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sibling! I think you brought interesting points (not done yet as usual).

Each time control having its own trade-offs of optimal behavior. I have been also of the opinion that seeing diversity of position across long chess time scales (game depth) per human day time scale (or whatever time budget one is giving to chess) is something to be had so that correlations beyond tactical might emerge for the slow uptake but time proximity needing brain type to pick up such correlations.

However, there is also correspondance. where no-one tells you how fast to play. so whatever quality of chess the opponent is giving you as food for thought, you can always play your mini-games, with the carrot of next move on the opponent for a surprise beyond your imagination.

Also there is post-game study... where one could enlist the help of others and fast forward through the game.

But i note your point that rapid may have its own middle-ground opportunity to see things that the other time controls might have dismissed from both sides.. I think for people who like fast time controls in general, what you described might hold.

but slower does not mean slower all the time. And each individual may have own intellectual times scales where what you describe may happen. I guess it is a continuum. and relatively speaking.. somewhere in all the time controls there is a place for some strategies (meta strategies?) to take the upper hand over others.

what i understand is that you say that rapid games might be to strategy what puzzles are to tactics.

Edit: the volume of diverse positions having long term consequences can be had in parallel (if one is not too specialized any to repeat same long seqeunces of moves anyway in any time control), in correspondance.
Improvement = Time * Focus * (new territory)

we carry with us our past experience, for which new territory can be individually defined. (talking about digested experience of course).

maybe i am more talking about

Better understanding = Time * Focus * Novelty (for self)
@dboing said in #3:
> sibling! I think you brought interesting points (not done yet as usual).
>
> Each time control having its own trade-offs of optimal behavior. I have been also of the opinion that seeing diversity of position across long chess time scales (game depth) per human day time scale (or whatever time budget one is giving to chess) is something to be had so that correlations beyond tactical might emerge for the slow uptake but time proximity needing brain type to pick up such correlations.
>
> However, there is also correspondance. where no-one tells you how fast to play. so whatever quality of chess the opponent is giving you as food for thought, you can always play your mini-games, with the carrot of next move on the opponent for a surprise beyond your imagination.
>
> Also there is post-game study... where one could enlist the help of others and fast forward through the game.
>
> But i note your point that rapid may have its own middle-ground opportunity to see things that the other time controls might have dismissed from both sides.. I think for people who like fast time controls in general, what you described might hold.
>
> but slower does not mean slower all the time. And each individual may have own intellectual times scales where what you describe may happen. I guess it is a continuum. and relatively speaking.. somewhere in all the time controls there is a place for some strategies (meta strategies?) to take the upper hand over others.
>
> what i understand is that you say that rapid games might be to strategy what puzzles are to tactics.
>
> Edit: the volume of diverse positions having long term consequences can be had in parallel (if one is not too specialized any to repeat same long seqeunces of moves anyway in any time control), in correspondance.
im not ur sibling
sib for bro. and i was talking to op. just varying the familiar lingo.
@Hyper_Accelerated_Me said in #6:
> Why is he swearing he might get reported.

i think it was a character speaking as such. We need to have some leeway in the forms, without having word reflexes blind to the speech form. It may be to wake up the reader falling asleep on the words too.....