When your opponent is in time trouble, even in slight time trouble and you have quite some time, prepare a plan which consists of moves which are not so easy to expect for your opponent AND prepare your follow up moves. What can happen is that you make your move, and your opponent could be surprised and wants to reply fast, but then after the opponent reply you play your next move right away, according to your plan!
This can put quite some psychological pressure on your opponent and increase the time trouble, and there is more chance your opponent will blunder. Learn maneuvring and "do-nothing" a la Petrosian, Ulf Andersson and Karpov. Go through the games of these grandmasters and learn how to make good moves that slowly improve your position and prevent the options for your opponent.
The advantage is that you will learn how to do "nothing" or very little, but still not giving away chances or creating weaknesses What I often see is that especially lower rated opponents want to play agressive and either weaken their own position or start to blunder very soon. They simply don't seem to know how to do little or nothing to improve the position or at least not to lose. Or maybe they are just impatient at the chessboard? One thing I learned from a game from Petrosian is that in a semi closed position, where both players are putting all pieces on the best squares, it can be useful and fun to find a better and safer place for your king to just walk your king from the one wing to the other.
Often your opponent will not expect this and lose time, while you need little time because you have a clear cut plan. I have used these kind of king marches successfully several times in my games. Here is the fabulous king walk game by former World Champion Tigran Petrosian :. In positions where you are slightly better, repeat moves a few times.
With that you can possibly win time for yourself to think, and maybe making your opponent think that you might want a draw, but use the time to find a good move, continue and win. Make this a habit. Check your opening repertoire. If you are or think you are a positional and defensive player, you might want to make your style more all-round. Playing positional chess, winning one pawn, and then wanting to win a long lasting endgame can be done, but will take more time, and your chess skills need to be very good.
If you want to win lots of games in order to win a blitz tourney it makes more sense to adjust your opening repertoire and your chess style into a more sharp one, and take some more risk, possibly resulting in faster wins.
Of course such an adjustment of opening repertoire and style needs some time. Say some weeks, months. Apart from this, remember that in general in chess it takes often less time to play active, instead of defending a small material advantage. Today I am focusing on teaching chess online and offline. The reason why I do this is because I feel happy when see how my students achieve success.
I teach juniors since Almost all of my students were ranked. Some of them got prizes at Novosibirsk region Championship. I also work with adults. I will teach you how to find tactical strikes in certain position types and how to classify them. I can help you to improve you calculational ability. I also teach you chess openings and I believe you know how important they are.
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