I am the opposite I am no good in Blitz for various reasons the main one being I don't normally think very fast. I am much better in turn based, on average I spend about 8 minutes on one move.

I am much better at watching Chess than playing.  Standing outside of a game, I see things I wouldn't notice otherwise.  I've seen so many wonderful mating combinations missed by the players that I know I'd have missed in their shoes.  When I play, I simply don't have the same perspective.  I'm not relaxed, I don't think as clearly, and I blunder horribly.  I'm no better in turn-based or Live.  If I am able to relax and stop thinking too much, I play better.

It took me 54 years to discover that I should have been playing correspondence chess all along. I completely ignored turn-based chess, until earlier this year when I tried it here on Chess.com. (BTW, where did "turn-based" come from? What exactly does it mean? All chess is based on taking "turns," so . . . ?) I consider turn-based chess to simply be modern correspondence chess, and I much more enjoy spending an hour analyzing a difficult position with a manual analysis board, than spending an hour playing OTB, which seems like skittles to me now. (I don't give a thought to Blitz.)

For those of you having trouble keeping your turn-based plans in mind, you need to get a chess database program that you can use as a manual (i.e., no chess engine) analysis board. One that saves all the lines you've explored and lets you annotate them, and promote one line over another. (ExaChess is great for this if you run Mac; maybe Chessbase does this for PC people, I dunno.)

I'm the opposite. I do fine in turn based Chess but I do quite horribly in Blitz Chess. I have the time to think about the possible consequences of my moves whereas Blitz just doesn't give me that opportunity.

Put me on the "prefers slow" list. I sort of panic at blitz and try and make my first 10 moves in the blink of an eye. I'm rarely in time trouble as I usually blunder the game with plenty of time to spare. Turn-based chess is right up my alley. I love to ponder variations without the tick of a clock.

Brian 

People who are good at blitz have often good pattern recognition ability. In blitz we mainly use long term memory. In longer games and also in turn based chess we use our beside long term memory also a lot of our working memory.

I have the same problem when I play many games at the same time. At a certain point it's really needed to use the Notes Tab. Otherwise I forget my thoughts, plans and calculations in the game.

 

There is good reason for this and it is all psychological. Standard chess gives you more time to think, but it also allows more time for self doubt to creep into our consciousness. I'm not a psychologist but put simply as we age we learn that failure is linked to negativity. When you have time to think you slowly begin to worry about failure which in turn clouds your positive thought process.

 

Another excellent example besides chess is speed golf. Yes, there is such a thing. (http://www.speedgolfinternational.com/home.htm). It has been noticed that the over all average of speed golf scores are lower than the same players over all average during standard golf play.

 

What basically is happening in both speed chess and speed golf is that ones instincts take over, and even more importantly, there is no time to achieve self doubt. It may actually be better to focus on the part of self doubt then instincts as it is this area that requires more control. Once you realize it is the fear of losing that is entering your mind, and you begin to learn to control it you should find yourself achieving better results in standard OTB play.  

I to make quick moves in turn based and seem to be better in blitz. I am currently trying to cut down the concurrent games so when I have 20mins spare I can look at only a few moves. Hopefully the rating improvement will follow. I also can get a bit tangled in the middle game which seems less of an issue in blitz.

Reducing the number of "the worst possible blunder" mistakes would go a long way. Reducing opening problems also makes for an easier time. In game one, 6...e5 is one alternative. Then Black can decide to place the knight on c6, d7, or a6 according to White's response. At move 7...Nb8 is better than Ne5 because the exchange of knights on e5 thematically favors White. Notice if the bishop on e2 were on g2, Na4 would be possible. In game two, 34...f3+ is correct. Often, after a blitz game the loser wants to find improvements, but if they look good, the winner says, "You analyze blitz?"

yeah zug i tried taking notes but that's kind of a hassle especially when i forget which games i wrote the notes for, basically i've found a way around it, i just sit and look at the game for a minute and i repeat the name of my opponent a good couple times in my head and that seems to be working out pretty well....so far

I'm the exact opposite! Solid and consistent at turn based OTB and correspondance. As soon as the clock is wound up on blitz I spend so much time in the middle game calculating and double checking that I always end up in time trouble trying to force something to happen before I lose on time! I think I'm just a chess purist!

I have only recently started trying to improve a little bit at chess. 

I really enjoy blitz but don't find it very useful as a learning tool.  Whereas studying turned based games is really helping me learn.  

PS - My turned base rating has improved a little recently now that I have stopped treating Turned based like blitz.   

 

 

erik are you sure you dont also run my previous site, the webmaster there was also the same??

or is this a webmasters disease??

yes, it`s so easy to make blunders, I think I carry over between games sometimes, kinda playing the wrong game !

notes can be helpful, but I agree with taxman22420 that mood, focus and aggression vary a lot between sessions.

still onward and upward. (well somewhat downward at the moment haha) 

taxman22420, you might try making notes to yourself during the game in the private notes area (created just for that purpose).  A couple of words will do the trick nicely...no more forgetting of plans.

Regards, Zug

It happens when the hand is faster than brain. You have a plan but you forget your opponent has his own plan., is an emotional problem.

Both very nice games indeed though, minus the blunder.

It's the opposite for me--I'm pathetic at blitz, for two reasons. One is simple time pressure: I see that red clock ticking away and massive portions of my forebrain freeze up. The second reason is, ironically, the exact opposite condition: when I relax and focus, I get lost in thought. I'll get so fascinated by the possibilities that I'll literally zone out, snapping to only after minutes have mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps this will change with more games under my belt, but I'll admit it's frustrating. 

i have the same problem with turn based chess...and my strategic mood changes from day to day or sometimes hour to hour...from passive to aggressive, and back and forth,, i forget what my plans were for the game  and make dumb moves at critical points in games that i had going for me