I am horrible at online rapid chess

@Eladar

I play one minute bullet on Lichess, I lose a lot on time but I usually have much better positions when the clock drops.

@congruent said
Try the following :-
* Chess tactics practice
* visualization training

I would bet that most of us here (me included) would struggle in visualization.

For example without sight of board, what is the colour of the following squares

E6, F2, G1

Without sight of the board, can the Knight on G1 get to F5? In two or three moves at most.

Knight's Tour.

Sometimes I move quickly and blunder, then sit there waiting for the hammer to fall, but my opponent completely misses it.

That's almost worse, because I get this sense of cosmic absurdity and wonder why I am going through the motions.

I love this quotation.

You need to come on down to the sub-1300s.

Our whole chess experience is one, constant cosmic absurdity. ^^

Anyway, I agree that playing online is a completely different cat. It could be that the difference in spatial relationships between the board and pieces affect us in different ways.

When I met a friend who also almost plays exclusively online chess to play OTB some 6, 7 years ago, I remember him just freezing for a moment, early in the game, when things were about to get a little complicated, and remarking...

It's so weird seeing this on a board...

And we both really shared a good laugh.

It feels rather weird that, ultimately, it is now stranger for many millions of chess players to see the game unfold on a board.

If you are losing and blundering heavily i.e. leaving pieces en prise, simple blunders then I recommend withdrawing from rapid chess for a while till you have regrouped. Nothing worse than if you're say a 2000 player, your current rating is 1700 or 1600 and you carry on playing getting hammered to 1300-1500. Your opponents are going to be like circling sharks.

@Philokalia

playing online is a completely different cat.


Phycology is for me the difference ( no pressure )

Decent post btw

@hells-caretaker said
@Philokalia

playing online is a completely different cat.


Phycology is for me the difference ( no pressure )

Decent post btw

By phycology you meant psychology?

@deepthought said
By phycology you meant psychology?

Take that to Russ. I didn't design this 'Speelcheekerr'ee

@Paul-Leggett
I can vouch for your redhotpawn games for sure because I've been clobbered a couple of times by you.

@rickgarel said
@Paul-Leggett
I can vouch for your redhotpawn games for sure because I've been clobbered a couple of times by you.

Hi all- Rick is being kind because he collected some easy points off me in a game/15 team match on chess.com!

I've been looking very thoroughly over my games, to compare and contrast my chess.com and RHP games. Generally speaking, I get better positions overall on chess.com compared to RHP, but I also drop far more pieces in one-move blunders.

I think I am getting very good positions, then get comfortable and lazy, and then receive a lesson on how lazy is not tolerated in the game.

I am going to review my Rowson books to fix it. His books have been very helpful in the past for getting my head straight.

@hells-caretaker said
Take that to Russ. I didn't design this 'Speelcheekerr'ee

The spell checking happens on your device, it's not something Russ can influence. I was guessing that you meant psychology, but phycology looked like a real word, so I wondered if you meant something else. In the meantime I looked it up on Lexico and it gives the definition of phycology as: "The branch of botany concerned with seaweeds and other algae.".

@paul-leggett said
Hi all- Rick is being kind because he collected some easy points off me in a game/15 team match on chess.com!

I've been looking very thoroughly over my games, to compare and contrast my chess.com and RHP games. Generally speaking, I get better positions overall on chess.com compared to RHP, but I also drop far more pieces in one-move blunders.

I think I am getting ...[text shortened]... Rowson books to fix it. His books have been very helpful in the past for getting my head straight.

Fair enough. Perhaps then a blunder check then before you move in your rapid games?

@congruent said
Fair enough. Perhaps then a blunder check then before you move in your rapid games?

Yeah, I need to apply the old Greenpawn64 Post It note mantra of "Check all checks, and look for loose pieces".

It's easy to apply in this format, because I am only making one move. In OTB or online rapid play, I need to remember to do it every single move- the one time I forget can be the one move that loses for me.

@deepthought said
The spell checking happens on your device, it's not something Russ can influence. I was guessing that you meant psychology, but phycology looked like a real word, so I wondered if you meant something else. In the meantime I looked it up on Lexico and it gives the definition of phycology as: "The branch of botany concerned with seaweeds and other algae.".

I think he was saying that my calculating or... "chess algae-bra"... needs work.