Originally posted by mateuloseI hate losing and always beat myself up but then foregive myself and go back and look why I lost. Yes of course I get even more frustarted if I do it again, here are some examples of REPEATED mistakes:
I'm honestly geting very angry, it seems like my games basicly end in 3 ways:
1) If I win, it's through a long hard fought endgame
2) If I draw, it's through a long hard fought endgame
3) If I lose, it's because I get beat in 10-20 moves by an opening trap/zap/tactic.
It's in particular number 3 that peeves me off. I would tolerate losing ...[text shortened]... rning to the outside for help now, because I can't seem to fix it by myself. PLEASE HELP! HELP!
Allowing the opponents knights too close without having a good reason to allow them to stay in close (ie a more important attack of my own).
Wrongly assuming a huge swop will leave me in a better position for the endgame
Somehow missing the obvious, ie look at this horror of ignorance happened very recently (in a clan league game so I let the whole team down!):
Game 811457
You won't change from feeling bad but (and this is also me reminding myself...which I have to constantly do) its more important to learn than to win and lossing is an excellent lesson, so you have to take a balance view and remember your wins also.
I think Mateulose has done the rapid chess improvement thing of de la Maza. He's done the ctarts thing too. He's like Hamlet, except he's haunted by the queen instead of the king. At any moment the queen turns up and M. starts to sweat. Strange things begin to happen. His pieces fall off the board, his plans turn to mush.
Seriously, Mateulose has a point. Are there any databases for dumb games out there? They're all filled with master games. They don't have the stupid little opening traps I and others are prone to fall into. I need a database of games by players who are unrated up to maybe 1600, maybe lower. Games by little girls who wear pig tails, games by old men who can no longer see the board properly, games by the institutionalized insane, games by hollywood actresses, games by my uncle, who thinks the one with the cross on its head is the queen. In short, the chess community should stop ignoring the mediocre, get off its fat **** and stop writing books, like Win With the Sveshnikov and write stuff like The Sicilian for the Stupid or Caro-Kahn for the Incompetent, The Dutch for Dummies. But I digress....
Originally posted by no1marauderI dont much care if he quits or not, he should be gagged. I rarely open his threads anymore and only opened this one to see if he ever took advice from people.
I think you're right; you should quit chess altogether. There are three reasons for this: 1) Chess is more of a system of thought than a game per se (it has no random elements) and you seem to have a myriad of psychological problems that prevent you from progreessing at the rate YOU insist on. As I pointed out to you elsewhere, your rating at R ...[text shortened]... e and RHP in particular, do us all a favor:
QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fankly I think everyone should just ignore him and he might go away.
Originally posted by buddy2Macbeth, I think you mean. While Hamlet was visited by his father (the ex king of Denmark), it was in a non-hostile manner.
I think Mateulose has done the rapid chess improvement thing of de la Maza. He's done the ctarts thing too. He's like Hamlet, except he's haunted by the queen instead of the king. At any moment the queen turns up and M. starts to sweat. Strange things begin to happen. His pieces fall off the board, his plans turn to mush.
Seriously, Mateulose has a p ...[text shortened]... ilian for the Stupid or Caro-Kahn for the Incompetent, The Dutch for Dummies. But I digress....
When you really look at it if you constantly fall for obvious traps and make stupid blunders then you don't really benefit from a database. First stop making those bad moves then use the database.
I also think you're misunderstanding the way a database is used. A database full of flawed games would be almost useless. I can look and see that every single person who played the Dragon lost in the database. There's nothing wrong with the opening however it just so happens that all the Dragon database games have blunders by black in them. What use is that to me?
No, i didn't mean Macbeth. He was haunted by his buddy Banquo. I was looking for an analogy to Mateulose's fear of the queen, only I couldn't think of any. Maybe somebody versed in Greek tragedy could. Anyhow, your statement "A database full of flawed games would be almost useless," doesn't sound right to me since all games that I can think of have flaws, otherwise who would win? I meant major blunders that occur time and time again. I could see a whole book on "Traps in the Sicilian." As a matter of fact, someone has. A.C. van der Tak & Friso Nijboer wrote a book called Tactics in the Chess Opening 1: Sicilian Defence, except those worthy gentlemen didn't cover the REAL common blunders in the Dragon, Taimanov, etc. Now, if I were around 1400-1500 and played the Dragon, that would be an invaluable defensive and offensive work for me. Works that cover master games simply don't mention the goofy little traps that lose pawns and pieces because they assume the reader knows them. For example, I just played a game OTB as black in the QG where white pushed to c5. Now I knew this was a mistake, but I couldn't give a clear line why and my opponent wouldn't believe me. So i came home and hit the books, three on the QG--nothnig. Fritz database nothing. I guess they assumed nobody would be dumb enough to push to c5. finally found it in Fine's Ideas Behind the Chess Openings. Two options: b6, if possible and e5 if possible. Make sure that at least one is possible or "the queenside bind" as Fine terms it will "sooner or later secure something tangible." An elementary book on the most common opening traps broken down by opening would be invaluable to a novice, and maybe an advanced player as well. I've see the Traps and Zaps books and don't like them. As I remember they were very disorganized and full of errors.
Originally posted by buddy2c5 is generally considered a bad idea in the QG because it seals the side where white hopes to gain an advantage.
No, i didn't mean Macbeth. He was haunted by his buddy Banquo. I was looking for an analogy to Mateulose's fear of the queen, only I couldn't think of any. Maybe somebody versed in Greek tragedy could. Anyhow, your statement "A database full of flawed games would be almost useless," doesn't sound right to me since all games that I can think of have ...[text shortened]... Zaps books and don't like them. As I remember they were very disorganized and full of errors.
Books showing common traps are fine and some people I'm sure would find them useful. However a database would not be as much help as you would think.