Patience in chess!

You can really play chess as hard as you want and as much as You want!

What we don't know is that playing too much gives us dissatisfaction and lethargy!

If we continue to addict ourselves of not stopping and taking break we end up banging our heads to our laptop keyboard!

Therefore, if we want to gain more rating at time and steadily untill threshold continue to study more and take time off!

Or may be if you are witty enough have some 3 accounts to play with_ one for practice and exploit and unleash new play variations, another one for accomplishing your aims to success from what you have gotten from the first one and the third one for last goal of one game play each weak or so if I am not wrong or if You are not mistaken to read this Article

Somali Haywood?

You may be not be playing as hard as you think.  Perception and reality of intensity are two different things.  Mental effort and perceived effort differ in physical and mental efforts.  If you are fatigued you may find that the perception of greater effort is the rule.  Your actual results may be much less due to inefficiency.  It is similar to that in physical training.  When you are lifting extremely heavy weights there may be no strain at all and the amount of repetitions may be low.  As the repetitions increase the perception of greater intensity may be true, when in fact the opposite is happening.  The later reps may feel more intense and may be more result producing, however the actual intensity may be much less.  To mistake perceived intensity for reality is incorrect.  You need to look at the results of how the opening impacts the immediate tactics which later tailor the overall strategy in the middle then the end game.  What is better than always being on the computer is to act like the days existed, which was essentially forever until recently, when there was no internet and all the distracting nonsense that goes with it.  People who trained in board games were forced to consult books and review games by hand on an actual board.  This is actually very relaxing and much more exciting than having so many games going on that it is meaningless.  You arent fresh and each move value isnt perceived as much.  I often consult books on chess and Go in the living room, sitting with my family, rather than stuck in a room facing a computer screen.  I ponder why certain moves were made with games and then reflect.  Then I put the books down and watch some tv with my family.

I don't believe in psychology.................I believe in Moves, M***S!

i agree with you..i love some of these tournaments that force you to play a particular opening and defense..very helpfull..

you also make good point about not very many better players want to play unrated games! somehow I'd like to see this site develop and encourage the average player to play more unrated games against various opponents...and perhaps for specific reasons.

nice reading and hearing opinions

you can play an on-line game with an actual chess board by your side and duplicate moves; when i play this way i seem to have my best results.

its like listening to an unabridged audio book while reading the sentences with a book on your lap at the same time..

Well this idea is certainly not applicable for 3 minutes blitz games :))))