RE: Today I Discovered . . . 1 Minute Bullet Chess With Magnus Carlsen
I had NO IDEA any of this existed!
I WILL check it out ... and probably become massively obsessed. :-) Thanks for the heads up.
BTW ... don't be too intimidated. There are many ways to play chess and once your brain adapts to a different "style of chess," you can improve very quickly.
While in the Legion, I played a LOT of chess and was used to killing everyone I played. Then ... I ran into a Romanian. When we started playing, I thought he was a lunatic. His strategies made no sense whatsoever. He beat me. I was dumbfounded.
As I outranked him, I ordered him to play me again.
He beat me a second time, but only marginally.
More compulsion.
After 3 or 4 games, my brain had adapted to his "style of play" and I started figuring out how to capitalize upon it (all "fixed strategies" become predictable and therefore can be countered). And hence, I started beating him. In the end, in order to have any chance of winning, he had to abandon his style of play completely. (He was still a bloody phenomenal chess player).
Quill
I know it's awesome, a real treasure trove and definitely a rabbit hole you'll fall deep into :-)
I used to play with 2 friends about 3-4 times per week and we just kind of let it drift, I was doing a lot of online incremental chess, you know like 5 minutes with 3 second increments for every move.
But this is a whole new world, I'm getting into the one minute games now. Check out lichess.org, you can play anonymously or create an account.
Cg