09 Nov '12 03:06>
Originally posted by Paul LeggettI've found that a mix of tactics practise and regular blitz or rapid online helps keep my eye in. Going cold turkey from the analyse board will just get you in trouble in your correspondence games and have a knock on negative effect on your confidence. I'm sure you probably do all this stuff anyway, but it's getting the right balance, that's basically what i'm getting at.
I identify with this. RHP helped my OTB game at first, but as I have become more adept at the whole CC process ( I have even gone as far as doing "pawn chain" searches in chessbase, where I took the game and removed all the pieces, and then searched just based on the pawns), I think it has actually impaired my OTB mental process.
I am considering go ...[text shortened]... it's only my obligation to clan games that has held me back from immediate implementation.
I find when i play correspondence exclusively, the time i take over each move gets longer and longer (over a week or few), until i reach a point of complete inertia and don't move at all. I then go and play blitz and get destroyed by everyone and their dog. I now force myself to play one or two rapid or blitz games a day, even if i don't really feel like it, just to keep the juices flowing.