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Topic: Does playing chess here (QA) make you a better otb tournament player.
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Playing 2000 games has helped my OTB play to improve dramatically. I left the analysis of my improvement to the end.
Have you had a similiar experiance. What helps you to improve? Please share.
My quest for 2000 games seamed to be more than just foolishness. My new goal for QA is to continously have 50 tournamnet games in progress. And to analyse my losses and draws. I think that will help me to continue to improve my over the baord play.
Do you anyone who cares more about their postal play than OTB, and play OTB becuase they think it will make them a better postal player?
I did not play in any USCF rated tournaments for 3 years. When I stopped playing my rating was 1803. A rating of 1803 implies that I was better than 90% of USCF players. In the past 10 weeks I have played 22 games and my rating is 1957. A rating of 1957 implies that I am better than 95% of USCF players. A big milestone for me is making it to expert that is a rating of 2000. USCF haas an online rating estimator. I used this to rate my past 5 tournaments with the assumption that my rating when I returned to play was 2000. The result was 2030. I think that 22 games is a a statistically large sample. I am going to guess that if my rating started at 2035 10 weeks ago it would still be at 2035. A rating of 2035 corresponds to the 98%.
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I would think that ANY chess you play will benefit your OTB play. But would it improve your OTB play as much as using the same time for other things (study, more OTB chess, etc.) Again, I would think so up to a cretain amount. You play CC a little different - more looking up book openings, more thought given to making plans and alternate plans and the like. It probably works like cross-training where you are training slightly to the side to improve peripheral areas which enable a better push along the 'main line' of interest later.
I'd push out a bit and say too much CC chess would be less beneficial in that some of that time could be spent studying.
Balance, my son, ooooomm....
Steve
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