allo allo allo, what's all this then, whats all this then.
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:49 am
In moved from a state of being suspicious to both annoyed and even more suspicious, I thought I'd ask for opinion on something I keep picking up on.
I play a lot on line, usually 10 or 15 minute games but sometimes 5 minutes game also, but every 20 games or so something keep happening which I think I know what it is but I could be wrong.
I do have a tendency to play rather offbeat or quaint openings, and whenever I play someone with a rating of 1800 or lower after the first few moves have been played they go into a long think, like 2 or 3 minutes. Before move 5 I find this difficult to understand. My feeling is that opponents are opening browsers and quickly googling the opening I am playing so that they can find out what to do against it, as much of the play is bookish when this happens.
I could be wrong, someone might be distracted or something, I can't say for sure but why would someone pause on move 2 for 2 minutes when they have only 5 or 10 minutes on the clock?
I play a lot on line, usually 10 or 15 minute games but sometimes 5 minutes game also, but every 20 games or so something keep happening which I think I know what it is but I could be wrong.
I do have a tendency to play rather offbeat or quaint openings, and whenever I play someone with a rating of 1800 or lower after the first few moves have been played they go into a long think, like 2 or 3 minutes. Before move 5 I find this difficult to understand. My feeling is that opponents are opening browsers and quickly googling the opening I am playing so that they can find out what to do against it, as much of the play is bookish when this happens.
I could be wrong, someone might be distracted or something, I can't say for sure but why would someone pause on move 2 for 2 minutes when they have only 5 or 10 minutes on the clock?