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Here are a few groups that are dedicated to longer time controls:
World Standard Time Control Chess Club
Go check them out.
PHudson wrote:
Here are a few groups that are dedicated to longer time controls:
World Standard Time Control Chess Club
Slow Chess League
Slow LIVE Chess Assoc.
Go check them out.
Oh wow I didn't know that! You just made my day. Are you a member of any of those? If so which would you recommend?
I'm not a member of any groups. The smallest of the three has over 2,500 members though, so it shouldn't be too hard to find a game!
@xman
You can schedule a game with me if you'd like.
I joined the world standard club listed above. All I had to do was post a note of what game I wanted then put a challenge out and had a 90/30 game going within 5 minutes. I've waited longer than that trying to get a 30 min game lol. It was so nice having time to calculate, like REALLY calculate. But now my head hurts😞
I really don't have a solution to this, but I guess that's why I'm posting it on the forums.
I'm a player who likes to think through his moves. Even before I got serious into chess, my friends still all knew I was a slow chess player. Yes I'm better at chess now, and yes I have more practice, but I am very calculating player, and i like to calculate every variation. 30 minutes simply doesn't give me time to do that. I know that most people aren't interesting in 60 or 90 minute games, but surely there are some. How do I find these people and set it up?
To me, chess games at even my level require enough thought that your opponent doesn't even need to be present while you're thinking. I'm just very tired of loosing "standard" games on time. If I try to play as fast as everyone else I play really, really crappy moves, and almost every game I play ends with me having to make quick moves alla blitz.
I hate that chess turns into this while my opponent is happy with 15 or 20 minutes on his clock. I've tried to keep my time at the same as my opponents, but it feels like I'm playing blitz. And I've played blitz, so I know what it feels like. Playing chess as fast as other people play standard feels like blitz. I mean goodness, my standard rating is 1200 while my blitz is 700. Obviously I have trouble making fast moves.
I mean, I've missed king + rook and king + queen endgames in standard because I draw on time or stalemate, because I don't have any time left on the clock to think. This is supposed to be standard chess my friends! I hear stories about grandmasters taking 6 hours to think through a sacrifice, and I wish I could play games like that.
I know about corrospondence, and I haven't tried it yet, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. I think my ideal world (I know this is impossible, but maybe it gives people ideas) would be "Let's play 30 minutes chess". "Hmmm, this is an interesting position, let me get back to you tomorrow."
One time I played a game and got to this position:
My clock was on 25 minutes and i spent 20 minutes on this move. That turned out to not be enough time, and I decided to go with it since I would regret missing it more than losing because it went wrong. Obviously it didn't work, but I sure wish I had time to calculate that before sacrificing my rook (I might have actually just blundered my rook, that game was a while ago and I don't remember.)
I know I'm not the best player and I would miss lots of things even with infinite time, but this is really frustrating. I'm thinking of quitting chess because of this. When I do tactics puzzles, they take me an average of 3 to 5 minutes. I'm very accurate with them, and they are very high level, but I take a while. I have a large chess memory and I like to take the time to fill up that whole memory with variations before making my next series of moves. I solve roughly 2/3 of the daily puzzles- but they take me 15 minutes! So when a daily puzzle like situation comes up in a normal game, you bet I can solve it, but I don't have 15 minutes.
Maybe this will not be much more than a rant, but I wondered if other people had this problem and if they solved it. I really want to improve my chess, and if I don't have time to think about my moves I don't know how I can do that.