Do you want long time control games schedule problems?OTBSIM!

OTBSIM

The idea is to use the correspondence (online chess to SIMULATE) an Long timed game ("OTB like") without schedule issues.

We need to play against trustworthy people that do agree to not cheat, not use database (as in OTB games DB is not used and to write down his reflexion time for each move in the chat window).So, if the game was agreed to be a 2 hour per player game, the players will measure their reflexion time and KEEP in the scheduled clock time.Counting from 5 to 5 seconds needs JUST a table clock.

I did almost 20 games in this way and it was the most instructional experience I had in chess.com so far.

Here I am posting the general idea to discuss.If you wanna play this, enter this team.When we have 8 players in a rating range we will begin the first "OTBSIM tournment" ever tournment:   http://www.chess.com/groups/home/otb-sim-team

Does the link work? It did not work for me.

Yes the link works for me.

These SiM games are really useful to replicate OTB games. I have played about 15 games in this format, many with UP, and they have been the most useful games I have played on here.

Mostly with the post game analysis, one game in this has the value of lot of games in other formats.Also because it is very difficult to do a post morten with the opponent after 3 hours of a live game.

With this I can play 1 good game each 3-4 days.Without, less than 1 time per month I would find how to play a long straight live game.

I just sent a request to join the said group...

You are there and, after reading the rules, if you like, we could begin a game today, for you to grasp the "rules" and help to improve them.

What is JBHMD?

It's a novel approach, but I have the ultimate solution for chess.com but we need thusands of players wnatng to play standard time control chess.

ICC/Team4545League/STC bunch are responsible for the method of player negotiations to arrange times to play between players of different time zones. This is a stone-age approach and a nuisance to players, and a heck of a lot of paperwork for the admins. If we had 10K people wanting to play standard, the administration of pairings and such would collapse from sheer volume alone.

Automated events are the way to go. Regular monthly tournaments 7 days a week at set starting times across the globe. If you don't show up, you don't play. A bot recognizes you are online and pairs you. I started a skeleton version of this with my world standard time control group. It requried some admin work as people had to add oponents as friends and some would come late. We just changed it to post a seek when you want to play and advertise on group wall if you so choose. I don't do any admin work in there except my daily invites.  A bot can take over and chess.com will be the internet leader  for standard time controls, if they want it, I'm showing the path.

It sounds like a really good set up aww rats. The OTB sim we are looking at here is of course a much much smaller scale sort of set up, however it does have the advantage over long live games in that not everyone can find 2-4 hours to play live in one sitting. I suspect that this is an issue for many many people, for people with kids and/or work committments for example.

Quality groups like yours and Heisman's are good, but I would rarely be able to play such a game in one sitting in live. This is why I left both groups because it wasn't going to be functional for me.

The advantage of the OTB sim games beging played on the online setting, but played like a real OTB game (real slow time controls, no database or book use, no analyse function, of course no computer assistance) is that you can pause games and play in two or three sittings. This ensures you can play in slow games even if you can't find a full four hours to play in one go and the no db, analyse idea is that this better replicates geniune OTB play over the online function here, for those (like me) interested in training for genuine OTB play.

It would be great if chess.com had this OTB sim function - really just a timer and pause button on online, but that doesn't exist. Instead though, it is not that much of a bother to note your time and write it in the chat window, then make your move, which is what we do.

OK, here is a blog post I have made explaining a bit more about them and why I play OTB Sim games if you are interested:

http://www.chess.com/blog/Benedictine/otb-sim-games---what-they-are-and-why-i-play-them

Thanks.