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How to be better at blitz chess

Someone rated 1900+elos in blitz (and 2100elos in rapid!) asks how he can be better at blitz.
Everyone giving you advice (apart from that
really nice FM) is rated 1800+ elos and below in blitz. Like, come on, Dear @SqueezyAndEasy, you sure are better than many of us.
And then there is me, who's been trying to be 1900+ for 2months now! Any nice tips how you made it bruh? :)
Actually 1900 in blitz is a very good rating. It's the toughest pool. It's designed for experienced players with highly developed chess intuition. They know openings deeply, they don't hang pieces, their board vision is excellent. So it's a very specific chess pool. Note that most of those guys do not even play slow games or solve puzzles. They are specializing in fast games!
Thank you everyone, for ur views from ur perspective
I have not played blitz today
I did play 8 rapid games-It felt really good(5 wins /1draw / 2losses)
But I could not resist not playing bullet games(because I had downloaded multipremove extension-its really fun)
Lets see how well I do after a week:)
#3
"I am not that good at endgames-(I do know some of them)
endgames are really hard to defend for me(most times)"
Then it is clear what to do: study endgames especially rook endings as these occur most frequently.
You have to know how to win a won endgame or draw a drawn endgame also when short of time.
You have to know in advance which kind of endgame to aim for and which to avoid.
#14
Here is an example.
...Bc5 is a stupid blunder and this after 15 seconds thought...
You could have saved the endgame. ...g5 was bad. You had to play ...b5 to advance your candidate passed pawn and to shield the c-file with ...Nc4 if needed.
@tpr yeah i was thinking Oh the knight is coming to d6!and thought I had to stop it at all cost
and I should really practice endgames
is there any sites for studying endgames?
@SqueezyAndEasy

#1

You are better than almost 85% of players in that format on this platform.
So, you may feel like you suck but being in the top 15% of your peer group seems like a significant accomplishment to me.

#16

Here is a site you might want to explore: http://www.chessgym.net
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If you are really serious about studying endgames, you might consider investing it these two Chessable trainers which are recognized classics on the subject without being overly comprehensive:

1- www.chessable.com/100-endgames-you-must-know/course/5193/. Jesus de la Villa's classic will put you far above the general opposition in terms of endgame comprehension, without making you want to shoot yourself out of boredom.
2- www.chessable.com/van-perlos-endgame-tactics/course/13663/ . Because this should be a wonderful complement to de la Villa's book and everything I've read about it suggests it is a quite enjoyable read and very practically oriented book.

If you don't feel ready or capable of making the investment, Chessable has a great community-authored book on endgames which you can grab for free: www.chessable.com/basic-endgames/course/6371/ .
It just boggles the mind that one can get this type of stuff without paying a cent for it and be able to learn the move with interactive spaced-repetition.

If this free book is too comprehensive or ambitious for you, the following ones are also free and much more limited in scope:

1- www.chessable.com/essential-rp-vs-r-endings/course/90/
2- www.chessable.com/essential-endings-playing-rb-vs-r/course/5980/
3- www.chessable.com/essential-endings-mating-with-bn/course/2033/

Finally, have you ever tried Aimchess.com/?
I recently did and was quite favourably impressed by the free reports I obtained.
The information was beautifully and concisely presented and gave me an objective overview of my strengths and weaknesses with "bullet-type" diagnostics on different aspects of the game such as "openings", "resourcefulness", "endgames", "blunders", etc.
Of course, Lichess also provides users with its own analytical insights.
#16
Ask Santaclaus for "Dvoretzky's Endgame Manual"
#17
I can confirm that the van Perlo Endgame tactics book on Chessable is very entertaining, written with humor, with a lot of instructive and amazing content from real chess games.

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