OTB, because a.) I become friends with the people I play at tournaments and it's a great community!
b.) I have to play intensely so I play better, and I have an adrenaline rush
OTB and Live Chess. Which one do you prefer?
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The guy who said correspondence chess is "real" chess should check out this review of Hans Berliner's (correspondence player) book by Jeremy Silman. http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_system_world_champ_appr.html
No offence (I mean it) but in my opinion chess with time controls is where the real brilliance of both the players and the game is!
I read this thread with interest and was considering the difference between 2d and 3d chess and the brain activity involved. I play over the board chess sometimes but I am not as good as I am online even though I actually tend to spend more time analyzing positions in real life. So I decided to set my online chess.com board to 3d to see if it made a difference. It was immediately much harder to think about the board. I'm going to keep it that way for a while to see if I adapt and how many blunders I make in the interim :)
Schachgeek wrote:
davegski wrote:
The guy who said correspondence chess is "real" chess should check out this review of Hans Berliner's (correspondence player) book by Jeremy Silman. http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_system_world_champ_appr.html
No offence (I mean it) but in my opinion chess with time controls is where the real brilliance of both the players and the game is!
Interesting link, but OTB players especially some of the titled players here on chess.com have an ego so big they have to drive convertibles with the top down and Silman's bias shines through the entire article.
If it were possible to arrange such a match, the world correspondence champion would have an advantage over any OTB world champ you could name...if the games were played at correspondence chess time controls/rules.
However, an OTB match between the world correspondence champ and the OTB world champ would likely be to the OTB champ's favor and in fact the correspondence player would frequently find him/herself in time trouble.
Not to diminish the brilliance of OTB players, but remember their "brilliance" can in some cases be superficial as their opponents do not have time to find the true best move at OTB tournament time controls.
Correspondence players have the time.
What are you talking about? CC champs playing OTB champs at CC time control means they both have plenty of time in which the player that has a better understanding of chess and who has greater experiance in researching the game in general will win.
In both these catagories OTB champs would easily outshine the CC champs. Do you realize that after the 2300 level to get better is as much a reseach project as it is book study? In fact all the top 10 OTB players do is research and study of positions -- you've got to be kidding me, they're phenominal at reserach and understanding.
CC camps, although very strong players whose skill I certainly respect, would be crushed by OTB champs in CC time controls -- what a silly comparison.
I find that when I play OTB now I have to stand up to get a over head view of the board.
I have the same problem as kyleevon. I tend to stay as high as possible in order to see the board and I often stand up during my opponent's time (in OTB games).
Otb fo sure