Let The Games Begin

The worst slump to date known as latter day June slump made me look silly and down on my rump take a doctor's hammer and tap my reflexes no need for a thump I've enough problems with my walk I'd like to be younger with a jump no need for a head bump cash is preferred payable in a lump otherwise I'd be down in the dumps as sick as a dog with the mumps.

In other words the games may commence the slump cannot so far cause me to quit I will continue to play I must never forsake my whit it is not my job to report from the bottom of a pit look if you want me I'll go to law school to further explain a writ I'm just talking yes yes take my......

Busted!

I bragged the bubble broke the winning streak shattered. Oh well I keep telling you the mornings aren't mine. My opponent didn't blunder neither did I to my knowledge it wound up a drawl and because he was lower rated I lost ten points. The day isn't over it has only begun. Opponent has nothing but a losing track record rated 1010 or there about he doesn't beat anyone of significance yet my game was too weak to do anything at this time in the morning.....too too bad.

Playing The Rated Games

It is now so common no need to hide behind the Exhibition Games anymore of late I've been playing so many rated games per day I'm getting so use to them that nerves galore is a feeling of yesterdays a moment of history. Times have changed maybe a new name for my blog should take place like Winning Galore or some good name for a chess blog. Please no brag I know this isn't good for things do come crashing down when bragging and we don't need this do we now? Of course not. It's also true that there is no need for a loser and a drunken boozer trapped in the body of an alleged chess player what we need is results for a change up!

The Winning Streak

I hate it when this winning streak bursts. It need not have to happen. Then a kind of depression moves in this is quite unfortunate and it does not need to happen. There ought to be a law against this type of practice. And it is a perfectly good waste of time seeing all the hard work come crashing down in a furry of this downward spiral called the slump. Pray with me a little prayer as I do when the game is in the verge of a let down owed to the bad guys namely the opponent.

It's All An Act

Another day in a slump. Nothing works too many loses. Drama didn't escape. But even while losing many games I was able to play act impersonating a Japanese soldier during a losing battle to the last man refusing to resign but in the end drawing my dagger in my final moments saying death before dishonor my life will end here but in my next life it will be better. This is classic Japanese military custom when nothing short of defeat is acceptable death is preferred over dishonor and so I my little sword act but my opponent could only watch my words probably in disbelief. Let the games begin and let them end. A poor soul can get carried away too easily playing these silly games don't you think mate? Check mate!

Up All Night The UnGodly Hours

Some people just don't like chess period. Yes it is just a game the roller coaster ride it is you get high when you win some good ones and you go down for a drop when the bad loses take you for a loop. I wasn't worried about any insomnia I just played my heart out without any caffeine or any stimulant winning two games losing two and drawing a game all in all it was entertaining I got my money's worth of entertainment.

I'm using this mouse which attaches to this new laptop Mac Book which is remarkably an improvement now I can't cry how slow I am in comparison to what I was before this new mouse runs the game much faster probably accounting for my being awake all night all morning long playing with this new mouse son and wife got me for father's day it even makes up for the hate letter and obscene phone call I received yesterday. And this mouse is affordable it didn't take an arm and a leg! What else will the Chinese manufacture?

Oh My God

I won! The odds were against me this player was the kind of player I would duck and run for cover choosing the lower rated players for a better shot of winning. No one wanted to play me anymore as I waited and long time for a player to come along so I chose this higher rated player just to get in a game but I knew doom and gloom was lurking after the game was over. He had me against the ropes as we went toe to toe eye ball to eye ball down the stretch my back to the ropes getting a pounding and a beating I was desperate and looking around for mercy from this beating and torture until this fantasy I had about my queen and bishop working in unison to defray the onslaught of the opposing queen. To make a long story short trickery of some sort of miracle I drew my dagger from beneath my belt and swung with a thrust into the heart of my opponent just as he was about to chop my head off and my opponent was slayed check mated to my stunning disbelief I assassinated his queen by checking his king and his queen with my queen if he saw it he would have captured my queen with his but he didn't see it coming he must have been blinded by the excitement and confusion of the game. We chess players live for this day and life does go on for me at least today.

Is It Over?

The slump is it over? It always comes back if you believe it then welcome to the gates of hell the nightmare is part of life a counter balance to the heavens heaven on earth must be matched with the hell part too. In my wild eye fantasy I will be the new ruler and new Emperor of all of China a new world to be a world of shiny super world structure a superpower of all nations glorified...oh sorry I must be losing it again just having a fit of delusions don't mind me. It Never Takes A Genius is my other blog which explains how it is okay not to be a high achiever a full and happy life does not necessarily mean you have to be a star or a celebrity or even accomplished. Marty Nemko the brain and the career guidance radio talk show host planted these seeds in my mind. Just be what you can be is what he meant I think. I got smeared by a low rated 1200 player but yes sir not to worry it is only a game from the mind and words of Marty Nemko true words of wisdom I say.

No Tunes No Game

The tunes I tried to play on my musical keyboard now and yesterday wasn't working for me. For one reason or another as I mentioned last Monday several days ago or less I wrote of the tunes if they could be played reasonable to my satisfaction/gratification then my chess game results would match. But it will come around soon I'd say.

Doomed

Trying to concentrate on a full stomach after a regular dinner doesn't cut it. Roberta Duran did that in a major prize boxing match in the epic match against Sugar Ray Leonard only to throw in the towel in the early rounds exclaiming he had eaten a steak before the match and was too bloated to move and fight. And then there was this wife of mine yelling and screaming at her sister Tracy for calling at the house all the time and pestering her. This can spoil a poor fellow in his concentration in a game of chess. Chalk up a lost the game was doomed from the get go next game. I had hoped for a seven or six game winning streak one of my all time highs but no it was not to happen this night.

Ducking The Grandmasters

If I choose not to play them the higher rated players. I can do this. When I played twenty five games of rated games I was taking on all comers. There's no magical formula in advancing through the ranks and climbing into higher ratings but all the things it takes anyone to advance into a particular field is what it is. This may sound awkward but when one thinks about it the logic follows. Playing twenty five rated games of chess in one day from my position was like hell in eternal damnation. My system was overloading and the engine search said to slow down take a break overloading would do me no good.

The Tune In Harmony With Real Chess Success

Success with the tunes produce the moves of the game why I do not know I've no ideal but when the tunes come down in harmony and song my chess game can do me no wrong.

Bump The Slump

It isn't fun....period. I'm not out of it yet. The break from playing twenty five games in one day has commence. I see glimmers of chess games being played with a passion glamorized with a fashion.
It will come but when that is the question.

The Worst Slump

Too many games in a day a record breaker and nothing is going down well but nothing. Being accused of a crime by Ben Pen is by far worst but this is the worst chess game slump I say little doubt I can't cite statistics with records but the feeling of losing too many games and driving down my ratings is evident. The opponent who last played me was beating me up so bad and he wasn't that good just a week ago my rating was higher but I'm rated now lower than I have been .....never mind that is what people say when the bad news is unbearable. Here is a crazy ideal. Superstition could work for me. No I better not go there I wouldn't want to be accused of putting out spam. This could be the day I give up playing chess for good like I did tennis. I've long since given up playing tennis on a regular basis. I will remember Johnny McEnroe who said if tennis stops being fun then don't do it thus the same for any activity don't do it if it isn't fun anymore.

Intirigue

As ugly and too early in the morning for me it is, intrigue cannot elude me. Where to I begin to tell the story of my game? Make no doubt about it for me the game was highly entertaining amusing to be sure. Opponent definitely was a challenge. I had him backed up against the ropes in every way and all the way his rating over 1320 or there about higher than my rating of 1230. I had him in my grips his king retreating all the way back into my domain my turf with his queen trapped sitting there lame only for it to make one last move in unison with it's fleeing retreating king to checkmate my well secured well guarded king tucked away and a highly protected corner of the board no one was going to get to my king until.....

Play Chess For Ratings And For The Buzz

A buzz gets me there getting use to it happens although the nervous feeling is there more often than not. The past week or more months I don't know all I know is that day and night with breaks I'm on line this time playing more rated games than before. My ratings have dropped some but I can handle it playing while tired usually is a sign that the ideal situation lacking can easily doom one's effort at playing chess. But the life of a chess player it is day and night month to month to year to year and decade to decade the game goes on. Chess will allow me to apply the principles of logic and skill reasoning and repeated practices of the angles and patterns of life situations and circumstances. Good karma will come to me and that of my family knowing when to apply life's strategy based on the principles of playing chess.

The Quick Win Dares To Risk The Gamble

That was a mouthful. But it does work this way. The quick win poses a higher risk for a lost. I was zeroing in for a fast win it pays off sometimes while this time I almost lost the game struggled long and hard if it went any longer I would have tired out and lost the needed concentration. The German invading forces into Russia made such an attempt but got bogged down in the bitter sub zero freezing temperatures their machinery and vehicles rendered useless during the second world war. The turning point for German victory ended there or rather the Russians from there on turned the German killing machine back. The battle for Stalingrad was blood on my hands. Okay I got carried away what has chess to do with real war? You would be surprised.

Blurry Eyed Playing Chess

To think from now generations down the line if there are any great great and so forth grandsons or grand daughters they can know me through the written word. Chess is a very respectable game whether I do well at it is just a guess probably not but I'm spending the time. I'm playing the serious rated games now my ratings went down since there is this adjustment to the controls of this new Apple Mac Book computer I need to learn. Yesterday I was playing mostly rated games but thirteen games in one day is more than most people I know play. Yes it's just a game as I wrote my last rites or words in the end of game considered somber and quiet and seriously for thinkers calculating patterns and routes of this pieces now powered by computers. No I'm not saying this correctly. I'm being too elementary if I am to get better as a player my mental capacities for problem solving should become more sophisticated. It doesn't look like I'm headed that way. When a chess player loses a game he dies within and becomes born again only to start another one.

Bobby Fischer On Life Is A Chess Board

Life is a chess board Bobby Fischer once said. I say it too. Can I make a comment please? Thank you thank you very much. The more I play the game the more I can see this is true. Life is a chess board. Interesting that the Far East people of China have shown interest in the western game of chess. I'm not feeling terrific or it's just past the ungodly hours into the morning I'm on line playing these chess games this morning I've played some four or five games already and I suppose the caffeine and PD pills kicked in I was walking normal and looking and feeling alert enough. So far I have not lost but I sure do get nervous especially the last game my PD medication was wearing off my hand was shaking I was in waking no this time I wasn't faking my malady includes aching my opponent was cutting my throat I could only hang on before I thrust my dagger into his heart before he could slay me first. We were worthy opponents of one another. The suspense was killing me. And now you have it please go on with your life you are no longer in my control.

Dare To Lose

It happened very recently the losing streak was killing me. My ratings so proud of was being driven down like my own house was on fire a lost too great and a bitter lost in pride. Even though I won just now over a 1098 player in lightning speed my day dreaming mode is on the on and the next game could drag me down to a death and drowning too terrible to imagine. I've been through a hell losing depresses me but I am an optimist I will return to victory as I have so often done before. I will not accept defeat

Dare To Lose

You would think I would listen and follow my own advice but this lost didn't make my day yes I will get over it in a hurry but yes I was right my confidence is just not there but like an idiot I went ahead despite my losing track record for today and played a rated game lost 26 points of ratings from a 1283 to 1254 or there about my math calculations are as poor as my chess calculations at least for today. The math isn't important neither is the lost. I shall return as a victor; winning again as I do is important there will be no turning back but only one way the winning way. Oh my Lord this is only a game.

No Feeling No Confidence

Not today says my inner self there is nothing to gain but further grief and lost I will not play a rated game any time soon this day if any at all the confidence isn't here. If I can't do well in my exhibition games or games for no ratings then I will not do it period. Probably not today. I'm better off trying to power nap and getting up and off to doing anything productive like whatever works for human kind. Get a load of me the philosopher.

The Brain Drain

This is when I play what I call in my own words the exhibition chess games when it doesn't count when or lose in football the same thing a game win or lose a meaningless game but just for practice and to get a feel for where you are. In online chess there is no such thing as a regular chess season the games are played all year round pick and choose the games to count and those games for the feel of the game that don't count. The last few days since the some ten game rating games that counted I decided rightfully so not to play for ratings. The feel for my best performance just isn't there. However the feel can come around at any given time. The question is well do I have the feel right now? Well....do I? Go ahead Bob(that's me) and make my day. I'm talking to myself I must be nuts. The last line stolen or borrowed from Clint Eastwood.

It Was A Fine Enough Kind Of Day

No I'm not writing a song. But yesterday was okay I would say it was a very good day had I played way over my head but it was okay some wins were coming in better days have happened. This Apple Mac Book ought to do the job. I do know playing chess in the mornings is a good time to get crushed one of those games already happened. Even though I'm only rated 1286 a rating for advanced beginners take look at some of these players with some four to six thousand games of chess behind them these are not first day beginners. It takes time to accumulate that many hours of chess games a year at least at ten games per day that's what I did yesterday but every day? I don't think so not for me. Whether today can remain productive remains unknown.

A New Beginning A New Apple Computer

This new equipment will give me an advantage over the old broken down controls and speed up my time steering will have a wheel a steering wheel so to speak thus the game of chess will go on for better hopefully than for the worst and our computer needs will be better met. I need to know about the heaven on earth the hell....well....hell isn't any fun is it? I don't think so.