I have trouble looking for good moves on OTB games too.
But it's even harder for me to play chess on a 3D-represented board, like in computer games as Chessmaster.
I was hard for me to adapt to a physical board with physical pieces since my first aproach to chess was online chess, just like you.
So, I tryied to get better at OBT pattern recognition playing chessmaster (with a beautifully rendered wooden 3D chess in my computer monitor) but I found it even more difficult to "read" the board and I don't think my brain can really 100% relate the artificial 3D-rendered on a monitor with the real OTB feel, at least not from scratch.
I guess 2D, computer 3D, and physical chess are three different worlds with different feels and it's not quite automatic to migrate our chess pattern recognition from one to another if you're not yet fully confortable with all of them.
I understand not all brains work the same way, so must be different from one person to another, as someone said before in the above comments.
But it's even harder for me to play chess on a 3D-represented board, like in computer games as Chessmaster.
I was hard for me to adapt to a physical board with physical pieces since my first aproach to chess was online chess, just like you.
So, I tryied to get better at OBT pattern recognition playing chessmaster (with a beautifully rendered wooden 3D chess in my computer monitor) but I found it even more difficult to "read" the board and I don't think my brain can really 100% relate the artificial 3D-rendered on a monitor with the real OTB feel, at least not from scratch.
I guess 2D, computer 3D, and physical chess are three different worlds with different feels and it's not quite automatic to migrate our chess pattern recognition from one to another if you're not yet fully confortable with all of them.
I understand not all brains work the same way, so must be different from one person to another, as someone said before in the above comments.