Actually, I don't know that for a fact, and I'm hoping that someone can prove me wrong, but my average time per move is over 23 hours!!  I haven't seen anyone else over 12 yet (of course I haven't looked at all 44,000 profiles either).

So this is my open apology to anyone I am playing, have played, or will play.

I'm not deliberately trying to stall.  I'm not looking at my games and then spending days contemplating my next move.  As many of my opponents can testify, if we are both online, and I get into the game, we can go back and forth making many moves before one of us logs out.  Unfortunately, this also results in me ignoring all my other games for that time period, even if one or more of those opponents are also online.

Before I make a move in any game, I like to fully think it out, and examine all my options and where each of them may take me.  I have made too many hasty mistakes in the past, and I'm trying hard not to throw any more games away by moving too quickly.

I find that if I'm playing too many games simultaneously, my brain starts to get the games mixed up and a strategy that I was thinking about in one game tries to manifest itself in another game where that strategy would not be appropriate.  As a result, I usually don't even look at a game unless I know I have the time to dedicate to it.  Sometimes, when I finally get to the game, my next move is so obvious that I could have made it days ago with little thought, but I was unaware of how obvious my move was cuz I hadn't looked at the game yet.

So it's almost ALWAYS my move in at least half of my games.  To avoid timeouts, I will usually pick the game with the least amount of time left to start concentrating on.  This results in me spending more time and making moves more often in games with lower time controls.  My sincere apologies to everyone playing me in games with higher time controls as they ineveitably wait longer for me to get to them.

I don't like saying, "No" to challenges, so I had to set a maximum number of games.  Now when one of my new friends tries to play me, the system tells them that I am not currently accepting challenges.  I have a lot of people that I have promised to play once I whittle down my number of games in progress.

Finally, I often play while I am at work, or doing my laundry or whatever, so just cuz the system says I'm online doesn't mean I'm in front of my computer.  And of course, the more time I spend in the forums (which I like to do) the less time I'm actually playing my games.

So once again, I apologize to everyone, and I hope this helps explain why I am so slow at making my moves sometimes.

I hope someone can point out a profile with a higher time per move average than I have.  With over 44,000 active members, I really hope I'm NOT the slowest player on Chess.com, even if I am slower than EVERYONE I play.

I'm sure that as the year gets further along I'll start moving slower than I am now, which is pretty fast

How do you know it's exactly 23 hours? I mean..where can you see that statistics?

As one of said new friends whom you've yet to challenge......  I say apology accepted and warning duly noted.

My assessment is that you're a much more thorough player than I am.  I rarely spend more than a minute or two on any given position, which leads to many mistakes.  But that's just the way I roll.

Don't sweat it though; if slow is the way you play, then that's your choice.

Whoa!  We posted at exactly the same time!  That's freaky! 

To answer your question, Diana: it's on the righthand side of your "my online chess" page, near the bottom of the statistics.

yes,we are freaky,lol  Thanks for the answer,Jack :-)

No prob, Diana.  You freaked yet, Bilium?

Jack,did you know Billium is an actor?

Only because I read his profile, lol.  I think it's awesome!  I've never known an actor before.  Though I didn't recognize the movies you listed in your repertoire, Billium.  Could you maybe say a few more of them?  We might have seen one!

I put that link on my favourite:

http://www.alienstoneentertainment.com/

holy blocks of text

Hardy har har.  That's a good one.  Bet he's never heard it before. 

Hmm.  I'll check out that site.

Impression so far: It's very green.  Haha.

Xyo wrote:

holy blocks of text

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Yes,it's green and scaring,lol

Oh.  Haha.  That's from an old batman show.  Robin (his sidekick) would always say Holy "insert whatever word you want" Batman!  Like "Holy Understatement Batman"!  Or "Holy Cabbages Batman"!

He said it all the time - it was a running joke.  And it would change depending on what was going on.  It probably sounds really weird to you.  I think you'd have to see the show to think it was funny. 

and I watch everything in spanish so I hardly would understand it anyway,lol

Good point!  Holy "insert word" is an English expression after all!  I have no idea how they would translate it.  Or, more accurately, approximate it.  A direct translation would make people laugh for a very different reason, lol.

I will ask to an english speaker friend who also speaks spanish,How is the exact expression?

Vale.  It would be fun to find that out.

But tell me the exact expression in english,please-