One thing you need to understand about skill with coorespondence chess, and I notice a lot of my friends get confused about this, is oftentimes you begin games months back and start training or whatever, and then assume that your newfound skills will help you save games you started long ago.
The fact of the matter is, in coorespondence chess, never expect the results of a real training decision to manifest until 3 weeks in the future, at best, okay? Do you see?
LOL, my newfound skills helped me lose games I was winning long ago.....
Not at all - your newfound skills were unable to save games your old skills had long since already comprimised!
Let me get out of the forums... m newfound skills just blundered a Rook....
lol
This kind of thing happens to me, and most everyone I think. Whenever you learn new information, especially with chess it seems, your brain can't put it to use right away. It first has to intergrate it with everything else you know, so for a time, you'll backslide ratingwise. But give it a few weeks and you'll have a higher rating than before. It becomes more apparent if you take a couple weeks of from chess, because you'll notice, atleast I always do, that you play better than ever after such a long break from the board.
Let me get out of the forums... m newfound skills just blundered a Rook....
Your misfortune is hilarious.
your great
haha!! play how you feel. slow does not always mean better.
many blitz players suck at regular
Here are some ideas to explore:
When playing slower, are you reaching a point where you think you've found the right move, and later you talk yourself out of it and play something else? Does the other move often turn out to be inferior?
When you adjusted your speed of play, did that also affect the amount of time between when you look at moves for a game? If the time between moves is shorter did you lose "background thinking" time? If the gap is longer, did it make it harder for you to remember what you were doing in the game?
I am, I think a very fast player. My average time per move after about 1600 games is less than 25 minutes, and I like to have 40-50 games going.
Then I make a concsious decision to slow down, cut my games down to about 20, and contribute more in vote chess games.
So, in two weeks my rating dropped by 140, what's up with this?