ADD, ADHD affect on chess
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May 3, 2025
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I have ADHD but I can only play Rapid because I overthink my moves for Blitz and Bullet but I lose interest in my planning in Daily
May 4, 2025
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I was diagnosed as a child with ADD. No H. I guess it's the opposite. ADHD is better at speed chess. I am better with more time. Interesting.
i have been playing so long that my blitz is 300 higher than rapid because I am only thinking in terms of winning tactics at the moment, plus it's that I built a very simple plan structure to attack. mostly it's flagging
May 4, 2025
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ADD was changed to being lumped in with ADHD, there are just two kinds of ADHD now. I don’t believe anything such as autism,ADHD,OCD,ect has a role on your chess- just your own self, which sometimes can affect chess.
May 4, 2025
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imoveB wrote:
I was diagnosed as a child with ADD. No H. I guess it's the opposite. ADHD is better at speed chess. I am better with more time. Interesting.
ADD and ADHD are actually the same thing, there was just a misunderstanding when scientists were originally discovering it. People with ADHD can vary with their affects but it is overall the same thing 
My experience is that I completely cannot play speed chess at all. Cannot think about the moves in the same way as I can with more time. Rating difference of probably almost 1000 ELO from classical to blitz. Others have similar experience?