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| Posted by masros uskidscompute.com 11/25/2004 08:34:55 play online chess |  Subject: Is it true or not?Message: Is it true or not?.A strong blitz player is also a strong player in longer time control and vice versa. |
| Posted by jjw109 uskidscompute.com 11/25/2004 11:14:47 play online chess | Probably true for some but not for others. Message: Look at ICC for example--you'll see GMs with relatively low ratings, and non-GMs with really high ratings. |
| Posted by jollylolly uskidscompute.com 11/25/2004 15:24:29 play online chess | Probably ! Message: Probably ! |
| Posted by bonsai uskidscompute.com 11/26/2004 02:42:29 play online chess | Message: Certainly not entirely wrong, you have to know something about chess to do well at both long and blitz time controls, but different playing styles and attitudes (e.g. towards playing unsound moves) have different impacts at different time controls. And of course there's just some people that do not cope with time management in blitz games very well. |
| Posted by gunnarsamuelsson uskidscompute.com 11/26/2004 08:30:14 play online chess | Message: Id say that 95% of all players could at least play good chess in both categories if they really made an effort to do so. If theyre not really old and actually function slower. Then some players may play thousands and thousands of blitz games while others seldom blitz at all. |
| Posted by gunnarsamuelsson uskidscompute.com 11/26/2004 08:38:45 play online chess | not to be mistaken Message: to games on this site or corr games at all that is a totally different thing then otb games. |
| Posted by honololou uskidscompute.com 11/27/2004 13:52:45 play online chess | I would guess… Message: that there would be little correlation between one's ability at blitz vs. correspondence chess. Blitz play rewards sharp lines and novel positions—things that most decent correspondence players can refute with a little time and analysis. Really they are two totally different games. |
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