I clicked on "Analyze Game" and Stockfish wouldn't find any blunder or mistake. I had lost two matches against the opponent previously (on other days) so this game was just ... perfect.

(Is there any blog posts / etc on the distribution of accuracy-percentages, potentially for various ELO levels? I am pretty surprised that I played so accuracte given that I tend to blunder regularly)

 

so my rating on lichess is higher for rapid (close to 900) than to blitz (close to 700), and I kind of wonder whether this is due to differences in the pool of people playing rapid vs blitz, or whether I am just a not as good at thinking fast.

I have played A LOT of blitz games in June & July and only recently really picked up rapid games. Overall I think I am not even making too much use of the additional time quite often in rapid as I am still somewhat used to the time constraint in blitz (e.g. I never lost due to time-out on a rapid game), so I don't think its actually me playing much better in rapid than in blitz

 

So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..

 

In most recent games, the opponent just attacked aggressively in the first 5 moves and I am somehow not able to defend correctly.

Also, the opponent is usually not playing "stockfish moves", so I have the feeling they wouldn't stand a chance moving that early that aggressively if their opponent wasn't me.

(10+0 rapid at >900, <1000 ELO)

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