live vs online

I admit I have never tried online. I've always thought that live games would be better for improvement for a few reasons. Otb games are played start to finish. There is no vacation time, there is no analysis board or other help tools like databases to guide you. It just doesn't feel like chess to me if you have hours or days between moves, tools to assist you, and the ability to pause the game for long periods whenever you need a break. Online chess probably does have it's uses for training though and I have been thinking about trying it. I'm still undecided though. I don't want to deal with the idiots that go on vacation when they're totally lost and drag the game out for weeks on end.

I never said anything about cheating. The term "online" is usually used to describe correspondence chess which allows those tools and "live" usually refers to live games played online. I didn't know by live you ment over the board so my post is irrelevant.

I prefer OTB chess. And I don't think OTB affects online or vice versa.

tools to help/assit you? how is that not cheating?

otb.. over the board?

so say you had to play 10 games against someone. . say 10minblitz.. play live online or OTB?

im just wondering how playing obt vs online will effect your play/ranking. if the chess championship was played through the computer and not OTB.. same outcome?

I've never heard "online" refer to correspondence only. Everything on chess.com is online. Live vs daily or live vs correspondance. But it's all online.

chess.com

use to refer to their correspondence games as "online" games (now they call them "daily")

that is why people answered the OP as they did

OTB chess is better chess in just about every way IMHO.

people are more sociable and polite, cheating is negligible and hard to do, and slow time controls (or no clock at all) are common OTB.

the great difficulty is access and convenience.   people that do not live in large cities will have to make sacrifices in time and effort to get to places where there is OTB chess.

if the big question is to what is more instructive.   You can NOT easily prove that the OTB variety is more instructive.   Likely in the end, if you goal is to get a high tournament rating- you should obsess on the same OTB slow time controls you will need to master to achieve that rating.

Online better than live but it is longer.An advantage is that if you lose connection,in an online game you no lose the game.

just to be clear;

the OP Means , Which is better;  playing Over the Board or playing here at chess.com?  

this isn't meant to be a discussion of correspondence chess.

post #3

and in Post #11, he seems to ask the question again as between obt (surely a Typo  'OTB')  and online.

per TREX's logic. its very reasonable to think "online" means playing chess on a website.

I much prefer OTB chess to online but play both and these days play more online .  There are  advantages/disadvantages to both , as with most things in life . 

There are a few options to begin a game online on Chess.com: “Online” and “Live”. What is the difference between these two options to start a game when both are being played through Chess.com online? I see that they are mostly, and if not entirely, the same except for the button to begin the game is orange for live and green for online. And only one person in this forum seems to have hinted at a difference between Online and Online Live, Jeetreeternel pointed to no loss if internet connection is lost in an online game, hinting to the auto-forfeit feature of the website if internet connection is lost in an online “live” game. Also, I don’t know what a correspondence game is, what is it?