@Paul-jannik Congrats on the tournament win! From childhood heartbreak to triumph (and definitely not losing to any 11-year-olds ). Love how you can look back at that 5+0 tiebreaker pain with humor now. Winning your first OTB tournament is huge - time to celebrate!
@Forking-Horse Love the honesty! And hey, playing weaker players is a totally valid life strategy. At least your brain's self-aware about its horrible wrongness - that's already ahead of most of us
For All:
smile for yourself
love yourself
take yourself out for a walk...
it's a short life ,Do not force yourself to be perfect ... accept what you are .
chess is a game not the real life ....
finally ,
if you are addicted to chess wins then your brain may not be working well if you lose ..as you will take a decision you would never do in your normal state ...
Do not addict wins.. it's good to win but make sure to stay humble .. if you lose then at least you will learn something new about your chess style.
Take care about your mentality do not addict wins cause after your first lose your brain will be out of control.
Beautiful. One lesson chess taught me was never to give up
I don't have much crowd supporting my chess, neither do I have a chess fanbase, and people saying I can do it that much. Chess taught me never to give up, that if I do give up it'd be proving them right and me wrong(and I hate being wrong)
One thing that made me fall in love with chess, was after straight 5 losses, 2 heated crying sessions, a back pain that gave me a fever, I still felt good. The pain, the tears, the losses made chess even more beautiful for me.
I think I'd forever love chess and keep playing it, Always and forever.
I totally feel you. The same happened to me too! That‘s the pain every chess player needs to feel, but on the other hand, exactly that is what makes chess unique! U wouldn‘t get that in any other sport, it causes mental pain, but it still is the thing that keeps the passion alive in my opinion. Everybody learns by mistakes, and personally, having a bad tournament motivates me even more to come back stronger! Who can relate? Btw.: nice blog, its actually the first one i read, but by now, its the best as well :-D Keep the good work up!
@ct_forreal said in #45:
> I totally feel you. The same happened to me too! That‘s the pain every chess player needs to feel, but on the other hand, exactly that is what makes chess unique! U wouldn‘t get that in any other sport, it causes mental pain, but it still is the thing that keeps the passion alive in my opinion. Everybody learns by mistakes, and personally, having a bad tournament motivates me even more to come back stronger! Who can relate?
me, but you arent a titled player
Got smashed by a 11-year old in a rated game, in an important team match being 2200 myself .
Admittedly, he was over 2100, and already FM when he was 13, but still it was a mind job
Wonderful blog
@rio2018 said in #9:
> I think for me, the worst loss i had when i was around 1850, i played in a really important tournament first round, and i played against a 1560 player, i won a queen for 2 pawns, and i lost the game 40 moves after, and i didnt blunder, i just played badly and slowly lost all my adventage. The only time i wanted to quit a tournament.
@rio2018 said in #9:
> I think for me, the worst loss i had when i was around 1850, i played in a really important tournament first round, and i played against a 1560 player, i won a queen for 2 pawns, and i lost the game 40 moves after, and i didnt blunder, i just played badly and slowly lost all my adventage. The only time i wanted to quit a tournament.
The only time I ever wanted to quit a tourney was when I was 1500 uscf I had a bad day and drew 2 1000s. I kept playing and now Im almost 1800 uscf
I play at the Marshall, so losing to 12 year olds is a weekly occurrence for a lowly ~2000 like me. No shame in it although chess kids can be SO annoying