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No, in my experience it forms bad habits such as being severely prone to going for one turn attacks. One turn attacks may be the most common mistake among chess
by 10xDev 4y ago
No, in my experience it forms bad habits such as being severely prone to going for one turn attacks. One turn attacks may be the most common mistake among chess players. Anyone who has learnt to calculate deeper and look for nuances within a position will crush someone who only knows to go for time pressure.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoThis is true. But the comment above is true as well. It depends on who you are and where you are at. I have certainly developed a habit for those one-turn attacks you describe. But going from short games back to slow chess and puzzles has been nice because I learned to manage how to think under that pressure. I’m now learning how to play tennis (another cliché gentleman’s game, I know). What I’m discovering is that it is very similar - there is the simple repetitive and purely textbook aspect of hitting the ball at just the right angle to make it go where you want. And then there is the energy management under time and pressure. So you sort of have to straddle this tension between these two and you gradually descend into just barely holding it together. My thought here is that ideal chess is very similar. There are the routine strategies, tactics and perfect moves. And then there is this raw impulsive fast paced aspect of just making the least awful move to just survive what is thrown at you with the bits of focus you still have left.