Blitz strategy: play like a complete idiot

Play like a complete idiot the first couple of moves, this will give your opponent a false sense of security and he will adopt a laissez-faires playstyle and eventually make blunders. Here is an example:

Huum..this doesn't prove anything.

It even works in long over the board games. Lasker called it the "Vorgabestil" i.e. "odds style".

Famous examples Karpov-Miles 1 e4 a6

Michael Basman:
1 d4 h6

Magnus Carlsen:
1 a3
1 Na3
1 d4 b6
1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Ng8

you would be suprised how much games I won by this..

If 9. ...Qxd5 there might be very little room to come back though

@lodvaluedfunction 12. ...Bxg7 is another. Imo quite abnormal to miss two captures of Queen when you have ~4 mins on clock, no matter how idiotic your opponent has been playing.

@lodvaluedfunction just 6.Bb4+ and it's all over.
@cmimo a style that's likely to make your position completely lost on move 6 isn't worth trying.

brilliant idea, could keep it for yourself though someone could copy it

When you play against other players at our level, you don't need to bait them into making blunders, you just need to wait. Eventually we will make the blunders anyway.

I dont understand, do you always play that bad? I do not think it's intentional.