Nerves

Have you ever been nervous? It happens to me every time I play a rated game of chess. I just played a rated game and so I shall relate my experiences of the things that make me a bundle of nerves. Playing humans do it to me in chess. I don't mind losing to a chess playing computer but a human who plays me in chess close to my level of chess can easily do it to me.

Speaking to a talk show host use to do it to me but after some years of doing it I became use to going before a large audience on the radio and giving my best in my opinion concerning a news topic of discussion. But in the beginning golly moses I was so nervous I couldn't speak straight enough. This is common for many of talk show callers new to the show. By now you would think that I could get use to playing on line chess against other humans but no my threshold for tolerance is or has not been reached; I get so wound up and crazy! Whether I can get use to it and hold my own and not get nervous remains to be seen. Some things one can never get use to like the fear of heights looking over the rails or gates atop of the Grand Canyon for instance where falling is within the odds. Watch out always!