Contemplation or Overconfidence.
Correspondence chess is kinda funny. You wait, and wait, and wait... You are so anxiety at seeing the game progress often clouds your judgment, and makes you do thing without thinking them all of the way through. I have Won 8, Lost 4 and drawn 1 game in the last week or so. About half of them where lost on a real boneheaded mistake by me or my opponent. It is actually quite disappointing when you are engaged in an epic battle, and all of the sudden your opponent hand the game to you, just when it is getting good. It is not quite as disappointing as when you hand the game to your opponent.
You would think that having a day or two to think about a move would make you more careful, but I think my natural response is to be overconfident when I have been staring at the board for hours or days.
