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Topic	I've started trying to learn to play chess again.
Mario_VS_DK 03/31/18 4:18:31 AM #8:	FellWolf posted... I play on chess dot com. My daily rating is currently 1300 but my blitz is abyssmal. I just recently started playing again. I've been watching a lot of videos and trying to get better but I'm at the stage where I feel like I'm getting worse because I am trying too hard to apply things and make mistakes. Yeah, that's where I'm playing too. I'm right around 1000 rating, but I expect it to drop once I play a few more games. I kind of got what I felt was lucky in a couple of my wins. I stumbled across a video of some grandmasters playing too, and hoooly. Some of their moves were absolutely mind blowing to me. Also some things were straight up confusing to me, like not taking a bishop with a piece that currently isn't doing anything else when there is nothing threatening to take the piece that would take it. It's really weird. I'll probably seek out some actual videos and strategy guides once I get more of a feel for the game though. Lokarin posted... I have recently gotten back into Chess, but I'm terrible - I play at about 1200 It's OK. We can be terrible together. LinkPizza posted... I played when I was younger. I was terrible then, and I'm still terrible now... Same, man. Same. blorfenburger posted... My friend and I play and it's stupid and weird. And funny. Sometimes I forget things, I don't always know what to do, and I always make dumb risky moves. I'd say I win 40% of the time Yeah. I kind of tunnel on what I think will pin something down and forget that it leaves me open to something else. Lost a game at turn 6 or 7 today cause of that. TheCyborgNinja posted... Oh, man. I remember there was this coffee place that had chess and stuff and my buddy and I used to meet there sometimes. These nerds on par with the ones from Wayne's World ("isn't it cool to be downtown!") were having this loud discussion in their nasally voices. One dude was telling the other about this girl he was obviously in love with (that clearly had no interest in him), and all I specifically remember from their discussion was him brushing off being shot down as "she's just going through her 'bad girl' phase right now" - we were trying not to eavesdrop, but they were so fucking loud and only about 4 feet away. Both of us just burst out laughing full volume at that line and then were like "oh, shit"... But yeah, that's apparently what you talking about chess made me think of. Hehe. Decent story. I sure wish I had somewhere like that to go though. --- How often do people read this? <cite>Mario_VS_DK posted [p:898807408] in I've start... [t:76470638]...</cite> <quote><cite>FellWolf posted...</cite> <quote>I play on chess dot com. My daily rating is currently 1300 but my blitz is abyssmal. I just recently started playing again. I've been watching a lot of videos and trying to get better but I'm at the stage where I feel like I'm getting worse because I am trying too hard to apply things and make mistakes.</quote> Yeah, that's where I'm playing too. I'm right around 1000 rating, but I expect it to drop once I play a few more games. I kind of got what I felt was lucky in a couple of my wins. I stumbled across a video of some grandmasters playing too, and hoooly. Some of their moves were absolutely mind blowing to me. Also some things were straight up confusing to me, like not taking a bishop with a piece that currently isn't doing anything else when there is nothing threatening to take the piece that would take it. It's really weird. I'll probably seek out some actual videos and strategy guides once I get more of a feel for the game though. <cite>Lokarin posted...</cite> <quote>I have recently gotten back into Chess, but I'm terrible - I play at about 1200</quote> It's OK. We can be terrible together. <cite>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote>I played when I was younger. I was terrible then, and I'm still terrible now...</quote> Same, man. Same. <cite>blorfenburger posted...</cite> <quote>My friend and I play and it's stupid and weird. And funny. Sometimes I forget things, I don't always know what to do, and I always make dumb risky moves. I'd say I win 40% of the time</quote> Yeah. I kind of tunnel on what I think will pin something down and forget that it leaves me open to something else. Lost a game at turn 6 or 7 today cause of that. <cite>TheCyborgNinja posted...</cite> <quote>Oh, man. I remember there was this coffee place that had chess and stuff and my buddy and I used to meet there sometimes. These nerds on par with the ones from Wayne's World ("isn't it cool to be downtown!") were having this loud discussion in their nasally voices. One dude was telling the other about this girl he was obviously in love with (that clearly had no interest in him), and all I specifically remember from their discussion was him brushing off being shot down as "she's just going through her 'bad girl' phase right now" - we were trying not to eavesdrop, but they were so fucking loud and only about 4 feet away. Both of us just burst out laughing full volume at that line and then were like "oh, shit"... But yeah, that's apparently what you talking about chess made me think of.</quote> Hehe. Decent story. I sure wish I had somewhere like that to go though. --- How often do people read this?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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