I always hated over-the-board blitz/rapid #chess, because I was really bad at it and would blunder pieces left and right. But I recently started playing online chess with Lichess. And blitz/rapid works really well online. So I started playing a lot of fast games.
A month ago, I had a Lichess Blitz rating of 1600 and decided that it would be cool to try to get to 1700. Today, I got to 1700! Apparently I set my goal too low. 😄 Maybe try 1800?
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