know how it goes
Yes I think there is similarity in the way I approach both games. I tend to be more tilty in chess for some reason though.
this is 100% accurate for me , but for me poker is a job and chess an hobby , so could be that
Going Kramnik on someone is supposed to be against the rules on Lichess. That guy should get a time out for accusing you without proof.
i really don't see the issue with this game...
i haven't studied openings for a while nor played over the board, when i studied the scandi , i do analyse the games i play tho, Qd8 really doesnt need a lot of studying to know that you'll get a +0.7 to +1 out of the opening , Qa5 i always play b4 Qxb4, Rb8, followed by Bb7, and the queen moves 4 times in exchange for a pawn, and has no development, and its quite easy to play for white, and its also something like +0.5 to +1 , this Qd6 is a way more 'recent' move , that i haven't studied a lot , and its best by test, but in the scandi you can always just play solid , and end up with a much easier position to play despite having 0s on the computer
i obviously saw 11.Nb4 and its a free pawn for black , but goes against every chess principle .. Black is gonna need his knight to defend his king, he's pushing on the wrong side of the board , and i can give up my rook and get his knight to a1, and i saw i could plant my knight on e5 creating all sorts of tactics , i could take the pawn on a6, another critical defensive piece , and i could also plant the white bishop on c6, which is worth like 6 or 7 points .. his queen is stuck , his king side needs at least 3 tempos to develop , so just knowing that Nb4 cant be a good move and that there must be something ... obv i didnt calculate everything nor would anyone be able to , but a lot of tactics are gonna come up ofc .. im down 5 points in material , but his most active piece , the white bishop is disconnected from the king and taking a diagonal that i really don't need to use to press with an attack, his queen cant move, his king side bishop and rook already felt asleep , knowing that they are never gonna move
and i take 10m out of a 20m+6s game from move 11 to move 15 , so yeah i was really considering Na3, cause i can bring him back to attack and he has no pieces to defend his king
ofc there are 2 mistakes on my part where stockfish laughs at my moves
first of all he wants me to play B back to c4 instead of b3, im not even gonna try and understand why, probably to trap the knight , seems unnecessary
but later it does prove that black can defend with this ridiculous Kc8 move - variation - Kc8 20.Bb5 20.c6 21.Nxc6 21.Nb6+Kc7 22.Nxd5+ 22.Bxc6 23.Qc7 and black is winning
but yeah game goes on , 19. Bb6 19. Nd7 20. NxN 20. RxN, and i plant the bishop , just eliminating all the knights which are the only pieces that can protect his king and i bring back that knight that went backwards to replace the one i traded for his knight
21. Ne5 , 21.Rd6 forced
22. Qb5 forcde and 22.b6 which leads to mate in 2
yeah i saw Qa6, Na5 and missed Qa8 mate, only looked at Qb7 mate , but i had 1m on the clock and like i said i knew that if i took both knights there was no way he could defend the position ,as his Q cant move , both his bishops and rook are doing absolutely nothing and d5 is coming even at an expense of a knight as im opening the dark squared bishop that will end the game , taking the knight goes from 0s to +5.5 , think i would be able to convert this position vs most GMs , pbb not vs stockfish but yeah.. black is getting mated after i take the knight anyway
so yeah its just knowing that a move cannot be good , could've gone wrong ? ofc as apparently theres 1 or 2 ridiculous defenses that stockfish can find , but overall the position is much easier to play for white , and all my pieces are active and pointing at his defenseless king , saying this game was dog **** , i understand it... its not normal even for masters to play so aggressive just cause a move is bad , its still early in the opening and very easy to miss a move when you go into extreme tactical lines, i play for fun tho , and yeah with more time on the clock can find some good moves.. obv you play 11.Nb4 vs a top GM and you get the same outcome but way more accurate , they will punish these moves very easily
i end up with 83% accuracy , 2 mistakes and 1 blunder ( the mate in 2..) and he has 72%, position much easier to play for white, and black has to be really accurate to defend to justify that pawn + rook grabbing
just to clarify that missing Qa8 is normal in these positions , as theres also , Qa6 - Rxc6 , Nxc6 ++( which is also easy to miss) if that isnt mate and with 1 minute on the clock , i've wasted 30 to 40 sec and now have to play with 20sec after taking the knight .. cause Nxc6+ - Kb9! , NxQ, BxN and i have a queen for two pieces vs a bishop pair a dead Q on a6, and all of the sudden his worse minor is better than any of my pieces
been getting back to blitz , and keeping this thread for myself mostly..
playing 3+2 only , played some unrated games , i should be underrated there, so lets see how far i can go
first rated game , starting at 1700
2025 is the year
2300 lichess semi-rapid , 2k OTB fide classical
aim for CM by 2026 , and then pbb quit cause i'll get bored
gl us , will be updating ratings and some games
1 game per day 10+5 (fide rapid)
30 to 1h every other day , atm busy schedule
after reaching 2100 , looking to play some OTB games
(+17)
(+13)
(+10)
So , been focusing more on training , and studying new openings , doing puzzles and try to convert the 'better position' vs stockfish , which becomes extremely hard even a piece up when there's plenty of pieces on the board , atm pbb managing to convert around 30% of the time (counting 'easier' conversions)
trying to play 1 game per day , but got some other stuff that requires a lot of my time atm , and with the study i end up playing tired , getting better positions in 90% of the games , blundering some tactics tho , but priority atm is to expand the opening repertoire , solve puzzles and try to convert the winning positions vs stockwhale , reviewing every time i don't manage to convert until i get the W. which can take a long long time and a bunch of tries , its exhausting , but a very good way to improve converting winning positions with > +2 without losing the edge
still haven't managed to take stockfish on K+Q vs K+R xD which can be a really good way to understand square control better
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Still doing this only to keep track of my progress , but any opinions/advice will be very welcoming
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little background ..
Started playing when i was 6, literally with a book of old games, never had chess lessons , did study and watched a lot of videos on chess.com years ago
pbb reached 1200 when i was 14/15 where i would easily beat the school chess teacher, and 1600 around 18 .. this was always on and off and would not play for 1 entire year , and then study and play a lot for like 3 months ..
around 24 , i reached around 1800 and since then been going from 1900 to 2100 blitz and rapid , and now putting in the study that i never did before i think i could eventually reach 2200 fide
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think we can get this up to 2300 quite easily , its just a lot of work for the brain
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if anyone would be able to give some advice on this Question would appreciate
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atm im sacrificing elo points to play side lines on openings im not as prepared.
i think my strength is piece coordination, playing with solid positions but at the same time im pretty sure my tactical skills and and long term compensation instinct is very good , like sac the exchange for a 2 way game , and my ability to calculate 5 to 6 moves ahead while spotting tactics is way above average compared to your 2k lichess rated player , and then back to playing really solid in endgames and squeezing wins by pushing and forcing mistakes , and in endgames i usually play the top or 2nd top computer move , this is 'only moves' to get that +0.8 conversion
i also really don't have issues exploiting bad openings : ex game 1 above , and would say i would blunder on those 'fishy openings' pbb 1 in 20 times, all the others i just get a winning position
so.. with white i've been mixing with an rng(lol poker) e4,d4,c4,Nf3 , until i play all 4 of them .. been trying to play a lot of side lines , ex catalan accepted , game 2 above, where i play Nd2 which is far from the best move , but forces black to play Nc6 which creates an unknown territory and more tactical possibilities , i'll also play them main line and mix in the ninzo indian , even tho im a big catalan fan , ill review after , as i know these sidelines but i end up in unknown territory quite easily
i really don't enjoy playing e4 that much , even tho i spent countless hours studying e4 e5 , sicilian, pretrov , pierce, karo-cann, scandy etc , i just don't like those super theoretical positions and there's not many tactical possibilities without knowing the very specific lines, or playing something suboptimal like the ponziani , evans-gambit , gioco-piano etc
same as black , i just really avoid playing e4 e5, its just fighting for equality and just really boring games
but as black i play several different lines vs the english, ninzo vs d4 or the slav / semi-slav once in a while , i never play the kings indian .. vs e4 i never studied enough to play the scandi , neither its an opening i like , i rarely play e4 e5, i tend to play the sicilian a lot and i know deep theory into closed and openend sicilians (taimonov, najdorf, dragon, classical) which is where i outprepare my opponents and leads to the tactical games that i enjoy , do mix some caro-kann , which im still studying ..
all of this to ask
shall i stick to d4 for a while (where i have my best winrate) , and play just the catalan and rng side lines/main lines , and play only karo-cann for example, even tho biggest winrate with black is the sicilian.. and stop mixing so many openings ? see the ones that fit my play style better
but otoh , playing e4 e5 is a must for my goal , and avoiding it constantly might be an issue ?
not sure i made myself clear , its hard to memorize a sideline if played very occasionally , and its also very boring to always play the same opening
Cheers
