After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
@divegeestersaid After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
Congrats!! I really mean that. This is not a minor achievement. Start some tactics training. Get the completive fires burning. You can do this!! 🙂
@divegeestersaid After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
@mchillsaid Congrats!! I really mean that. This is not a minor achievement. Start some tactics training. Get the completive fires burning. You can do this!! 🙂
Thanks, appreciate that.
I am quite a competitive person but only in certain things and in certain ways. For example I will fight in every individual game of chess to win it, but I have never tried to improve my game by reading up or other means. I play for fun and for clan wins that’s it, wether or not I improve hasn’t really mattered.
In clan games if I’m at say 1100 then I just play someone at 1100 rather than someone at 1000, so it makes no real difference. In general terms what would I likely get to if I focused hard and put time in… 1200 maybe? I don’t know how much a person can improve their natural level by practice and effort.
So is all this chess rating just a bit of vanity really?
@kevin-elevensaid Quite brave of you. Congratulations!
I wouldn’t say “brave”, I wasn’t aware of summoning up any courage when I entered the tournament. I did have a slight sense of epiphany I suppose, a sort of “why didn’t I do this before” feeling.
@divegeestersaid After all the friendly, warm-hearted, well-meaning encouragement from my dear friend Very Rusty, I decided to try and improve my game by joining tourneys to get some variation in play and level.
Just won my first one.
I might read a chess book next!
You would have to take into consideration who the games were won against. That would give you a better idea of the real rating of the person won it. 🙂
EDIT: The gooster gives me for too much credit in giving him incentive. It was more like get up off your butt and do a some studying which would do you much better than what you are doing in here now.
@very-rustysaid You would have to take into consideration who the games were won against. That would give you a better idea of the real rating of the person won it. 🙂
EDIT: The gooster gives me for too much credit in giving him incentive. It was more like get up off your butt and do a some studying which would do you much better than what you are doing in here now.
-VR
it took the gooster 14 years to nail his first tourny win
will he live long enough to get a second 😢
@divegeestersaid I wouldn’t say “brave”, I wasn’t aware of summoning up any courage when I entered the tournament. I did have a slight sense of epiphany I suppose, a sort of “why didn’t I do this before” feeling.
Anyway thank you for your congratulations.
It takes some sort of courage, I think, and some sense of humour too. 🙂
25 May '22 09:37
Small tourney win
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