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The big difference beween Chess.com and real chess

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IMKeto
55NORTH wrote:

Chess.com is the only chess I can get. It's not perfect but it is very good. I find I get conditioned by looking at all the facilities in chess.com where I just make auto responses and seem to lose the capacity to think. This happens in games and I find myself down in a game. Then I start to think and usually retrieve the situation to a degree and give a better game or sometimes win. Unless I'm bored I stay away from live chess and play daily stuff. I've started entering matches and tournaments and it gives a better discipline.

Set up your games on a real board and pieces.

Lippy-Lion
IMBacon wrote:

I only play correspondence chess as I want duplicate OTB play as closely as possible.

I play daily too, but do not feel it duplicates OTB play. For example some of the complicated stuff that I play in daily would not survive OTB because it walks a narrow line, and OTB would not be able to calculate far enough to steer a clear passage through the complications.

              Have tried playing 30 minute games etc online, the trouble is  that without the opponent sitting opposite I do not get that adrenaline from being in a battle, so just become bored and mind wanders.

  Perhaps the best way to simulate otb would be to play daily, always setting position up on a real board and making decision without touching any of the pieces.  Might try that out in a tounament

IMKeto
Nc3always wrote:
IMBacon wrote:

I only play correspondence chess as I want duplicate OTB play as closely as possible.

I play daily too, but do not feel it duplicates OTB play. For example some of the complicated stuff that I play in daily would not survive OTB because it walks a narrow line, and OTB would not be able to calculate far enough to steer a clear passage through the complications.

              Have tried playing 30 minute games etc online, the trouble is  that without the opponent sitting opposite I do not get that adrenaline from being in a battle, so just become bored and mind wanders.

  Perhaps the best way to simulate otb would be to play daily, always setting position up on a real board and making decision without touching any of the pieces.  Might try that out in a tounament

Thats why i said: "as closely as possible"

Im like you.  Online chess doesnt have the opponent sitting across from me, and honestly...for me...its like playing an engine.  It bores me to tears.  I get nothing out of it.

SeniorPatzer
Nc3always wrote:
IMBacon wrote:

I only play correspondence chess as I want duplicate OTB play as closely as possible.

I play daily too, but do not feel it duplicates OTB play. For example some of the complicated stuff that I play in daily would not survive OTB because it walks a narrow line, and OTB would not be able to calculate far enough to steer a clear passage through the complications.

              Have tried playing 30 minute games etc online, the trouble is  that without the opponent sitting opposite I do not get that adrenaline from being in a battle, so just become bored and mind wanders.

  Perhaps the best way to simulate otb would be to play daily, always setting position up on a real board and making decision without touching any of the pieces.  Might try that out in a tounament

 

I'm more or less the same.

 

But in my addiction phase to 10/0 Blitz here on chess.com, I know my adrenaline and heart was pumping faster near the end of games.