Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperYour "issue" with temper and chess is pretty common. A key question is: How do you use your anger? Do you channel it into further study and a commitment to improve? or Do you just stay mad?
I'm poor loser. Something about losing at chess that drives me absolutely mad. If I lose at cards I can care less, it's all in good fun. But there's something about losing a chess match that I tend to take personal.
Playing online I've actually made mild, but snide remarks when I make a major blunder. It's horrible sportsmanship and I'm going t ...[text shortened]... ose, but sometimes I don't know what comes over me.
Has anyone else dealt with this?
If I ever do get a bit miffed it is never at my opponent but at myself.That goes for chess or any sport.
I can't even fathom the mind set to be angry at my opponent for beating me out fair and square in any form of competition.
Racing,arm wrestling,boxing,chess,you name it.
All it tells me is I was unprepared or simply outclassed.
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooperI think it was Rubinstein who stood on his chair during a tournament game and cried, "Why must I lose to this idiot?"
I'm poor loser. Something about losing at chess that drives me absolutely mad. If I lose at cards I can care less, it's all in good fun. But there's something about losing a chess match that I tend to take personal.
Playing online I've actually made mild, but snide remarks when I make a major blunder. It's horrible sportsmanship and I'm going t ...[text shortened]... ose, but sometimes I don't know what comes over me.
Has anyone else dealt with this?
And Alekhine, when the adjournment envelope was opened to reveal that his opponent had sealed a winning move, resigned with his usual grace: he threw his king across the room.
As long as you don't do stuff like that....
Originally posted by nimzo5That's also true of backgammon, which is why one writer called it "The Cruelest Game." It lends itself to self deception.
I don't think you need to beat yourself up for getting mad for losing a game of internet chess - unless you move from yelling at the screen to actually typing insults.
the reason poker is so profitable compared to chess is that players can make the same mistakes over and over and be able to pass it off as bad luck.
I went into my first OTB tournament with the attitude that I was going to rack up a lot of points and show everyone what a prodigy I was. Unfortunately, I blundered my way out of a won position during my first game. I was so angry that I wasn't able to think objectively for the rest of the day, and I paid for it by getting no points out of four games..
No I go into games with a different attitude, where a loss in a sense is a valuable learning opportunity because I get to see what aspects of my game I need to work on. I want to see the flaws in my ideas so I can eliminate them.
Thanks, Thabtos! You have really given me a great way to take the hurting edge off losing a game in chess. It's actually a discovery, a way to strengthen a weakness in playing chess, a way to move on to playing better chess and enjoying it more. Kind of like making lemonade when you've produced a lemon. Aloha, Vincent
It was Nimzovitch who screamed.
"Why must I lose to this IDIOT!?"
This apparently has been stated by the idiot in question, one Friedrich Samisch.
I'm not 100% convinced it happened. Chess is full of myths, this one has
so many different versions, it may have been Nimzovitch simply saying;
"I felt like jumping on the table and shouting ""Why must I lose to this idiot?"
Anyway here is the game that apparently caused Nimzovitch to vent.
Nimzo the 'table top dancer' is Black.
It does look lke a grudged delayed resination.
Though playing on to be shown the win was not uncommon in them days.
Originally posted by greenpawn34It's possible that Saemisch may have been short of time- I read somewhere that he was chronically in time pressure.
[Nimzo the 'table top dancer' is Black.
It does look lke a grudged delayed resination.
Though playing on to be shown the win was not uncommon in them days.