Correspondence thinking time

Hello
I would be intrestet in your average calculation time in correspondence

Mine wouild be maybe 20 to 30 seconds

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When I played correspondence, maybe 5 minutes.

In my game against breakfast I estimated I spent over 24 hours in total.

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When I play a live game on a real board without time limit, I spend at most 75 minutes of total thinking time, that is 35-40 seconds/move on average. So I suppose that I spend about the same time in correspondence games.

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Usually less than in a lightning game. I am more focused in a lightning game.
In a correspondence I sometimes forget that I am in a ko fight.

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Maybe that’s how I managed to win a game with 7 groups in endgame :slight_smile:

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Usually around 15-20 minutes for each move(I mean past joe-seki and etc, it could be variable)
At yose one of games I spent hours and litteraly counted how much each move cost couple of times trough it, with double or even triple check

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Usually about 20 seconds before I click submit and then several hours / days afterwards worrying it was a mistake :sweat_smile:

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2 seconds to 10 minutes, largely uncorrelated with the complexity of the situation. :smiley:

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same, same

You must be my long-lost brother :smile:

Not long, maybe 30-60 seconds. I treat them more like OTB games, but where I get to take big breaks between moves. I only occasionally take time to analyze the position more than I would OTB. I’m pretty bad at the game so far, so I just want to get a bunch of games under my belt and learn from them. I’ll worry about winning games later, and when that time comes, I’ll probably treat correspondence games more catiously.

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