Online chess to hard?

wrong. Idk why, my mind's wierd i guess, but i play FASTER online than live. I'll make a move, and WHILE i'm clicking 'submit move' i calculate the whole variation in my head at the same time (about half the time i then hit myself in the head because i made a blunder).

No I take full advantage of the stuff here and think for awhile. I like having time to think deeply and totally relaxed too. It's just a different, slower type of game. If I wanted to move quick, I would play live. Otherwise online is just a less fun version of live if you just play the same speed but without the tension.

I sometimes play live chess but depends on how alert I am as to how well I do ... whereas in correspondence i can have longer to think. I prefer to play 3days p/m games as that way you don't have to wait ages for slower opponents to reply

I agree with the OP, online chess is to hard.

Yeah, you go deeper into the game. It's just that you don't get the raw calculation practice, but who thinks about a detailed plan when a puzzle says you have a combination? You learn different things with different time controls, but I do think you get more knowledge from turn based and long live.

Good help so far.  Take your time to study game positions.  Most times it helps your game. You will gain more out of the game in the long run.  Lots of times, it may not work in your favor.  Move on to another game.  Learn to win and lose graciously.  Have fun!  We are all wrapped up in this game together.  Happy chess to you!

 i do that after i click submit move and then i found out that i made a horrible mistake as i go to the next game.

It rarely happens to me. I think it's because they simply don't want to spend that much time on an internet game.

I prefer blitz, cause my connection is to unstable, I lost a won game yesterday cause of my bad connection, grrrr...

Otherwise I would play mostly 15-30 min games, blitz is fun, but not so deep.

It takes to long!

At this site, how does correspondence chess work? It does feel like I am playing a correspondence game with a fellow teacher who I play once a week during our lunch break. We get in about 5 moves a week. He's a very slow, defensive player, but I am enjoying the match. It's pretty close.

I have only played 5 minute blitz games here at chess.com, most of which I find too hard because I am a beginner (3 months) and have not built up a sufficient amount of chess patterns for which to improvise with in real time to be very good at fast play. I do enjoy OTB the best, but that doesn't happen enough.

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It seems like chess is not big in California. I'm in Southern California and LA is 90 miles from home, where a few chess clubs exist. It would be a blast to live in a state or country where I could walk down the street and see folks playing chess nightly at some local pub, or something like that.