Rating Climb #01 - Hitting 2400

After my article yesterday analyzing my win against Stockfish, I received a degree of criticism saying that my rating on Lichess was too low to be able to even think of defeating Stockfish. Well, here's my answer to you:

23 Blitz games - 19 wins/1 draw/3 losses to gain 123 points in one day to reach 2443!

As I told you before, this is not my main account. So I don't play many games using this account. But some of your comments left me with no choice but to gain rating to prove that I am worthy of creating a club of my own (The Club of Believers) and continuing my Against Stockfish game series (Link to the Study). But I know that 2400 won't be enough for many of you. That is why I decided to start a new series:

The Rating Climb...

In this series, I try to use my algorithms to improve my Lichess rating on all 4-time controls (Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, Classical) to answer the criticism I received on Social media. As I already have a bullet rating over 2600, my next goal will be to raise my Blitz rating over 2600. But this is not going to happen automatically, I am going to need some refinements in my play. For this, I am going to use a set of rules:

• Glance at everything:
  Try to broaden your list of candidate moves instead of focusing your attention on a single move
• Good over Great:
  Getting to good positions that require less calculations is better than getting to great positions that require more calculations
• Keep it simple:
  Play simple moves that allow you to keep more time on the clock while keeping the evaluation of the position stable
• Make them decide rather than calculate:
  When your opponent is in time trouble, try to get to positions that require decision-making rather than calculations
• Stick to the known stuff:
  Stick to your known openings so your search will be more focused on the good moves of the position, allowing you to play your moves faster

This is my set of rules. I hope you are also learning something from these articles just like I am from writing them. I won't stop this series until I get all my ratings up to 2700 (including classical, although I don't know how difficult that would be)! I will continue to answer the criticism I receive as much as possible through these articles as long as I don't feel like it's a waste of time. I am open to feedback, but only to knowledgeable ones. So if you are going to come up with feedback, know that not all of them will be replied to, but when they do get replied, it will be stronger than you may ever imagine.

Now I'll share one of the games I played during my rise to 2400...

Lessons from this game:
> Practicality is more valuable than perfection in blitz
> There's always a chance as long as you can keep the game going
> "The mistakes are there, waiting to be made"

External links

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@felew699 (No videos yet. I am still working on it)
Twitter: https://x.com/felew699
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/member/felew699
Against Stockfish: https://lichess.org/study/2guM490P
Opening Study: https://lichess.org/study/xeTeuu3A
The Club of Believers: https://lichess.org/team/the-club-of-believers

Special Thanks to...

Grammar Editor: https://app.grammarly.com/
Practicing and blog writing site: https://lichess.org/