Do you remember your plan when playing turn based?

Do you remember your plan when playing turn based?

No. I write notes.

Mostly.. notes help a lot

My life hasn't been the same since I learned to copy and paste the analysis into my notes.  Not necessarily better, mind you, just not the same...

Bah. Cutting and pasting analysis into notes? That is for sissies. Real men write out their own notes. With bonus jokes.

if u don't,you can write them down either on the note screen or on a piece of paper at home,but the best thing is to remember everything that crossed ur mind:)

My notes are on the note screen and are often like this:

b4, good move, idea of outpost. Looks =ish. must5 be =ish. if c5xb4 then b3xb4.

No.

what plan?

OK. things like this:

him going to b4 is like Monica Lewinsky becoming a Nun.

if I go to e7 my bishop is is toast and my kingside is a muffin and fries.

I know it cost me at least one game - because I transposed moves from a half forgotten plan in a disastrous way.

The main problem is when you multiple games going on at the same time. On the positive side...multiple games forces you to think and focus more.

I read that Keres at one time had 150 correspondence games going  simultaneouly

Yes, most of the time. After I've left a game and come back it's obvious to me what plan I had laid out the last time.

I don't even need notes for that, it's all written in the position of my pieces.

Clearly you are a better player than I am. I refer to my notes extensively.

lol, clearly you're joking! 

My plans are not anything elaborate or based on hour-long analysis, they're going after simple positional advantages or how to force my opponent to trade queens. Simple stuff like that.

Maybe I have a better memory than you, but that's it.

My memory is attrocious and I am very slow to translate the pieces on the board into a meaningful story. There have been times where I've analyzed an illegal move for 10 seconds before realizing the impossibility of the position.

Blitz for me is a random movement exercise. 15/10 is my fastest time, and I prefer G/45 for "quick chess". On correspondence I will sometimes take 2-3 hours on a move. This is the only reason I am so high rated... I outwork my opponents.

So my notes are invaluable. I see something and don't want to rework the logic over and over. It is also valuable for after-the-game seeing why I made a choice. Sometimes a bad choice can be made for good rasons and good choices can be made for bad reasons. Ultimately, I want my OTB to improve and only being brutaly honest about one's shortcomings help to achieve this.

So, I love the notes. I just wish chess.com provided a better interface for writing them.

Yes but because it's a long game I tend to think about long term plans, not simple 2-moves plans.

I would happily trade my "astounding" memory for your high rating, Eric! 

(Because the latter shows! )

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