It is good to improve, but 60 min is also very good because it gives you a more otb feel. Really anything 30 min and up and then online 3 day are the best to improve. But just like sports, you do not want to just train in a single way, mixing it up can help also. Just avoid only playing blitz haha
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what doesnt otb chess do?
getting a coach never will hurt ones chess haha
Correspondence chess won't improve your chess ability at all (or by very much anyhow). My understanding is that a healthy diet of tactics, long time controls games (especially over the board), and blitz will do far more for your chess than any other sort of chess. And a coach of course helps!
clunney wrote:
Correspondence chess won't improve your chess ability at all (or by very much anyhow). My understanding is that a healthy diet of tactics, long time controls games (especially over the board), and blitz will do far more for your chess than any other sort of chess. And a coach of course helps!
eh I agree you need all of them, but online defintitly helps if you want it to. Studying the game explorer to learn opening deeper, using your full time, using the analysis board. I think to improve in a well rounded way you need all of them
and i do not think most people would agree that blitz will do more than anything else for your chess, it is mostly a reflection of your ability
That’s sort of what I did. I went about 6 months playing mostly online chess. It definitely improved my ability to find good moves and play better chess, but it killed my time discipline. My first few games back to playing at 30 minute time control I would spend 10 minutes on just the first 8 moves! Most of my losses were games where I blundered away a superior position due to time pressure. So try to play at least a few games a week at standard time control so you don’t completely forget how to handle the clock.
clunney wrote:
Correspondence chess won't improve your chess ability at all (or by very much anyhow). My understanding is that a healthy diet of tactics, long time controls games (especially over the board), and blitz will do far more for your chess than any other sort of chess. And a coach of course helps!
Well, if you play like blitz I agree with you, but if you play it seriosly it can help you improve.
qrayons wrote:
That’s sort of what I did. I went about 6 months playing mostly online chess. It definitely improved my ability to find good moves and play better chess, but it killed my time discipline. My first few games back to playing at 30 minute time control I would spend 10 minutes on just the first 8 moves! Most of my losses were games where I blundered away a superior position due to time pressure. So try to play at least a few games a week at standard time control so you don’t completely forget how to handle the clock.
I spend too much time in the first moves, too. But I think that's more a problem of lack of opening knowledge. In rapid and blitz chess opening are more important, because you can spend less time thinking. In standard, howewer, there isn't this problem
I had a thought and please prove me wrong if this is not true.
I feel, especially as a beginner it's a really good thing to play only online chess, 3 days a mvoe or so and then maybe 10 games at the same time. Because you can spend a lot of time studying each move and many of them specially in the opening happen quite often.
In 60 min chess you have less time and might make more mistakes..
Maybe it's good to do only 3 day turn based chess for 6 months and then step into the "faster" games?
what you guys think?