Do you calculate a lot?

Do you calculate a lot or do you go by intuition? I'm not talking of forced captures and stuff.

Yes.

No.

Tactics win games.

Took a lot of time for me to realize this, but it's true. Players fall for them. Even the high-rated ones, sometimes.

It's much simpler than that. If God wants you to win, you win.  If God wants you to lose, you lose.  Why complicate it?

I think God has more important things to consider than who wins your chess games. Frankly, it's entirely possible that He enjoys letting you determine such trivial aspects of your fate.

I try to calculate less and less with the years adding up

Yes ,often excessively ,even in blitz games.Im just obsessive compulsive like that.It happens when I know in my gut there's a tactical blow somewhere and I decide to calculate even if it will cost me the game due to losing on time.

In long games,I really calculate alot even in seemingly quiet lines.

I know most people are lazy to calculate but Im just a perfectionist and a paranoid one at that.I hate uncertainties.I know how to cut down my calculation though like for example when I am low on time in tournament games,I cut down my candidate moves.

I guess Im belonging to the researcher type of player rather than the pragmatists.

He and two other guys from Triskelion.

Next, you're probably going to try to tell us that God doesn't check every day to see if we brush our teeth, and puts in a bad word with Santa if we don't. Man, you need to get your ego out of the way so you can feel God guiding your hand with every move of every game, making you blunder if you don't pay for a Premium membership.  It isn't rocket science.

i heard you shouldnt calculate too much, you should think more strategically. i think its correct but you first have to get all the basic knowledge to do that.

It really depends. There are positions where you need to calculate a lot of variations, and stopping short may cost you the game, and there are positions where there aren't many tactics and you should mainly be thinking strategically.

As with everything in chess, depends on the position.

I heard that whatever anyone under 2000 ELO at Blitz heard doesn't matter.

I calculate until it irritates me.  Sometimes, it's ten seconds, sometimes it's ten minutes.  On a side note, I usually make an error on the ten seconds part, but in the ten minutes part, I find tactics I didn't know were possible in that position.

You mean I get to blame God if I lose? Cool.

It's your own damned fault if you forget to brush your teeth or forget to update your credit card info with chess.com. You can't blame God for that. Take some responsibility. If you want God to make you win, you'll be a better person and listen to what your mother tells you.

lol

even though i nearly fell for your provocation. That is a pretty cool statement.

Exactly.  The more you know the less you have to calculate.  It's also said that experts calculate more than any other group, anything above that works more off memory as they recall positions they've studied before. 

God is watching our games neutrally like an arbiter.