Nate Solon impresses me from his writings as a very intelligent experienced and most importantly practical chess coach. I would purchase a Nate Solon T shirt with his bearded face with the caption, Approach Chess Improvement Practically.
As someone who grew up playing exclusively OTB and have needed to approach online games as almost a foreign language that I'm not good at but HAVE TO speak, this post has given me a lot of comfort. It resonates with my recent experience playing a weekly correspondence game online with my trainig partner. I find it much easier to experiment with moves I normally wouldn't consider in OTB games. This has enhanced my imagination and made it very exciting to play online, and thus train for OTB. I'm lucky in that I live in a city where I'm never more than an Uber ride away from the tournament venue, but I completely understand where you're coming from in your recent posts about OTB chess.
Excellent post! I agree that both are very important, especially in the modern era where OTB players come in so primed with new ideas they've tried out online and gained confidence in. I think the engine era mixed with extreme play has caused opening play to be very very strong at all levels, but I think that's why I've had good success against youth players with a defensive style that is fine with going to endgames.
Also adding in that in my most recent OTB tourney I hit 2157, near my all time high, gaining 15 rating points... then got the flu for a week right after! :,(
This might be the worst post you have made. What has happened to you that you dislike otb so much. Otb chess is the only form of real chess where people are competitive and where you have to show you're real strength. This happens because of the different type of focus as you mentioned. The way you say that online rating is more reliable is just not true. Most people play chess online with music or a movie in the background and you have suboptimal focus. You perform consistently below level and the tilt that most people experience makes it worse. The people that do play better online is because of tricks, flagging or taking advantage of other people's tilt consistently. I believe online chess can benefit by giving you good practice for openings, tactics and endgames but you play it to let your otb chess benefit from it in the long run. I hope you see that too.
Sorry mate on the contrary, online i have a much higher peak but am way more infected by flow and tilt which is why i can't take online ratings serious. I would love to see a constructive argument from you about why you see it different instead of making a random assumption to attack me. Have a nice day.
In process of reading. But fast pass seems to be about the individual dayly life management. Which is fine, and has me curious as well. But then I wonder, is the chess on the board at many games scope having any different quality. Is anonymity, or rating withiout tournaments or non rated but recorded games having some effect. Is there more or less conservative versus exploratory or experiemental behavior.. less stake per game unit? I don't know. just generaly curious about population level effects.
Nate Solon impresses me from his writings as a very intelligent experienced and most importantly practical chess coach. I would purchase a Nate Solon T shirt with his bearded face with the caption, Approach Chess Improvement Practically.
As someone who grew up playing exclusively OTB and have needed to approach online games as almost a foreign language that I'm not good at but HAVE TO speak, this post has given me a lot of comfort. It resonates with my recent experience playing a weekly correspondence game online with my trainig partner. I find it much easier to experiment with moves I normally wouldn't consider in OTB games. This has enhanced my imagination and made it very exciting to play online, and thus train for OTB. I'm lucky in that I live in a city where I'm never more than an Uber ride away from the tournament venue, but I completely understand where you're coming from in your recent posts about OTB chess.
Excellent post! I agree that both are very important, especially in the modern era where OTB players come in so primed with new ideas they've tried out online and gained confidence in. I think the engine era mixed with extreme play has caused opening play to be very very strong at all levels, but I think that's why I've had good success against youth players with a defensive style that is fine with going to endgames.
Also adding in that in my most recent OTB tourney I hit 2157, near my all time high, gaining 15 rating points... then got the flu for a week right after! :,(
This might be the worst post you have made. What has happened to you that you dislike otb so much. Otb chess is the only form of real chess where people are competitive and where you have to show you're real strength. This happens because of the different type of focus as you mentioned. The way you say that online rating is more reliable is just not true. Most people play chess online with music or a movie in the background and you have suboptimal focus. You perform consistently below level and the tilt that most people experience makes it worse. The people that do play better online is because of tricks, flagging or taking advantage of other people's tilt consistently. I believe online chess can benefit by giving you good practice for openings, tactics and endgames but you play it to let your otb chess benefit from it in the long run. I hope you see that too.
Found the guy with the low online rating.
Sorry mate on the contrary, online i have a much higher peak but am way more infected by flow and tilt which is why i can't take online ratings serious. I would love to see a constructive argument from you about why you see it different instead of making a random assumption to attack me. Have a nice day.
In process of reading. But fast pass seems to be about the individual dayly life management. Which is fine, and has me curious as well. But then I wonder, is the chess on the board at many games scope having any different quality. Is anonymity, or rating withiout tournaments or non rated but recorded games having some effect. Is there more or less conservative versus exploratory or experiemental behavior.. less stake per game unit? I don't know. just generaly curious about population level effects.