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baronderkilt 14-Dec-09, 12:17	Does it help your Chess !? OK, so you've been squandering your time doing something that was NOT playing Corr., Turn-based, OTB Skittles or Tournaments. So, does it help your Chess? * 1. Blitz Play ... yes in a way it gets me used to moving faster & perhaps seeing a tactic [tho I feel puzzles and pattern/combination studies are much better that way]. But yes, it has Finally, been detrimental to my other play. After wading thru months of garbage blitz games online, I am starting to lose my conception of Real Positions. And play sloppy in slower TC's now. * 2. BRIDGE ... YES, I think it IS helping to see things a certain different way, from the perspective of the Back & Forth nature of it at times, other times forcing. That is all I can say to describe it. It somehow feels easier to play Chess lately, and to not have a Forcing Sequence in Chess no longer "feel" like a loss of Control of the game. Normally I would Always feel in control of my Chess games, to different degrees; up to the point where I am LOST ... haha. * 3. YOUtube.com ...YES! Not only great chess videos, but just the music too. During Chess play it Revs me up for blitz, or Relaxes before a game. Or during. And just a better mood. * 4. My Nutritionals ... Yeah. But I hate it when I take one that's gotten "Old" and start sprouting green alfalfa from ... well never mind. You don't want That info.

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baronderkilt
14-Dec-09, 12:17

Does it help your Chess !?

OK, so you've been squandering your time doing something that was NOT playing Corr., Turn-based, OTB Skittles or Tournaments. So, does it help your Chess?
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1. Blitz Play ... yes in a way it gets me used to moving faster & perhaps seeing a tactic [tho I feel puzzles and pattern/combination studies are much better that way]. But yes, it has Finally, been detrimental to my other play. After wading thru months of garbage blitz games online, I am starting to lose my conception of Real Positions. And play sloppy in slower TC's now.
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2. BRIDGE ... YES, I think it IS helping to see things a certain different way, from the perspective of the Back & Forth nature of it at times, other times forcing. That is all I can say to describe it. It somehow feels easier to play Chess lately, and to not have a Forcing Sequence in Chess no longer "feel" like a loss of Control of the game. Normally I would Always feel in control of my Chess games, to different degrees; up to the point where I am LOST ... haha.
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3. YOUtube.com ...YES! Not only great chess videos, but just the music too. During Chess play it Revs me up for blitz, or Relaxes before a game. Or during. And just a better mood.
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4. My Nutritionals ... Yeah. But I hate it when I take one that's gotten "Old" and start sprouting green alfalfa from ... well never mind. You don't want That info.

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