Chess is a competitive game, and tricks are part of it. Poker players are allowed to bluff to try to misread your opponent as to the cards you are holding, boxers are allowed to feint (fake punch) to mislead the opponent, baseball players are allowed to steal bases when the opposing team is distracted. Chess is not like a race where everyone must stay in the lane, it is a competitive one-on-one contest, and, as long as the rules are adhered to, no holds are barred.
Setting traps for the opponent to blunder into has always been allowed and is a central part of the game.
Your opponent did not violate the rules of the game, and did not make any moves that require superhuman calculating ability. Therefore your opponent was not cheating. You had plenty of ways to diffuse the quick attack and even get a slight advantage. That you did not do so is no one's fault but your own.
Did you really play chess for 50 years without setting a trap or having a trap set against you?
tricks and traps IS the game
Yikes. [snicker]
Guess what? My CAPTCHA was a bullet game's scholar's mate LOL
See, our friend can try some captchas in order to prevent scholars in the future.
"I once got beat by someone who said they were a 13 year old girl. I started playing chess 50 years ago how do you think that makes me feel to know I was beaten by a girl?"
I don't see why it matters. There are lots of kids who are extremely strong chess players. One my favorite streamers on the site is an 8 year old who has a 2400+ Lichess rating.
"What I don't understand is that I have a 110 IQ and I finished in the top 1% on the math SAT and went to the university of Maryland majoring in aerospace engineering at 17 years old so I obviously am not a stupid person so why am I not better at chess after playing for 50 years?"
Your skills won't improve if you don't study and practice. If you're just playing a game or two casually now and then, you wouldn't expect to see any improvement. The fact that you say you've been playing for 50 years but can't immediately recognize the Scholar's Mate certainly seems consistent with you not playing/practicing frequently.
"If I was able to beat out 99% of the people who took the math SAT test in 1975 I think I should be a much better chess player especially since I first started playing 50 years ago. So something just doesn't add up how could so many less intelligent people play chess better then me?"
None of this is really related to your ability as a chess player if you aren't actually playing.
The effect of IQ is going to be swamped by the effect of study and practice, especially at the lower rating levels. Likewise, if you learned to play the piano when you were a kid and play a few songs now and then for fun, you shouldn't expect to become a concert pianist. Also... on average chess players have higher IQs than the general population. So your IQ of 110 is fairly middle-of-the-road for a chess player.
"You would think I would be in the top 10% by now not in the middle of the pack with the rest of the rats. Maybe I need to learn chess tricks like you people since that is how you win games it seems don't out play your opponent trick them instead. "
That's... not how it works with any skill.
Hey look, Scholar's Mate on the Captcha :P