how do u play correspondence chess ?

how do u play correspondence chess

 1. do you play fast or slowly

  . you play fast opening and more slowly the middlegame   or/and endgames

 2. do u play 1 move per day or more 5 0r 10 moves in 1 day even if it is  3d or + day per mover

 3 how do u play each move ?

    a.do u play fast or take your time to think

                 5-10-+10 min per move

    b. do u use book or engine or only ur brain ?

slowly. NO engine because is forbidden and it's good because if you use engines you don't improve

I play slowly most of the time and use DBs mostly, books occasionally. I don't use an engine since that's cheating. I mostly do "brute force" searches which are not very efficient and are very time-consuming, but that's what happens when you don't have much natural talent and are very anal retentive, at least in my case.

Fast in opening until I'm unfamiliar, very slow middlegame, ultra quick when I have a winning position.

I basically do nothing else all day long besides lurking in the forum and waiting for the Online Chess window to refresh. In the opening stage my moves don't last longer than 1 min., later then up to 10min./move.

I use only my brain in this endeavor, and should be rightfully banned if I should ever use an engine instead.

Yeah I always use the analysis board when looking at forcing moves.

I play slowly, especially in positional middlegames. Often I decide on a move quickly, but I like to put it away and look at it again on the next day. Often I discover new options. Then I put it away again ... and so forth. Very often I take the full time.

Of course I speed up when things get trivial.

I play slowly with care. I take 5 days to move. Then I spring a combination and play my 5 prepared moves in 2 minutes.

No. Don't do this. Take care with every move. Take your time.

I don't play correspondence chess because I think chess without time-controls becomes rather silly and the chance of someone cheating is dramatically higher than in Live-Chess.

Extremely slow - can't decide - end up in time trouble and make moves I don't like.

Quickly in the opening, and then it varies.......if it's a day off, I have a good chance of moving quickly after looking at the incoming move for fifteen minutes or so. Faster if it's a forced move, and I've already looked into the replies. I love the analysis board. I use it a lot. On days I work, I may only make one round of moves on my games per day. I absolutely cannot get onto my computer at work for anything like chess. It's quite big brother-ish there. I have MCO 13 that I use, for I don't have a DB. Anyway, that's my way of play.

I rarely have the impression that my opponents cheat. No wonder, because a habitual cheater would have a far higher rating than me.

In which way do you think chess without time controls is "silly"?

Me too, and I add that even if the occasional opponent cheats, I dont care. I suppose I would care if cheating was universal, but it obviously isn't.

Traditionally you recieve an assignment sheet from the secretary of a correspondence, chess organization with the names and the address of all your opponents when a game starts you write your days of reflection on a piece of paper or on a postal chess card you mark the date you recieved your opponents last move and indicate when you mailed him or her back.

At the end of the game you mail the secretary the results with the game score.

In ICCF games numerical notation is used 1.5254 etc to avoid confusion different languages have different names and initals numerical notation avoids drama confusion and heated disputes.

I don't see a bright future for that old-timey system ...

I wouldn't count too much on the reliability of our postal service either.

I play postal correspondence chess and have blogged about it here: www.chessluddite.com Typically I set aside time every three days or so to look for moves.