I've been playing 3-2 blitz for a very long time. I started playing on Lichess in 2014 as a complete noob. The last couple years, I've mostly played 3-2, using the same openings of Queen's pawn (queens gambit, slav, etc) with white, and Caro-Kann / Slav with black.
I remember when most games were settled over rook positioning or a passed pawn. These days, and especially the last week or two, my rating is shooting up. I've won several games against 1900+ rated opponents who blunder their queen in the mid-game and resign. What's going on? Is it rating inflation? Sandbagging? Average centipawn loss seems a good measure of player strength, when openness of the position remains constant. My recent values are 46, 69, 103, 57, 19. Mostly quite unimpressive.
Chess is a hard game. Even grandmasters blunder, especially with short time controls. It may be that you're playing well and that is causing your opponents to have to think a lot harder, which increases the likelihood of blunders. Or maybe you got lucky and found overrated opponents.
Also, I would say that average centipawn loss is NOT a good measure of player strength until you get to the master or grandmaster level. For instance, your own values are all over the place. ACL is good at measuring how similar to a computer you are playing; I wouldn't take it too seriously.
@geobadger People blunder all the time, it's normal especially at lower time control.
However, I feel that the 1900 rated player cohort now is a bit different from the same rating 1 or 2 years ago. There has been a huge amount of new players joining at 1500 rating, which inflated the 1700 rating, which in turn inflated the 1900 rating. This phenomenon is particularly obvious in Blitz and Rapid, because those new players mostly play Blitz and Rapid.
Nowadays there're many 1700-1900 rapid players who don't have the basic knowledge of opening theory. For example, if you mess with the move order of Queen's Gambit a little bit e.g. 1.d4 2.Nf3 3.c4 and 1.Nf3 2.d4 3.c4, they would be tricked and play some randomly bad opening moves like 1.d5 2.Nc6/Bf5/c5.
@geobadger said in #1:
> I remember when most games were settled over rook positioning or a passed pawn. These days, and especially the last week or two, my rating is shooting up. I've won several games against 1900+ rated opponents
Everyone blunders.
But apparently you crossed a little barrier. There are a lot of topics in chess (like rook endings, pawn structures, etc), they take a lot of time to master, but once you get better at one, or more, they are worth 50-100 rating points each. Seems like you are getting better at certain topics and you have not noticed a significant change, but as little as it may be, it helps you to convert. Congrats.
Of course you will blunder if u play 3-2 you will be losing so much time i suggest u play 3+2
I always play with zen mode enabled. I can often 'feel' my opponent's strength by how quickly they develop, and how much pressure they put on me, move after move. It's always impressive when I'm up significant material and still they push.
Have you ever lost a series of games against a single opponent and you keep asking for rematches because you know they are only ever so slightly better than you?
That intuition for opponent strength has been thrown off recently. The 1900+ players don't feel much different from the 1800s and they all feel beatable.
Everyone (generally) blunders
@@KralSik31 said in #7:
> Everyone (generally) blunders
Yes your right even masters
Your Blundering In 3+2 Then Play 30+20,30+0 Take Your Time You Will Rarely Blunder At This Point .
Hope It Helped.
