I am the kind of person who likes to take time in thinking about my chess moves. I do fairly well in turn based games on chess.com but I get killed in live chess games, especially if its speed chess. My mind just can't operate that quickly.
Is there any way to improve my chess game in "live" games?
I have the same problem and I think that I agree with everyone else above - the more you play the more you recognize patterns in others play but I still have to stop making stupid mistakes.
You should play some more live games to get used to it, but don't play very fast.
When I play in OTB tournaments, the time limit is usually 2 hours per player for all their moves. When I play real time games online, I usually go for at least 45 minutes, and even that can be too fast sometimes.
I do play some quick games of 10 minutes or whatever occasionally, but I go into those knowing that I'm going to blunder horribly. As long as I look over the games afterwards to see what I can learn from them, it's still worth playing them.
--Fromper
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