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Anyone else absolutely atrocious at blitz compared to their standard OTB rating?

I've got my rating to ~1900 FIDE mainly through regular study along with plenty of OTB matches. However, my blitz play is way below this level. I'm known at my club for being horrendously slow and often losing on time. When I play faster and use my intuition more, I usually just blunder, it's frustrating.

I've been told improvements at blitz come with improving at regular chess, but I'm simply lagging way behind in terms of my blitz level compared to standard, however much I improve. Anyone else experience this or got any pointers?

Posted May 29, 2016, 7:47 PM UTC

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