Okay, so I'm new here and I have to say it is hurting my soul. I'm not bad at chess. Playing in real life with others on an actual board I have a FIDE score of about 1550. But as soon as I started playing online, I sucked. I couldn't think, I had to resign games and the ones I played through I lost. I have a three digit score in Blitz and a dangerously low one in the other catagories. Any advice? I shouldn't suck this much.
Probably just because you're new. In real life, I'm also better (as far as I can tell, though I don't even record my games on paper). I always play without time controls OTB, maybe it's because of that. Or it's simply about actually seeing your opponent and actually being there, moving the pieces with your hands, etc.
Online chess takes a while to get used to.
Okay, so I'm new here and I have to say it is hurting my soul. I'm not bad at chess. Playing in real life with others on an actual board I have a FIDE score of about 1550. But as soon as I started playing online, I sucked. I couldn't think, I had to resign games and the ones I played through I lost. I have a three digit score in Blitz and a dangerously low one in the other catagories. Any advice? I shouldn't suck this much.