Tip for beginners from a beginner

Hi:

I started playing chess mid-November. I have been playing on Chess.com relentlessly. I found a club and finally started playing OTB chess (3 games under my belt so far).

ONE IMPORTANT thing (at least I have learned), is that staring at and playing on a 2-D board for too long can hurt your OTB visibility. I make bad moves on Chess.com but not too many blunders because its a birds-eye view of the board and I can clearly see threats.

I've mad a few big blunders in my first couple OTB games. Moves that just shocked me. How couldn't I have possibly caught that !

So, my solution is to now set up a real board for my games on Chess.com and play OTB in that fashion, then put my move into the computer and submit. Its helped, and I just thought this would be helpful for people like me... not for the rest of you guys out there!

playind too much 2D chess and very little OTB chess (3D) will definitely affect your visibility (in terms of chess ) although it will vary from person to person.

i agree, using 3D pieces online helped me a lot