Your rating is still provisional... it can jump very easily... Most of us actually have to work to stop losing pathetically. (now i only lose after a long boring fight)😳
Originally posted by MCA I have been playing for years but have never studied books or gone over my old games, so I am not surprised by my lack of progression.
Thankfully I only play for fun, so I supopose it doesn't matter wether I progress much or not 🙂
I guess your right, though I get a thrill out of watching my rating increase.
I also dont like getting crushed by someone otb and then he thinks his all that, so I practise. lol
I play chess, 50% for the fun of it, 50% for the competition of it.
Bobby Fischer man... don't quote me on this but he said something like "it's just you and the board, and you've got something to prove."... that's the whole of it, a bunch of guys trying to prove that their brain is that little bit better.
I seem to do worse the more I know heh. Actually I just need to get my groove back. I'm at another one of those stages where I feel like I'm teetering on the verge of getting better.
Originally posted by ih8sens Bobby Fischer man... don't quote me on this but he said something like "it's just you and the board, and you've got something to prove."... that's the whole of it, a bunch of guys trying to prove that their brain is that little bit better.
Thats what makes it so thrilling!
After loosing, twice to a guy at our school rated about 1400 in a weird opening, I came home and studied up on it, now I know what to start out with and what to plan once we play again.
I honestly think I'm almost a 1600 player.. when i play full game time controls i regularily draw against fritz and chessmaster (nothing special i know.. but a draw against the top programs impresses me).. yet on here.. i start playing good, then mid game i stop caring and make some stupid sacrifice just to spice the game up... ratings suck.
Originally posted by ih8sens I honestly think I'm almost a 1600 player.. when i play full game time controls i regularily draw against fritz and chessmaster (nothing special i know.. but a draw against the top programs impresses me).. yet on here.. i start playing good, then mid game i stop caring and make some stupid sacrifice just to spice the game up... ratings suck.