I've just lost a game and I'm beside myself

With pissed offness. I play well enough to beat who I'm supposed to beat. But then I play the big guns and get beat. FUCK that!

I just got beat by a chess international master (IM) in this tournament I'm playing. It's no fun unless you beat who you aren't supposed to beat.

Anyway, I'm not looking for any New Age words of comfort. Although, if you have any similar competitive experience, I'd be willing to listen.

I played fucking ridiculous.

 

Go watch some pawn it'll make you feel better.

Sorry thats all I got, when it comes to jokes about Chess I got nothing

Except maybe the Sicilian defense c5 to e4 and then call in the wiseguys

 

such a bunch of queens

 

it is useful at times to polymorph self, though complications can also arise from doing so.

just remember, when besides yourself, to give each other of yourselves sufficient personal space.

 

Interesting. Although ultimately vapid like any unasked for advice. There are two Chereas battling for supremacy right now. A down-to-earth one, who takes pleasure in small achievements. I'll give you an example, in an earlier round, this morning, I looked around the hall the tournament is being held in, and I realized that I've played many of the top players in my country. Granted, I got beat by, I think, all of them. But I thought having faced most of them was an achievement in and of itself.

The other Cherea is the Cherea you see in the first post. Picking and choosing is futile. They have to duke this one out. Probably until tomorrow morning, when I'll be playing the final round.

Or, until I start preparing for my next opponent. Which is what I should be doing, just in no frame of mind to.

Meanwhile, back in reality, I still have work to do in my jobby-job job. Shit never ends.

 

it's our competitive, manly nature. i get super pissed sometimes when i lose meaningless games. i've started to play mario kart wii online lately, and i pretty much suck.

also, i play a lot of bitcoin poker. i have had some hands that really pissed me off. the most memorable one was at a table with this guy going all in before the flop every hand. i was folding, folding, folding, til i got pocket kings. he has pocket 8s. the fucking river is an 8 and he wins like 50 bucks in bitcoins i think it was.

there are a lot of "bullshit" hands in online poker, but i guess that's what poker is...a lot is luck/chance.

 

why don't the just hug and have a party instead?

i'll grant you 'good advice costs nothing and is worth the price'. far be it from me, to intrude upon the gratificaion, were such to exist, of mutual self distruction.

 

I can't hug anyone or party right now. In fact, I'm in my hotel room sulking since there's loud music coming from some party or another on the next block.

But, soon enough, if the past is any indication, I'll move on. It's just hard to figure out why I bother, right now.

Thanks for your interest.

 

You're a man after my own heart. Thanks for sharing.

 

he might distract himself from it by playing with his bishop.

 

When I was younger I went out with a guy who was a speed chess player and one of the best in the country. He went to the national tournament and got 2nd place and he was despondent.

Me: "You got second place!"

Him:"...but I only got second place!"

*goes back and forth a few times*

You chess people and your quest for domination. It's almost like it's a game or something.

 

I thought about becoming a chess pro, long time ago.
Maybe playing from 3/4 yrs of age helped me.

Last time I lost was once , not far off 18yrs or so ago, against a guy I beat maybe 200 times, who became a pro+champion.

I hate the idea of losing so much, that I even avoid playing the game.
Which I suppose is a bit ridiculous in a way.

But it means my game is less adventurous.

Looking at it objectively, I suppose the game should be about continual development. And probabilities rather than absolute win every time certainties. Even Kasparov would lose.

I've also lost in stuff like martial arts tournament final stages, which is a shit feeling. But in that, I just see it as part of the learning/development.

PS if u were beating who you "shouldnt beat", then you weren't assessing yourself properly...lol

BTW playing ridiculous is probably down to tiredness, focus and nutrition etc. Again.. learning.

 

I used to do really well on yahoo chess but been out of the game for so many years now I'm useless. I can make a game last long, be down and out and manage a come back but for some reason I can never start good. I just have no strategy.

 

I’m only an average chess player, but I remember as a kid being absolutely fascinated over the matches between Anatoly Karpov vs Garry Kasparov.

I was literally glued to the television set back in 1984/85 watching every move (on PBS) and trying to predict the next.

Hotwater

 

Does anybody remember the film Searching for Bobby Fisher?
I haven't seen that since I was a kid but remember really enjoying it.

 

It sounds familiar...

Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they think.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=S...rome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 

I think that's the breakfast club bro.
My movie is chess related.

 

Oh,... :blush5:

 

Great movie :cheers2:



Hotwater

 

I just think it's pretty awesome that you play at that level. I used to think I was a half decent chess player until I played people who took it even the smallest bit more seriously and I got fucking demolished.

All in all I totally agree with porkstocks post, particularly that online poker bullshit. It just turns into a lottery unless you play for bigger money, although I'd still play it and get angry.