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Is there a way to set a minimum move timer, so that you can't make a move before the timer goes off, per move? A lifetime of playing chess wrong has developed a rushing habit that is impossible to break with will power. Looking for a training wheel.
Jan 4, 2021
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nataddrho wrote:
Is there a way to set a minimum move timer, so that you can't make a move before the timer goes off, per move? A lifetime of playing chess wrong has developed a rushing habit that is impossible to break with will power. Looking for a training wheel.
No kind of feature like this exists. And in my opinion, adding a feature wouldn't help. You could just as easily pick out a move too fast and wait for the timer to end. So I suggest working on the fundamental issue - to take a little more time on each move.
Dec 6, 2023
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I found this thread because I was looking for the same thing. Even when playing with no time controls, I struggle to play slowly enough and end up blundering.
For me, it seems to be about the ability to focus. When I feel like my focus is there, I can sometimes beat a 2100 bot, when the focus isn't there, I often lose to bots several hundred points lower. I don't think this has much to so with my abilities to calculate or see tactics but more about the amount of time I spend on those things.
Sometimes I tell myself to count to ten, slowly, between moves. By move six and without even realising that I've done so, i've stopped counting and started blitzing out moves. There seems to be an irresistable urge to play quickly. I know that sounds weird but I just can't help but move too quickly.
Maybe its because I play bots who move instantly. Or maybe its a symptom of the larger problem of modern entertainment being delivered as a bombardment of small and easily digestible snippets. Thought provoking content becomes rarer and my ability to focus is compromised. I even struggle to read a novel these days without my mind constantly drifting off.
Classical chess seems to have great potential as a tool to practice the discipline of focus. I would dearly love to have a setting where I could set the minimum move time to one minute or even just 30 seconds. If I practice enough then perhaps it would become second nature, just like it used to be.
There doesn't seem to be any technological barrier, though I guess it would only make sense in certain time control formats.
So, I'd like to ask chess.com to consider this as part of a suite of tools to promote the lost art of focusing.
Play on a computer and use the timer on your phone. If you do not have a phone or are using it to play, purchase a timer. While a timer would make you follow a rhythm as in playing against a bot, it would be useless/detrimental in an actual game IMHO.
SzulcDaniel wrote:
RapidGirl2207 wrote:
Hmm, I am looking for the exact opposite same thing. I need a timer to go off when I'm taking too long on a move, which I invariably do, frequently timing out when I have a better position.
would you rather blunder and lose that precious advantage ?
Losing your advantage is better than losing the game. Much better.