Internechenza

Hello! I'm not very new to the game but I'm new to the site and I've discovered that when I play in front of a board, I play pretty well, but when I play in front of my computer screen, I totally forget what I'm doing and I can't focus. Any long tome members have any advice or stories that can help all of us noobs?

If you are playing long time controls you could always just set up the game on a physical board! Not very practical if you are playing correspondence, but I understand that is how they did it in the old days .

Haha. This is happened to me on a MonRui. I would make the moves on the board, but I end up PLAYING THE GAME on the screen, you know? And it doesn't work too well. So I think even if I did have a board next to me, my attention would be on the screen anyway. Anything else?

Ummm...You'll get used to it?

Would be nice if this was the only problem with my chess :)

First of all, the MonRoi is a move-recording device, last time I checked.  Most TDs get mighty suspicious if you're staring into your recorder device a whole lot more  than the actual board!

Why in the world would you prefer to stare at a tiny pocket-device screen as opposed to an actual chess board? (I hear the display resolution of those new fangled "reality boards" is infinity x infinity)

Do you like running up escalators going the other way as well?

Yes!!! I love doing that! Haha. But it's not that I stare at the mon rui the whole time, it's that I usually remember the picture on the screen instead of the memtal picture of the board. No matter what I'm staring at.