average thinking time for "turn-based"?

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Avatar of MDTR

my turn-based is ~1650, blitz 1150!... i guess that says (beside that i'm a terrible chess player) i'm thinking too much my moves when i play turn-based games?  1 to 5 minutes here... (unless i have a forced move or a simple position)

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It just so depends on how familiar you are with the opening to start.  Something you've never seen or played before might take a day's research before you're comfortable choosing a plan.  Stuff you know can be blitzed out.  How many games do you have going?  I played a guy a month ago who was comfortably playing 200, although to tell the truth he was kind of "sandbagging" since he had a 10% timeout ratio and his real rating was therefore higher.  

Depends on how competitive you are as well.  I used to "sweat blood" over every move when I first joined.  I'd spend 2 or 3 hours over anything that wasn't crystal clear.  NM awrats (I'm probably misspelling his handle, sorry) has built a whole teaching system based on just that approach.  He credits his rise to becoming a titled player to sweating every move in correspondence chess.  I found it was driving me a little crazy so I stopped doing it.  Of course maybe becoming obsessed with the game is the quickest and surest way to become good.  I don't, and apparently never will, know.  

I keep telling myself to slow down now and at least sleep on every move in a 3 day move game but it basically never happens.  I know that when you find a good move you should always look for something better, but I'm usually just so happy to have found a good move that I play it.  Lowering expectations and aspiring to a fine level of mediocrity has its' own rewards.  No more of that waking up in the middle of the night with an idea for a line and rushing to a bank of chessboards to try it out.  Of course as I look around the apartment I do see 4 chessboards set up with positions so maybe I'm just trying to kid myself.  Back on topic, I do find some guys who play 3 day chess as though it's illegal to move before the third day, but most seem to take less than a day.

Avatar of MDTR

thanks for the answer i wished people would had participated in the survey

Avatar of baddogno

I might have scared them away, sorry...Here's an older thread on the subject, couple more in the archives if you want do a "search forums".

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-much-time-do-you-spend-thinking