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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#18

@RafaelNajera great analysis, thanks! @greysensei nice example, thanks.


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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#13

@Le_Patzer83 said in #12: > @LukaCro > > I just checked. At one point I was 2208 rapid and 1645 blitz at the height of my ratings disparity. Lol!but I managed to add 410 points to my blitz rating as a…


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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#8

@petri999 said in #7: > it is usually big just because "Rating as relative". There is absolutely no reason to assume that 1500 in on pool mean 1500 in a another pool. > > In pools with big inflow/outf…


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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#6

@Akbar2thegreat said in #5: > Disparity in blitz and classical ratings of players is pretty common. If there's negligible disparity, then player is suspicious if not a top level player. Do you now a c…


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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#4

@MrPushwood said in #2: > Gotta admit, I've never heard that one before. It's simple, many adult beginners can't stop blundering when playing faster games. They just don't see the board well enough. I…


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General Chess Discussion - What is the biggest rating disparity between blitz and classical chess you know of?#1

I often hear that improving adults can become pretty good in long time control chess, but not in blitz. This makes sense, but in the practice I always see these ratings follow each other. Do you know …


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General Chess Discussion - Men and Women Play Chess at the Same Level Why Segregate Them?#44

@michuk said in #43: > We incentivise women to play in open events by having both a women's only prize system and an open event prize in the same event like how Gibraltar Open is done. Women compete o…


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General Chess Discussion - Men and Women Play Chess at the Same Level Why Segregate Them?#42

@michuk said in #14: > FIDE has separate titles, events and prize money for women. The open events are there but the inherent rating gap means top women players don't get invited much to the elite che…


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General Chess Discussion - Men and Women Play Chess at the Same Level Why Segregate Them?#12

@michuk said in #1: > I did Further Mathematics at college and in our Advanced Statistics class we were taught about this thing called mean of population. They said the mean of two population samples …


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General Chess Discussion - Chess books reading order#6

@Vilik_Klika said in #1: > Hello, I've just purchased these books - > > 1) Pawn Structure Chess (Soltis) > 2) Mastering Opening Strategy (Hellsten) > 3) Mastering Chess Strategy (Hellsten) > 4) Master…


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