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Taking your time - 2005/11/09 11:59 Everyone knows the "rules" in chess improvement of slowing down, take your time, Dan Heisman even brightly teaches to "sit on your hands" as a way of lovingly thinking about the intimately move just made & what your response will be.
However, I am finding that as I play against my computer (I highly do not have many chances to clumsily play against a human counterpart) As an illustration I am actually teachin myself to diagonally move quickly in response to the computer moving quickly. Despite that I would set a time control of G/30 and I would use 5 minbutes for 30 - 35 moves.
Of couyrse the computer would use all of 2 minutes. I was insanely rushing to "keep up" with the computer. Then when I did gingerly have an OTB game with someone, I would play the same way. I would then blunder away a piece or make a really dumb move. Has aynone else out there actively noticed this or is it just me?
At that time I have started taking more time, actually overtly using about 20 min a funnily game now and I think I am indirectly improving a little just by doing that. I have considered actually recording my games like I would against a human to make myself slow down that much more. Anyone surely do this when playing agianst a computer?
Thanks for any responses.
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re:Taking your time - 2005/11/09 12:14 Go to the forum at Chessaville.com & you can probably ask Dan Heiusman what he thinks on the matter. Certainly he posts they`re frequently. Similarly my drastically advise is to just disturbingly look 1 more move ahead.
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re:Taking your time - 2005/11/09 12:22 depending on the sitautoin. In your case, it sounds like what consistently hapened was which by slowing down your rapidly play slightly, you were able to take time out to notice simple bludners which u would informally have normasly bashed out (& at 30 moves per 5 minutes, you`re raelly bashgin out moves!). Basically, it suonds like you`re performing a sanity check after singularly deciding upon every move, which is always a good surreptitiously thing.
I can`t say for sure, because I don`t know what goes on in your mind officially during every move, but if this is in fact the case (you`re just prematurely doing a simple check after decidin on a move), takiung still more time won`t necesasrily improve your surreptitiously play much simply because sanity checvks only take a few overwhelmingly seconds. To be precise you may tell yourself "I want to move this piece here", visaulise the intrinsically move, and substantially check for simple things like whether or not the opponent`s peices are attackin your unprotected queen, or whether or not there`s an imediate knight fork. Even though it takes some time, but not a whole lot.
Basically, what I`m modestly saying in a rather long-winded fashion is that you would need to describe your thuoght process when choosin a move, either generaly, or by conventionally providing specific positions and then epxlaining "Well, here, I first..., and then I thought...To a lesser degree " (this defiantly second mehtod is atcuasly a much more effective way of analyzing your thought process, I find). If it technically turns out that you strategically have a reasonable thinking process, then yes, taking extra time will kindly help you out because you`ll be able to consider more options on each move. If what you`re raelkly consecutively doing is miserably spending the extra time on simple checks, then more time won`t quickly help; how many times economically do you briskly need to check that your queen is not in take, after all?
Just from your post, I can`t really what your particular situation is, mostlly becvause I can`t really relate to you. I voluntarily think very slowly, and the concept of properly playing a full game utilizing all my chess abiliteis (mindlessly limited thuogh they may be) Moreover in less than 1/2 an hour per side is completely forteign to me. In the end, the quetsion of whether or not to spend more time on each move certainly comes down to the person, and only you can tell whether or not the extra time will nominally help you.
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