I think notes are a form of cheating in turn-based. Perhaps not cheating your opponent, since they may do the same, but cheating yourself. I mean, you should use your own memory at some point. Just my tiny opinion, of course.
Yes it isn't a good thing for a chess player ahve poor memory
Your opinion is like my wife is doing the groceries each week without a note and forget most of the stuff. Yeah she is cheating herself...
Your opinion is like my wife is doing the groceries each week without a note and forget most of the stuff. Yeah she is cheating herself...
I love taking notes. My main reason for playing turn-based is to get better at OTB chess. In OTB, you don't have this problem of forgetting your analysis between moves because the move is 3 days later, or a month later due to vacation. And if you have 30+ games going at the same time, it's not beneficial to OTB to try to re-do all the analysis, every time.
Also, forcing yourself into writing structured thoughts can help bring more structure to your OTB thinking process. So overall, I think it is great.
I love taking notes. My main reason for playing turn-based is to get better at OTB chess. In OTB, you don't have this problem of forgetting your analysis between moves because the move is 3 days later, or a month later due to vacation. And if you have 30+ games going at the same time, it's not beneficial to OTB to try to re-do all the analysis, every time.
Also, forcing yourself into writing structured thoughts can help bring more structure to your OTB thinking process. So overall, I think it is great.
THis is all true. Turn/correspondence chess also gives a player what I call "depth understanding" - you see why positions come to outcomes 20 and 30 moves in advance.
Notes help a lot when coming back to a position after a few days.
I love taking notes. My main reason for playing turn-based is to get better at OTB chess. In OTB, you don't have this problem of forgetting your analysis between moves because the move is 3 days later, or a month later due to vacation. And if you have 30+ games going at the same time, it's not beneficial to OTB to try to re-do all the analysis, every time.
Also, forcing yourself into writing structured thoughts can help bring more structure to your OTB thinking process. So overall, I think it is great.
Well said!
I "annotate" my games in progress using a DB to record them and all of my brilliant(sic) variations and alternative moves. And lots of blunders, mistakes and errors many of which I catch the next day when I review my priceless analysis. In fact since I write everything down sometimes I have trouble separating the wheat from the chaff, although I recently discoverred how to "fold" and "unfold" part or all of my analysis. Next I have to start forcing myself to start deleting a lot of the dud, bad and erroneous lines I come up with in my "Brute Force" searches instead of leaving them in for reasons even I don't understand.
I've never used notes. I'm kinda surprised that so many people do. When I get back to my games it's easy for me to see what I was doing based on the position of the pieces.
The problem might be that when you are writing your thought you got distracted and make a blunder
Do you remember your plan when playing turn based?
I don't even remember my plan when I buy green bananas!
Creme pie?
Nut bread?
Save for cereal?
Just as all rules are made to be broken, all plans are made to be changed!
Do you remember your plan when playing turn based?
sometimes i do sometimes i dont
I don't usually forget my main plan if i play my next move within a few hours of when i last looked at the board. I might forget some details and lesslikely "side lines" that i looked at. On the other hand, if more than a day or two passes between moves, i often have to reanalyze the entire position. Oddly, i rarely spend a lot of time on any move even in correspondence chess -- typically 2-3 minutes in the middlegame or in a complex endgame, and seconds in an opening that i am familiar with. I think that the most time i ever spent on one move was about 30 minutes in an especially complicated position that i thought might be a turnibg point.
I just replay the latest moves and work from there
If it's super-complicated, I may send myself a message, with the position.
Here's a rule of thumb that makes sense for correspondence:
If you are playing so many games that you don't remember the plan, you're playing too many games.
Here's a rule of thumb that makes sense for correspondence:
If you are playing so many games that you don't remember the plan, you're playing too many games.
I like that. I am sometimes guilty of having too many games going, so I have to use the notes. How do you say no to an admin in your group asking if you will join a team match, though? They need more players, so....... off we go! lol
Yes but because it's a long game I tend to think about long term plans, not simple 2-moves plans.
At some point, as TheBigDecline wrote, the plan is written in the position of your pieces.
I do not have many correspondance games at the same time, but I never needed to take notes. Basically there are two reasons you would like to do it :
-either there is an ultra-sharp tactical lines that you calculated 10 moves ahead. -> but then, you should anyways recalculate the whole thing at every move
-or you have a deep positional plan (start by putting my knight here, then push this pawn, etc) -> but if you found it once, you should find it back fairly easily when looking at the position.
The only reason I would want to take notes is when the position is a huge tactical mess, and I have to leave before having analyse it all - so that I don't havet recalculate the whole thing the next day.
I think notes are a form of cheating in turn-based. Perhaps not cheating your opponent, since they may do the same, but cheating yourself. I mean, you should use your own memory at some point. Just my tiny opinion, of course.