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What is the best "slow" chess to play to improve my game

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vanjr1425

I know I need to play slow chess to learn, rather than blitz. What is the best on this site? I currently am playing daily chess (1 day version) and that is nice as it allows life to happen. I only see a live chess option of a maximum of 60 minutes. Is that a better choice than daily? Some daily games can drag on.

 

If I ever played a local live tournament is there a standard time length of games?

 

I see some players who play many daily games at a time. That seems to be counterproductive to what I want to do (learn to play better). I am doing my max number of tactics every day as well as slowing reading easier chess books (currently "The Soviet Chess Primer" by Ivan Maizelis). Tia.

vanjr1425

I usually do run the computer analysis of my games and then slowly replay them to see what I missed. At my level it is usually a blatant blunder that I have already recognized. I also save the game go I can go back. Again at my level I am not sure what to look for on my own. I lack to knowledge to know what I should know to look for. 

vanjr1425

Thank you all for the suggestions. I am still not sure that self analysis is where I need to focus on until I read more. When I signed up for chess.com in October 2017 I really ONLY knew how to move the pieces (except this en passant thing-never even heard of that). I knew absolutely nothing else-words like fork, pin, etc had absolutely no meaning to me in terms of chess. I had no idea how to open a game. Even now reading the article linked in post 5 I must say I have no idea what in the world the author is talking about. 

hitthepin
15-10 is pretty good here. Usually it ends up being 20-40 min.
ezeldin1

I play G60 and learn a lot from those games.  There's time to really think through the position.

tygxc

Classical chess over the board is 90|30, but that is hard to play online.
15|10 is good and it is the FIDE rapid standard