"Chess is above all a fight"-Emmaunel Lasker
If even in 1-minute and 3-minute games you repeat the same boring openings-Exchange French, Exchange Slav, Queen's Gambit Declined etc, I feel sorry for whatever sadomasochistic pleasure chess gives you.
My greatest respect goes to the players who are seemingly always lucky
Dear everyone that got flagged in blitz/bullet: Please don't play a fast time control and then take the moral high ground when you couldn't keep up. I suggest you solve your flagging problems by playing at a time control which suits you more-eg: all moves in 2 hours+1 minute increment per move
The GM draw death isn't occuring, but with commentators getting excited about novelties in equal positions at move 25+, it's not far off. Soon the computers will make GM chess a shadow of what it used to be. But for amateurs, I think the creativity and enjoyment of a game played by oneself is still there.
| Type | Rating | Best | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Wild | Rating | 1682 | Best | 1764 (13/Dec/2013) |
| Type | Blitz | Rating | 2165 | Best | 2278 (08/Oct/2013) |
| Type | Standard | Rating | 2110 | Best | 2119 (02/Aug/2013) |
| Type | Bullet | Rating | 1965 | Best | 2124 (21/Nov/2014) |
| Type | Bughouse | Rating | 1253 | Best | 1263 (09/Nov/2013) |
| Type | Loser's | Rating | 1565 | Best | 1599 (14/Jun/2014) |
| Type | Crazyhouse | Rating | 1475 | Best | 1562 (21/May/2013) |
| Type | 5-minute | Rating | 2032 | Best | 2142 (20/Oct/2014) |
| Type | 1-minute | Rating | 2088 | Best | 2373 (15/Jul/2014) |
| Type | 15-minute | Rating | 2039 | Best | 2150 (11/Apr/2014) |
| Type | 3-minute | Rating | 2075 | Best | 2225 (18/Mar/2014) |
| Type | Chess960 | Rating | 1177 | Best |