It's not only bad practice but it's also against the rules. You can't use chess engines like chess.com analysis board during games unless specifically given permission to. You use the analysis after games or before it NOT during. That includes daily chess.
Is it bad practice to use the analysis board during daily chess?
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BlizzardLizzard wrote:
It's not only bad practice but it's also against the rules. You can't use chess engines like chess.com analysis board during games unless specifically given permission to. You use the analysis after games or before it NOT during. That includes daily chess.
https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444879-fair-play-on-chess-com-what-you-need-to-know
This doesn't say you cant use the analysis option thats available to you within the daily chess game...
You can use the tool to see concrete variations, yes. Obviously you can’t use any tool that suggests a move or gives you an evaluation.
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
rdmccarthy wrote:
You can use the tool to see concrete variations, yes. Obviously you can’t use any tool that suggests a move or gives you an evaluation.
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
Perhaps you can calculate a variation or variations mentally, then double check them on the analysis board.
Or you could bypass the analysis board altogether. Which is what is being recommended.
rdmccarthy wrote:
You can use the tool to see concrete variations, yes. Obviously you can’t use any tool that suggests a move or gives you an evaluation.
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
To answer your question:
If you only want to play daily chess there’s nothing wrong with “moving the pieces around” - but some players argue that if you want to improve your game playing over the board, that will mean practicing your mental calculations whilst looking at a static board.
How well can you visualise variations without touching a piece? Can you clearly see some where as others are more difficult? This is hugely important playing a real life opponent.
So if you want to improve seriously OTB I’d suggest not using it.
Make sense?
Yes, this makes sense. Getting better at OTB is my primary goal. I guess I'll never be able to look multiple moves ahead and keep track of the different variations if I don't start practicing early on.
CaptainBearFace wrote:
I think it slows learning, like @rdmccarthy said. The better you can visualize the moves in your head, the better player you'll be. I've been slowly weaning myself off the analysis board, it's tough.
I'll try to do the same. I agree thats is tough without it. It's difficult to keep track of so many moves in my head.
Do you think it improves learning or slows it down?