Probably most chess players do not look their blitz games in detail afterwards, maybe they will look up the opening part, but most people are not likely to do even that. I, however, go through all of my games, no matter what was the time controls used in the games, in the same way. Well, all the games that have some sort of notation that is. I can't really go through my over the board blitz games because I do not write the moves down, nor can I remember them after the game in order to write them down then. Maybe if I could remember all the moves and had time to write them down after the games, I would even keep track of my over the board blitz games. Unlike maybe other people, I think that going through your blitz games is useful. Because the games are played reasonably fast, you must often play intuitively what you think is the best move. I would suggest that if you are able to learn what kind of bad moves you intuitively play, you could not only improve your play in blitz, but also with longer time controls and spend the time thinking about your moves more beneficially.
The game below was a part of a warming up to a hundred game blitz training session against a friend of mine. Whenever I have had the chance to play these 100 game matches, I usually change the openings I play reasonably often, so that I do not get bored of playing the same stuff over and over again. At times when I struggle in certain openings, I switch to another one and see if that works out better for me than the previous one. In the game below it was time to see what would happen after I play 1.Nf3. Now that the match is at its half way mark, I have already played 1.c4, 1.d4, 1.e4, 1.Nf3, 1.g3 and 1.b3 if I recall correctly. With the black pieces I usually play my favorite lines against whatever my opponent is playing and I am not so willing of trying new ways to play. Kojjootti replied with 1...f5, which is a move that Stockfish does not seem to like. Despite of that it should still be playable and it only gives White a small advantage. On my 5th move I made a small mistake that brought the position to equality. Instead of 5.d5 I should have played either 5.Qc2 or 5.Bf4, for example. I like to play open games, so I went for the move that may open some lines. It was a bit too early to play 5.d5, but I kind of wanted to make sure that this will not be a closed game. After eight moves I had succeeded in my plan of keeping the game quite open, but because I had also traded queens, there were not as much tactical possibilities anymore. I was actually quite happy about it, because the position seemed easy enough for me to play.
The game continued to be rather evenly fought until Kojjootti made a horrible move on move 16. After 16...Rg8, I immediately considered playing 17.Nxf5, however, I also wanted to make sure that it actually is as good as I thought it might be, so I spend some time thinking about it. I spend over 20 seconds considering the move, which is maybe a bit too much time to use for that move. However, it should have been the move that decided the outcome of the game. I was able to keep the advantage on my side to the end of the game, but after my last move, which was really bad, I only had a clear advantage anymore. It did not matter because I had spent over 40 seconds for my move 26.f3, after which I was down on time and could not get the time advantage anymore and I lost this game because I ran out of time. I have added one mate in two, one mate in three and three mate in four puzzles today.
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