I am rated around 900 and have been for about a year in 5 min blitz.
I don't take chess as seriously as I use to, lack of studying opening variations, and honestly just not putting time into it.
I know I'm not great and I make mistakes. However the people I am facing make perfect trades into the end game, make perfect tactical moves, it just seems unlikely that so many <1000 players can be so overwhelmingly strong.
I don't want to call it cheats, or anything, I just want to understand why under 1000 feels worse than some of the tournament play I have experienced at the 1400 and 1500 level.
Just seems impossible.
I don't take chess as seriously as I use to, lack of studying opening variations, and honestly just not putting time into it.
I know I'm not great and I make mistakes. However the people I am facing make perfect trades into the end game, make perfect tactical moves, it just seems unlikely that so many <1000 players can be so overwhelmingly strong.
I don't want to call it cheats, or anything, I just want to understand why under 1000 feels worse than some of the tournament play I have experienced at the 1400 and 1500 level.
Just seems impossible.