Five BIG Differences Between Online and Over The Board Chess
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Alex, a chess player rated under 2000 ELO, discusses the differences between over-the-board and online chess. He highlights the importance of playing gambits in classical chess, the impact of physical presence on the game, the significance of mental and physical health, and the shift towards more positional play in longer time controls. Alex emphasizes the critical role of endgames in over-the-board chess due to the extended time for calculation and higher stakes, urging viewers to study endgames.
Takeaways
- 😀 Alex enjoys playing gambits in chess and suggests that they can be effective in both online and over-the-board games.
- 🤔 When playing classical chess, Alex changed his repertoire to include more formal openings, but encourages others to play what they know and enjoy.
- 💡 Gambits can cause panic in higher-rated players, which might be an advantage for lower-rated players using them.
- 👀 Physical presence and behavior can influence the game, as over-the-board chess involves sitting across from your opponent.
- 💪 Physical fitness and mental toughness are important for enduring long games that can last several hours.
- 🧠 The psychological aspect of the game, including mind games and emotional control, is significant in over-the-board play.
- 🕒 Longer time controls in over-the-board chess lead to more positional and strategic play rather than relying on tactics.
- 🏆 The stakes are higher in over-the-board games, which can lead to more games going to the endgame.
- 📈 Endgames are more important in over-the-board chess due to the increased time for calculation and higher level of play.
- 📚 Alex recommends studying endgames to improve over-the-board performance, acknowledging that he needs to follow his own advice.
Q & A
What is the main difference between playing classical over the board chess and online chess?
-The main differences include the physical presence of the opponent, the psychological and mind games that occur, the higher level of play due to longer time controls, and the importance of endgames in classical chess.
Why does Alex recommend continuing to play gambits in classical chess?
-Alex recommends playing gambits in classical chess because they can create panic in the opponent and are less likely to be familiar to players, which can give an advantage.
How does physicality play a role in over the board chess according to Alex?
-Physicality can influence the psychological aspect of the game. Alex suggests that his physical presence might intimidate opponents, and the way players carry themselves can affect the tension and mind games between them.
What is Alex's opinion on the importance of physical fitness for chess players?
-Alex believes physical fitness is important for chess players as it can provide a psychological advantage and is necessary to maintain energy and mental toughness during long games.
Why are endgames more critical in over the board chess compared to online chess?
-Endgames are more critical in over the board chess because players have more time to calculate and think, and more games progress to the endgame due to the longer time controls and higher stakes.
What changes did Alex make to his chess repertoire when he started playing classical chess?
-Alex initially cut out gambits from his repertoire and started playing more formal openings like the Italian, Sicilian, or Spanish when he began playing classical chess.
Why does Alex think it's unnecessary to worry about having a perfect opening repertoire in classical chess?
-Alex believes that players should play openings they are familiar with and enjoy, rather than trying to follow grandmaster recommendations perfectly.
How does the time control in online chess affect the likelihood of falling for tactics?
-In online chess with shorter time controls, players are less likely to fall for tactics because they have less time to calculate and make mistakes.
What is the general approach to playing chess in person compared to online, according to Alex?
-In person, chess tends to be more positional and strategic over the long term, while online chess can be more tactical and focused on short-term gains.
What is Alex's advice for players who want to improve their endgame skills in classical chess?
-Alex advises studying endgames more thoroughly, as they are more important in classical chess due to the reasons mentioned in the video.
What is the significance of the physical presence of opponents in classical chess, as discussed by Alex?
-The physical presence of opponents in classical chess adds an extra layer of psychological pressure and mind games that are not present in online chess.
Outlines
🏆 Differences Between Online and Over-the-Board Chess
In the first paragraph, Alex introduces himself as a chess player with an ELO rating just under 2000. He aims to discuss the differences between online and over-the-board chess, particularly for those who might be transitioning from online play to tournaments or leagues. Alex emphasizes the importance of adapting one's play style for over-the-board games and suggests that certain tips could be beneficial. He begins by talking about openings, noting that his preference for gambits remains consistent across different formats of chess. He points out that while many players change their repertoire to more formal openings when playing classical chess, he continues to use gambits effectively against higher-rated players, as they can cause panic and are less familiar to opponents.
💪 Physicality and Mind Games in Chess
In the second paragraph, Alex discusses the physical aspect of playing chess over the board, contrasting it with the online experience where players do not face each other directly. He talks about how a player's physical presence, demeanor, and behavior can influence the game's psychological dynamics. Alex shares his personal experience of how his stature and fitness might affect his opponents. He also touches on the idea that physical fitness can be advantageous in long games, which are common in over-the-board chess, and how it can impact a player's mental and emotional state.
🧠 Mental and Physical Health's Role in Chess Performance
Alex continues the discussion on physicality by emphasizing the importance of mental and physical health in chess. He mentions famous players like Magnus Carlsen and Duda, who highlight the significance of being in good physical shape for the game. He argues that being physically fit can provide a psychological edge and is crucial for enduring the long, mentally taxing games that are typical in over-the-board chess. Alex also suggests that the mental and physical stress of a game can be alleviated by being in better shape.
⏳ The Importance of Endgames in Over-the-Board Chess
In the final paragraph, Alex focuses on the significance of endgames in over-the-board chess. He explains that endgames are more critical due to the longer time controls and the higher stakes involved in tournaments and leagues. He points out that players are less likely to resign early and more likely to fight until the end, making endgame skills essential. Alex also notes that because of the time available, players can engage in deeper calculations during endgames, which is less common in online formats with shorter time controls. He concludes by urging players to study endgames more diligently.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡ELO
💡Classical Chess
💡Gambit
💡Physicality
💡Mind Games
💡Mental and Physical Health
💡Tactical Chess
💡Positional Chess
💡End Games
💡Stakes
Highlights
Introduction to the video and Alex's chess rating
Differences between classical over the board chess and online chess
Importance of opening repertoire and the author's preference for gambits
Advantage of using gambits in classical chess against higher rated players
Physical presence and its impact on the game
The psychological aspect of physicality in chess
Importance of mental and physical health in chess
The role of longer time controls in over the board chess
The shift from tactical to positional play in classical chess
The significance of endgames in over the board chess
The impact of time increments on endgame play
The tendency for more games to reach endgames in classical chess
The higher stakes of over the board games and their effect on endgame play
The necessity to study endgames for over the board success
Call to action for viewers to comment on the video's usefulness
Encouragement for viewers to like, subscribe, and engage with the content
Transcripts
hello everyone welcome to today's video
for those of you who don't know me my
name is Alex I'm rated just under 2,000
ELO in over theboard classical chess and
in today's video I want to go through a
few a few of the differences between
classical over theboard chess and online
chess because even if you play like a
slower time control online like Rapid or
maybe even classical there is some like
key differences between playing over
theboard and playing online justess
which if you do want to start playing
more over theboard chess maybe go to
some tournaments maybe play in a league
like I do then I I think a few of these
tips could be really useful in kind of
adapting to the over theboard play style
or if you like previously have had no
intention of playing over theboard maybe
I can convince you to give it a go so
the first thing I want to talk about is
actually openings but on a bit of a
specific level my play style as you can
actually see from the game playing in
the background I just got a few games
going on in the background that I
recorded earlier just cuz I was playing
some Blitz chess and some of you um
might want to have something to
stimulate yourself visually while you're
listening um anyway some interesting
games what I'm trying to say is looking
at that game you can see that I enjoy
playing gambits right and whether I'm
playing Blitz bullet Rapid or classical
I enjoy playing Gambit openings because
it's fun like it just makes more
exciting games and I prefer playing
chess in that kind of style now what
happens typically is when you go to play
classical chess you change your
repertoire I I I did this when I started
playing classical chess I changed my
repertoire so that I cut out the gambits
and just played more formal sort of
openings like maybe the Italian or the
Sicilian or I don't know the
Spanish like basically playing Less Fun
openings because they're more
classical chess because oh that's what
the grand Masters play yeah you're not a
Grandmaster so why are you worried about
like your openings not being 10 out of
10 in terms of what the grand Masters
recommend you don't need to just play
something you're familiar with and you
know and you enjoy that's why I continue
to play gambits in over theboard
classical chess against people rated
like 21 2200 like really good play
players I've played gambits against like
bday Masters and gotten draws like I'm
not going to say easily because they
were tough games obviously because I'm
not quite at that level yet but the
Gambit didn't hold me back whatsoever if
anything what happens is that when I
play gambits people start to panic
because the last thing that you want
when you're playing against a lower
rated player is for them to like come at
you with gambits like you you don't want
that as the higher rated player and I
know because I've been the higher rated
player in a lot of those scenarios so I
the the the point of this is basically
to say gambits work if you play gambits
in class in um online chess play it in
over theboard chess play it in classical
chess because they will work like I
promise you they will work
and whe because people aren't familiar
with them majority of the time if they
are they might be too Terrior to even
accept it this happens a lot of the time
when I'm playing against higher rated
players where they will not accept my
Gambit because I know the Gambit and
they know that they don't know it that's
the first thing that I want to that I
wanted to get out of the way because I
think it's like a common misconception
with playing over theboard chess second
thing is something kind of doesn't get
talked about that much but like
physicality because the one of the major
differences obviously between online and
in-person chess is that you're actually
sting sitting across from the person
that you're playing against right so the
way that they look the way they hold
themselves the way that they fidget that
all plays into like the tension between
the players and the Mind Games going on
like off of the board like I mean the
way if if someone just looks confident
then you're more likely to be like oh
um I'm a bit scared now and that might
affect your play style because they look
confident right and for myself like I've
been going to the gym for the past few
years so I'm fairly tall I have a decent
amount of muscle so it's it's like makes
for an interesting Dynamic when I play
against people because like I would
think oh that probably plays into my
hands right like being bigger and I mean
maybe it does I don't know like tonight
I'm playing against this little Indian
kid and I've played against him several
times in my um chess league and he is
really good like he's unbelievably good
for his age but he's like a tiny little
Indian kid right so does that like go in
his favor or is that a detriment
personally I find it
terrifying like that he's that good at
the age that he is right so for me
um or in my opinion like his physicality
or kind of lack thereof I suppose is
actually like playing in his favor
whereas if he was like the typical
60-year-old guy uh well at least that's
the type of people that tend to play uh
where I play it doesn't really carry as
much weight but then also like the way
that someone would dress or just hold
themselves or the way that they like tap
their foot or maybe sip their water or
something like there was that whole
thing with I think um prag Nanda when he
would like sip his water if he thought
he was winning uh I don't know if that
was prag or not but someone was doing
that um I know that for sure and that
was like that's obviously a massive mind
game because if you're playing against
someone that you know sips water when
they think they're winning and then they
sip their water you're going to be like
oh like I'm losing and then you start to
panic and the emotions all come into
play which is also another big part of
over theboard chess like
emotions are a massive thing which comes
on to my third point of mental and
physical health because I think it's
like incredibly important like for chess
you you you look at Players like Magnus
who kind of stress the importance of
physical health you look at I think um I
think it was Duda like there was um
videos of him doing like muscle ups and
that on uh I think pull-up bars in like
Parks which is like difficult where it's
not that easy of a movement to do right
but he's a chess player like do you
really need to be physically fit to be a
chess player I would argue yes I mean
not only would you potentially get a
psychological advantage from just
looking fitter right which again Up For
Debate but let me know what you think
about that in the comments um but also
like if you're just physically fitter
than your opponent if your game is going
on for like 3 four maybe 5 hours which
is not unheard of whatsoever you need
energy like that is a really stressful
environment to be in for that amount of
time right so you're going to need a
certain amount of physical energy and
mental toughness to be able to deal with
that to deal with the stress and to deal
with like the actual physical taxation
on your body I mean there's studies that
have shown that like chess players burn
thousands and thousands of calories
during a chess game and I'm prone to
agree with that I mean I know that I'm
absolutely starving after I play a chess
game so whether that's an indication of
me just really liking food or of it you
know burning a lot of calories who knows
but mental and physical health I think
is a really important part of it so if
you're planning on playing like over
theboard classical chess I would like
pay a bit of attention to that
next thing fourth point is that because
of the like far longer time controls in
over theboard chess and I also think
just generate the higher level of play
because if you're going to go to the
effort of like going to an over theboard
chess tournament or like club or
something you're probably taking chess a
bit more seriously and therefore because
of a longer time control the more formal
environment making for better players
overall it's much harder to play
tactical chess and to win off of tactics
because people are just going to see it
like if you have 10 minutes to make a
move let's say and that wouldn't even
eat up that much of your time you're not
going to fall for that many tactics like
you might fall for a tactic at the end
of a string of five moves during a deep
calculation you're very unlikely to hang
a tactic in one move that means the
Chess at like in like an over theboard
sense tends to be far more positional
and long-term like more strategic over a
long term rather than tactical at least
that's what I found when I've played so
if you're going to play over theboard
chess you can't just play like Blitz and
bullet chest to prepare for it where you
can win off of your opponents just
blundering simple tactics because it's
just not going to happen that much so I
think you need to develop more of a
positional understanding of the game if
you want to play over theboard chess or
you can learn more of a positional uh
kind of grasp of the game by playing
over theboard chess if you see what I
mean um but I think I think it's a good
thing to bear in mind because it's just
a different
game it's it's just a different game
playing in person or playing online and
one of the big differences is it's less
tactical it's way way more positional
for the factors that I just laid out the
final thing that I want to cover and by
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it the final thing is end games this was
in the thumbnail so if you saw the
thumbnail then you were probably waiting
for this um
the end games are way more important in
over theboard chess and I think there's
several reasons for that firstly is that
you simply have more time right you have
maybe maybe like a 30- second increment
or something so you've got lots of time
to do
calculations and to let look at you know
10 20 moves ahead in the future for Like
a Porn race or something or King Grace
or something like that right your
opponents are much less likely the
blunder something like that if they've
got a lot of time to think about it I
mean even just look at the game that's
playing in the background on the screen
now I'm playing an end game in a 3
minute plus 2 second online game right I
don't have that much time to be
calculating so I'm playing mostly off of
instinct rather than having say five
minutes 10 minutes to do a deep
calculation on the position and know
exactly what plan I'm going to play I've
got to switch my plan up a bit because
I'm not actually sure because I haven't
got the time to think about it if you
see what I mean the second reason that
end games are so important I
think is that I think more games simply
just go on until the end game because
like in over the in online chess right
in online chess I think more games get
either just just end like before the end
game happens in terms of one play
resigns or gets checkmated before you
even get to an end
game um but I think also when people
have losing positions in classical games
or Worse positions they're much less
likely to completely capitulate as
somebody in an over theboard game who
can continue trying to find the only
defensive resources and keep on fighting
until the end game and try and get a
draw out of it also because the stakes
are simply higher in an over theboard
game cuz is normally part of like a
tournament or maybe some kind of League
where you really need to try and get a
draw even if you've got a worst position
I've got draws out of terrible terrible
positions several times where if I was
online I probably wouldn't have managed
it but because it was over the board I
had time to really think about it and I
also had the stakes of like oh I can't
just give up like I really need to try
and get a draw out of this game so more
games go to the end game you have more
time to think about the end game
therefore the end game is simply more
important because it happens more and
it's played at a higher level so study
your end games like I don't do it enough
so this is like also a lesson for me
because I don't listen to my own advice
clearly but study your end games I hope
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