Yesterday I suffered one of my more humiliating chess defeats, losing four games in a row to an over-the-board player. In my defence, I was playing someone who makes a habit of playing 5 minute blitz games online and so my opponet was well practised. In contrast, I was not. I occasionally play online games against a computer with no time limit but rarely play humans online in any format.
I don't like defeats and so it seems obvious that, if I'm not to suffer further defeats (and my chess partner has threatened to return), I must raise the quality of my playing through constant online practice. To that end, I'll need to resume using lichess.org and choose a suitable time format. I think the 10 minutes with a 5 second increment is probably the best format for me. the 5 minute games I find too stressful.
I'll give it a go anyway and see how it works out. It's the best and quickest way to improve my playing and it's something that I should have done years ago. I'll use this blog site to report on my progress. I'll play on my laptop initially as I find the small screen on my phone difficult to use, although I guess this is something that I need to overcome as well. This constant play also gives me a goal, namely to improve my rating. In some ways, it's no different to playing Wordle and trying to improve my statistics for that game.
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