playing daily games without moving the pieces around

Am trying this to try and improve my forward thinking skills, and improve my openings for OTB play. I felt I was not learning much by constantly moving the pieces around to try and find the best moves.

I found winning using complicated openings means nothing if you cannot reproduce it OTB, so am forcing myself not to move the pieces for daily games. I set the position up on a board and just look at it.

Naturally I play at a lower level doing this, but as my primary goal is to improve my OTB play I think it has some merit. Anyone else tried this?

I’ve also thought about this, and what I ended up deciding is to treat daily games more like study sessions, letting myself explore the positions in depth by moving pieces around. But, I only do this because I also usually have enough time to play a few 60-min games every week. If I didn’t have time for the shorter time controls, and only got to play using daily games, then I’d probably do what you’re suggesting and just look at the board. I’d also probably limit the amount of time I think about each move, to make it even more like OTB play. I guess there are different reasons a person might choose to play daily. It might be because they want a different kind of game, where playing and studying are closely connected. Or, they might be doing it because they don’t have a single block of time they can set aside for a long game, but otherwise want the play to be as much like OTB as possible.

Faulty logic to assume developing the habit will inherently lead to improvement. 
Actually could prove detrimental. An assumption is being made - one without evidence nor backed by trial and error. Everybody learns uniquely. A drastic measure - to be repeated when studying books?  Daily chess should not be played in a forced  manner. Perhaps study the position and select a move before automatically moving the pieces about - then blunder check in complicated   positions. 

I see another assumption being made - that people want Daily to be like OTB as much as possible. Why? How so? They are played very differently regarding the time element- why assume everyone wants them to be as similar as possible? Daily is very flexible- used as a study tool to pure entertainment as in Live play. 

I quited daily

 

lol i was so lazy