Rating should be the reflection of progress, rather than the outcome. I agree that setting yourself rating goals can be counterproductive.
That said, nebulous feelings like "I'm better at chess than I used to be" sadly can't be quantified.
For better or worse, a numerical rating system is the only demonstrable and ubiquitously agreed method to differentiate our skill from others.
You can mentally weather the storm with rating fluctuations, but ultimately it's simply impossible to ignore.
That said, nebulous feelings like "I'm better at chess than I used to be" sadly can't be quantified.
For better or worse, a numerical rating system is the only demonstrable and ubiquitously agreed method to differentiate our skill from others.
You can mentally weather the storm with rating fluctuations, but ultimately it's simply impossible to ignore.
Can you please provide an example of emotions helping decision making in chess?
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@artyom7 said in #23:
> Can you please provide an example of emotions helping decision making in chess?
It might be more about learning to make decisions. To guide hypothesis wheel, all cognition, even memory needs the emotional glue. It may also depends what one considers being an emotion. But for me the joy of getting new nugget of information in light of a small chess hypothesis I might be testing while playing, or while studying, is a carrot for the sustaining of my attention onto more chess board experiments, and theory building at my own small individual world of chess level, nibbling on the unknown that can be step wise controlled. It may sound false if never looked at with that angle.. our own small wheel of science. Curiosity might also be an emotion.. I don't know.. because it goes hand in hand with the small eureka drive, which is definitely an emotion.
but the blog author might have a more chess point of view closer to decision making in chess, more serious than my take. Or just better pin pointing. I don't know. I just think cognition without emotion does not really exist. or does not work very well. Maybe I am warped by my own type of cognition, high motivation dependent.
> Can you please provide an example of emotions helping decision making in chess?
It might be more about learning to make decisions. To guide hypothesis wheel, all cognition, even memory needs the emotional glue. It may also depends what one considers being an emotion. But for me the joy of getting new nugget of information in light of a small chess hypothesis I might be testing while playing, or while studying, is a carrot for the sustaining of my attention onto more chess board experiments, and theory building at my own small individual world of chess level, nibbling on the unknown that can be step wise controlled. It may sound false if never looked at with that angle.. our own small wheel of science. Curiosity might also be an emotion.. I don't know.. because it goes hand in hand with the small eureka drive, which is definitely an emotion.
but the blog author might have a more chess point of view closer to decision making in chess, more serious than my take. Or just better pin pointing. I don't know. I just think cognition without emotion does not really exist. or does not work very well. Maybe I am warped by my own type of cognition, high motivation dependent.
@aVague said in #20:
> I was around 1200 when I started, then I worked with Health very hard( it's actually very important, not high rating is mostly due some illnesses , that stops improvment and right thinking.
> I ve tried lot of herbs, Yoga, Mudras from Yoga , Chinses and all exersises, and could keep some level despite problems with health I have
damn
> I was around 1200 when I started, then I worked with Health very hard( it's actually very important, not high rating is mostly due some illnesses , that stops improvment and right thinking.
> I ve tried lot of herbs, Yoga, Mudras from Yoga , Chinses and all exersises, and could keep some level despite problems with health I have
damn
I don't fully understand the third point, "Improve your curiosity in chess". Can anyone please expound on what that means and how to do it?
Probably this means that setting adequate targets and reaching them would boost your motivation, and so on
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