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| Posted by fuebue uskidscompute.com 2/16/2003 09:39:10 Play online chess |  Subject: Average thinking timeMessage: What is yours? Less than a minute? Mine is 23 sec. Maybe we can play in the same team? I've build a new one: The Quickies - a fast players company Come and join us, let's have some fun together! |
| Posted by premium_steve uskidscompute.com 2/16/2003 09:53:30 Play online chess | Message: 35 seconds. i remember it used to be 43 or something though |
| Posted by v_glorioso12 uskidscompute.com 2/16/2003 14:05:26 Play online chess | i am 20 sec. Message: i usually take about 5 or 10 sec., but it never goes under 10... mabye its telling me to take more time on my moves... ——— Chess Hustling, a Look Back — Part of the fabric of night life in New York City, particularly during the summer, are the street chess games. Dozens of chess players in places like Washington Square Park, Union Square and St. Nicholas Avenue and 141st Street are up all night, taking on all comers, for a few dollars a game. The games are fast and gritty and often peppered with non-stop and colorful banter. Chess hustling has been around for many years, but how and when did it begin? In 2007, a hustler named Kenny, who went by the name Little Daddy, and who had been hustling on the street for decades, said that the guy who started it all was a man named Bobby Haywood. He said that Haywood appeared one day in ... |
| Posted by silverwolfwsc uskidscompute.com 2/16/2003 16:33:39 Play online chess | 28 seconds.... Message: I guess thats relatively quick.... ——— Carlsen Express Rolls on — The King’s Chess Tournament in Romania is turning into an exhibition. Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the world’s No. 1 player, beat Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan on Monday, to run his winning streak in the chess event to four games. He leads the tournament with 5.5 points after seven rounds. Boris Gelfand of Israel, the only player not to lose to Carlsen so far, is in second place with 4.5 points, after beating Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania on Monday. Carlsen and Gelfand play Tuesday. Though Carlsen has won the last three chess tournaments he has played (Amber, Corus and the London Classic), the last time he was on a roll like he is now was ... |
| Posted by judokausa uskidscompute.com 2/16/2003 20:06:40 Play online chess | What are you asking Message: What is my average thinking time per move? It depends, during portions of the opening or a forced variation it is very quick. Perhaps less than 5 seconds. During complex positions I use several minutes at least. probably something like 10-20 minutes in recent games against stronger players. As you get better your time per move will increase because you will see deeper into the position (5-6 moves instead of 2-3) and you will see more threats/counters and plans that need to change based on your opponents move. OTB play I try to manage my time so that I end up with 5 minutes or so at the time control. Similar to this I use all the time I have to think over my moves and the variations. The one game I have lost to date was because I played too rapidly. (I was playing far far too fast, something I will never do again.) I went from a dead won game to a lost one by playing quick. ——— Carlsen Sprints Ahead at King's Tournament — With a little good fortune, Magnus Carlsen is on a tear. Carlsen, the top seed, won his third game in a row at the King’s Chess Tournament in Romania on Sunday. This time, his victim was Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine, who was winning for most of the game. But then he blundered (23 Rf2? instead of 23 Kh1) allowing Carlsen to turn the tables. He was also a bit fortunate in Round 5, on Saturday, when he beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania. In that game, Nisipeanu had a small advantage, but Carlsen employed a nice feint and Nisipeanu took the bait (17 Qd5, he should have played 17 Nd5), after which his position was very difficult. Carlsen, a Norwegian, now has 4.5 points and ... |
| Posted by mormel12 uskidscompute.com 2/17/2003 15:16:13 Play online chess | judokausa Message: your average thinking time per move here at gk is 1.2 minutes:) greetings ——— A Player Steps Up His Game and Wins the National Open — Chess players often talk of the creative aspect of chess — the role of imagination in conceiving strategies. Sometimes the desire to execute an original plan can overwhelm even the desire to win. Mikhail Tal, a former world chess champion, wrote in his autobiography that he had lost more than a few games because he had chosen a “beautiful” combination, only to discover that he had miscalculated. To borrow a baseball metaphor, a grand slam for a chess player would be to play brilliantly, win the game and defeat a strong opponent when there is a lot riding on the outcome. That is what Timur Gareev of Uzbekistan did in the final round of the National Open in Las Vegas last Sunday. He trailed ... |
| Posted by judokausa uskidscompute.com 2/17/2003 15:35:01 Play online chess | average is misleading Message: that is rather misleading since it takes into account all moves. The opening goes rather fast, if I am not sure of what to play I pop open a book or my data base and find the move. I can whip out the first 5-10 moves in some openings without thinking. This dramatically reduces my average think time. Trust me when I say I spend a LOT of time thinking over moves once we leave the middle game. Also I don't think about obvious or forced recaptures or sequences. I also use the notes portion to talk to myself and write down expected variations. This also helps me to inprove my board sight in otb chess (my real goal) and helps when I talk to my coach about the games in question. the question is a good one. I wonder if there is a way to find time taken per move for a game. ——— Timur Gareyev wins US National Open — Timur Gareyev, an Uzbek chess grandmaster who attends the University of Texas in Brownsville, won the US National Open last weekend in Las Vegas. Gareyev yielded a first-round draw to IM Joe Bradford of Texas but won his next five games. He was particularly tough on Southern Californians, inflicting defeats on IM Andranik Matikozyan and, in the final round, GM Varuzhan Akobian. Tied for second at 5-1 were Akobian and GMs Arthur Kogan (Israel), Alex Lenderman (New York) and Alejandro Ramirez (Costa Rica). Matikozyan tied for sixth at 41/2-11/2. There were 19 GMs in the 105-player Open section. Two Southern Californians, Danyul Lawrence and 12-year-old Michael W. Brown, shared ... |
| Posted by mormel12 uskidscompute.com 2/18/2003 07:54:52 Play online chess | judokausa Message: you're right if you say the average thinking time doesn't mean anything, but it's nice stats:) greetings |
| Posted by thegoodanarchist uskidscompute.com 3/18/2003 16:32:59 Play online chess | average thinking time Message: Mine used to be much higher until I was up a queen for a rook AND I had an attack, but I moved quickly and blundered my queen in a tournament game. Since then it is no less than 30 seconds per move! |
| Posted by north uskidscompute.com 3/19/2003 07:58:38 Play online chess | It varies with me. Message: Early in the game it's around 15-20 seconds. Later on it'll go up to a minute or so. Depends on my opponent too. thegoodanarchist : I used to have that problem, until I turned on the move confirmation...a big savior. |
| Posted by peppe_l uskidscompute.com 3/19/2003 08:59:28 Play online chess | Actually Message: The average thinking time tells nothing about how fast one really moves. For example I have very short average thinking time only because usually I log in and check have my opponents made any moves, then I start analyzing on real board. So I can think 3 secs (clearly forced moves, theory moves in opening etc) or 3 days, but my average thinkining time will be approx the same(!). |