What’s more, it attracts more than a few angry messages. You can gain plenty of Elo points by running down the clock – sprinting around with a king and two pawns while your infuriated opponent chases you – but it doesn’t exactly improve your game. I was primarily playing blitz, a format where each player gets three minutes a match, and I began to win more often due to my opponents running out of time rather than by any tactical mastery. I couldn’t stop playing after a win, because one often leads to another, and I definitely couldn’t end on a defeat.
But sometimes the milestone would never come – and so neither would the sleep. If my rating was anywhere near a round number, for example a ranking of 1,500 or 1,600, I would delay sleep until I got to the next hundred-mark milestone. A club player has an Elo of about 1,600, while grandmasters are rated over 2,500. I devoured every episode of The Chess Pit podcast and became a disciple of Gotham Chess, a popular YouTube tutor.Ĭhess skill is measured on the Elo rating system. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit brought millions more on to the servers, and I revelled in beating them with knight forks, discovered attacks and sacrifices. Learning by losing, I got to grips with the basics – develop your pieces, knights before bishops, control the centre.
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