Playing chess in real life vs online

Does anyone else have a problem that when playing with REAL chess board in real life, you can think clear, attack aggresively and is really good, but really terrible when playing online?

My blitz rating always goes up and down, about 3 weeks ago my rating was 1700 and now it goes down to 1500. i stopped and decided to play elsewhere because of free analyzing and puzzles. in that website my blitz rating is 1800, but sometimes it also goes down. i do blunder, because sometime i dont pay attention to match, because opponent took so long. sometime it makes me bored that i open new tab and go to youtube listen to some music while waiting.

While in other hand, In real life i must say that my play  is just different, i can think clearly, and in peace. I've joined a chess torunaments few times and won 3rd place once.

My question is, Do you guys  have this problem? how do you deal with it? Different style playing real life and online. and inconsistent rating and such

If you are low and scrambling for time, it is more comfortable to play online than OTB. At OTB when you are scrambling for time, pieces can lie down or be misplaced. You  can also get penalize for illegal moves. At OTB blitz if you allowed your king to be captured, you loses the game.  At OTB,you also need to press the clock with the hand that you used to make a move.

I do share similar experiences.

Mainly it's because I was taught over the board, and grew up in a time before iPads.

But as it is with Time & Technology. there'll be elements of benefits - stated many times over on similar topics.

I have more trouble seeing, at a glance, bishop control along diagonals on a real board but I still prefer one, probably because I grew up with only real boards.

Ooooh, that's not good.  Another argument to reduce the amount of time playing online.

After all, the vast majority of people respect Classical OTB chess and the official rating that comes from OTB chess than the ratings from online chess.

Women are often beautiful on TV but are always more fun to interact with in real life.

I don't really see the difference. Nothing prevents me from playing bad both OTB and online.

I find the opposite to be true. Interaction with social media is fun because you don't have the flatulence and breath issues, but women create more butterflies in real life.

I'm the same way. Person to person, I am 10 times better than when I play online. Not sure why that is, but I know that I am not nearly as consistent as here as I am in front of a board

I've exact same opposite problem , online I'm much better

me im better online than real life because if your online you cant do illegal move in real life no one can stop you from illegal move because online chess are more strict than real life

Play slower games. At least 15+10, but even longer times controls would be more helpful.

You both realize this was posted 2 years ago, right?

Diagrams in books, physical chess sets in various styles (as long as somewhat resembling the design that Staunton patented), and online environments all seem about the same to me. Where I have trouble is with weird chess pieces (as in some iOS apps) and on my phone, where the small size seems to cause me to miss some critical contacts.

I am the same exact way.