05 Aug 08
Originally posted by Mad RookSo you're saying that even 100 points over my rating still sucks.
Hmm, I think you may have misunderstood my humor. I didn't mean that "good" is 100 points over Eladar's rating. I meant "good" is 100 points over your own rating. Therefore, "good" is always just a little out of reach. 🙂
Thanks for the vote of confidence. 😉
05 Aug 08
Originally posted by EladarI'm hoping you understand what I meant, but in case you didn't, I'll explain.
So you're saying that even 100 points over my rating still sucks.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. 😉
Let's say your rating is 1200. Then TO YOU, 1100 sucks, and 1300 is good. But even if you study and practice and increase your rating to 1500, then TO YOU, 1400 now sucks and 1600 is now good. In other words, "good" is a relative term that changes in line with the change in your rating.
And by the way, in case anyone else just tuned in, I was joking, so no attacks from left field. 😀
06 Aug 08
Originally posted by Mad RookBingo.
I'm hoping you understand what I meant, but in case you didn't, I'll explain.
Let's say your rating is 1200. Then TO YOU, 1100 sucks, and 1300 is good. But even if you study and practice and increase your rating to 1500, then TO YOU, 1400 now sucks and 1600 is now good. In other words, "good" is a relative term that changes in line with the change in you ...[text shortened]... he way, in case anyone else just tuned in, I was joking, so no attacks from left field. 😀
told you so. 🙂
06 Aug 08
Originally posted by XXXchessguyXXXJust out of curiosity, your game with BareBeaver, he moved his queen and you had checkmate, why did you resign? Also, there was one game where no moves at all were made and you resigned. And one where b3 was played first and only move and you resigned. What is up with that? It's one thing to play and lose, but quite another to give up with ZERO moves made or ONE move made or with a CHECKMATE in hand.
I have decided to give up playing chess, I'm not very good at it. I'm cancelling my membership.
06 Aug 08
Originally posted by sonhouseI also noticed that. But I guessed that he had already decided to stop playing chess before he resigned all those games, so those multiple resignations were just a "super resignation" from the game of chess.
Just out of curiosity, your game with BareBeaver, he moved his queen and you had checkmate, why did you resign? Also, there was one game where no moves at all were made and you resigned. And one where b3 was played first and only move and you resigned. What is up with that? It's one thing to play and lose, but quite another to give up with ZERO moves made or ONE move made or with a CHECKMATE in hand.
08 Aug 08
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Originally posted by XXXchessguyXXXBeing "very good at it" isn't a pre-requsite for enjoying our great game. See what the great Dr. Tarrasch had to say about the subject:
I have decided to give up playing chess, I'm not very good at it. I'm cancelling my membership.
"Any moderately talented player, he need not be especially gifted, can become a master. But really, there is no need for that. The right standpoint is to play for pleasure - and do not think that pleasure is proportional to skill. The greatest bunglers are constantly deriving the greatest pleasure from chess - they go into ecstasies of delight when their Knight forks a King and Queen."- from The Game of Chess.
09 Aug 08
Exactly! If you want to win, just play lower rated players. You can have all the enjoyment in the world if you play the right level player.
Chess can be very frustrating if you are playing opponents that simply outclass you every time you play. I think I'm like most people and enjoy winning and hate to lose, but chess has helped me out in that area too. You've got to be able to handlle defeat if you are going to play chess. The only thing that really makes me angry now is a bad blunder, even then I have to be pretty tired to get angry about it.
Of course being tired and blundering go hand in hand. 😉