Aside from the usual "play better", because my cp loss
was not all that worse than his. They both sucked. On the other
hand I ran out of time in a 30+ MOVE GAME, and his clock stayed at 5:00 on the head. Look at the time analysis. I'm not sure I'm good enough to win a game against someone (from another dimension?), but I'm open to advice.
I looked at many of RATBOTL9's other games and checked the move times. In every game I checked, he used zero time total. I'm pretty sure your theory about him being from another dimension is correct.
Report him, its obviously a bot
By move 8 you look really good. You have a lead on development. You have three pieces out, you've castled. White has two pieces out and has not castled.
I think 9)...Re8 or Bb6 would have been worth trying. The White Queen out in the open like that gives you a free move before you capture the pawn on d5
the time issue is real
Yes, lots of terrible blunders on both sides, and I was WAY up here and there, then lost. It simply shows how time problems turn us into morons. I noticed the account is closed. In talking with a few people it would seem this was impossible without premoving every single move, which makes my loss even more disgusting.
Even if your opponent wasn't a real human, you can speed up your game by playing more aggressively.
Attacking is easier to calculate than defending, and will use less of your time, and if you fail an attack, you often lose some material and the initiative, if you fail to defend against your opponent's attack, you'll lose the game.
Even if we consider that your opponent might be a bot, your opponent's plans were aggressive and straightforward: they put both of their bishops on squares pointing at your king's castle, brought their queen to an attacking position, then worked to weaken/displace/capture your king's defenders.
You were able to defend against the constant checkmate threats, but I imagine that's where you ended up sinking most of your time.
Those are my thoughts about it, at any rate.
You had a huge advantage. If you had found 10...Ne5 then you would have been a few moves away from winning. Paradoxically you can shorten a game by thinking longer and you prolong a game by hasty, subpar moves.
10...Ne5 loses a pawn to 11.Bxh2+ Kxh2 Qh5+ Kg8 Qxe5, doesn't it?
I might be missing something, but that's what I saw.
"10...Ne5 loses a pawn to 11.Bxh2+ Kxh2 Qh5+ Kg8 Qxe5, doesn't it?
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...exactly why I shied away from it, but it was the best. After Re8 black is still way up...computer analysis exists for this, and shows
why I am so bad: it said I would have been up 4 and I saw only about +1.
Indeed black loses a pawn, but indeed 13...Re8 wins for black. Giving up a wing pawn like h7 is no big deal. The white king is not safe on f1. All the white pieces are still on his first rank, except for his queen, which were better not in the open as it will be harrassed by the black rook and bishops. People even gambit centre pawns for an attack, here gambitting the h7 pawn is a great deal for black. If you had spent some more time, you might have found 10...Ne5 when the zero time premove bot would have been helpless. You need not calculate this variations: you can sacrifice a wing pawn to activate your pieces and attack a trapped king on intuition.
You got an opportunity to win later in the game too 20 or 21...Qxd4 again with checkmate threats to the trapped king, but then you probably were already too low in time 1 minute to find the win. Though bullet players routinely find this kind of attack without more than a second of thought, i.e. on intuition only.