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25 May 22
@divegeester saidCongrats!! I really mean that. This is not a minor achievement. Start some tactics training. Get the completive fires burning. You can do this!! 🙂
After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
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25 May 22
@divegeester saidQuite brave of you. Congratulations!
After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
@mchill saidThanks, appreciate that.
Congrats!! I really mean that. This is not a minor achievement. Start some tactics training. Get the completive fires burning. You can do this!! 🙂
I am quite a competitive person but only in certain things and in certain ways. For example I will fight in every individual game of chess to win it, but I have never tried to improve my game by reading up or other means. I play for fun and for clan wins that’s it, wether or not I improve hasn’t really mattered.
In clan games if I’m at say 1100 then I just play someone at 1100 rather than someone at 1000, so it makes no real difference. In general terms what would I likely get to if I focused hard and put time in… 1200 maybe? I don’t know how much a person can improve their natural level by practice and effort.
So is all this chess rating just a bit of vanity really?
25 May 22
@kevin-eleven saidI wouldn’t say “brave”, I wasn’t aware of summoning up any courage when I entered the tournament. I did have a slight sense of epiphany I suppose, a sort of “why didn’t I do this before” feeling.
Quite brave of you. Congratulations!
Anyway thank you for your congratulations.
25 May 22
@divegeester saidonly four behind Suzi 😆
After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
25 May 22
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@gertrude saidYou would have to take into consideration who the games were won against. That would give you a better idea of the real rating of the person won it. 🙂
only four behind Suzi 😆
EDIT: The gooster gives me for too much credit in giving him incentive. It was more like get up off your butt and do a some studying which would do you much better than what you are doing in here now.
-VR
25 May 22
@very-rusty saidit took the gooster 14 years to nail his first tourny win
You would have to take into consideration who the games were won against. That would give you a better idea of the real rating of the person won it. 🙂
EDIT: The gooster gives me for too much credit in giving him incentive. It was more like get up off your butt and do a some studying which would do you much better than what you are doing in here now.
-VR
will he live long enough to get a second 😢
25 May 22
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@gertrude saidLemon,
it took the gooster 14 years to nail his first tourny win
will he live long enough to get a second 😢
He can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think he has played in a lot of tournaments.
If he is actually studying some that is good thing for him and his Clanmates! I would say kudo's to that.
-VR
25 May 22
@divegeester
TU from me, Dive. Tournament play has its own dynamic, different to playing one-on-one; it’s good to gain that experience.
25 May 22
@divegeester saidIt takes some sort of courage, I think, and some sense of humour too. 🙂
I wouldn’t say “brave”, I wasn’t aware of summoning up any courage when I entered the tournament. I did have a slight sense of epiphany I suppose, a sort of “why didn’t I do this before” feeling.
Anyway thank you for your congratulations.