A Game Within A Game

What's fun in an exhibition game(a game without ratings at stake) played for practice a game within a game can be played. When an opponent has little or no hope for a win the dominant player offers a draw, what is there for the player about to lose do? Take it much to his surprise a player about to lose would go for such an offer I know I have; a draw beats an almost certain death! Rather than winning an exhibition game offering a draw and having it accepted makes me feel better than winning. Is it a show of mercy? Maybe it is maybe not if both parties can go away happy then such a drawl trumps a victory in my mind, this is the feeling.

More Yelling Please Not Enough

My son doesn't hear his father yelling enough with the thrill of victory since of course I understand from Joe Montana the phrase I hate to lose more than I like winning which he commented on the air when I asked him if he felt he had to win when he was behind in a game with minutes sometimes seconds left in the game and my question was what goes on in his head when faced with this pressure of not liking to lose over that of winning. Well I was face with a player an opponent who was talking or chatting as we played the intimidation or distraction did not break my concentration as so often it should not. Whatever the case I pulled a win out for a fifteen point gain rather than a twenty point lost to an opponent close to my ratings. It wound up toe to toe but in the confusion of all the excitement I asked myself if i had any gas left any fuel. I do know right now I could use a good nap. See you!

Bouncing Back From The Little Big Dip

I thought you might like that phrase it is kind of catchy. The big dip sounds like an economic dooms day in history will it is true if you consider life as a chess board. No big dips allowed here let alone even a little dip. If only I could have my way. The technique of taking a break following a series of loses may be working as it is like breaking up the rhythm of a downward spiral and getting a grip upon myself from falling into a bad situation namely a slump. I do play better in the afternoons with a caffeine pill or two and rested up feeling ready willing and able and no not like I thought where one had to refrain from....never mind. I know what I mean one day I'll tell.

The Offer For Mercy

When clearly leading the seemingly winner to be offers to draw or offers a tie to be the final result of the game which is a mercy offer both parties can go about their merry way the dominant player needs not to prove anything but a showing of compassion or mercy to end the game unless the underdog wishes to fight on a battle which has little hope amidst the battle worn fight. Tell me this isn't adventure. Being close to having an off my winning streak ways I've elected to play a few non rated games my exhibition games for the practice but also to do well if I can without the risk of running down my chess ratings and suffering this depression as a result. No one likes to lose just as no one seeks out depression only a sick little mind would elect or desire depression.

No Foul Language Here

My blog no matter what the news must maintain standards as frustrating the loses can be. A polished blog on check makes a statement as if to say there is pride in this activity defeat can be overshadowed by victory and if there is not enough victory another activity of worth is always around chess is not the only game around maybe for Bobby Fischer it was but not for me. He was good it was all he had to make a mark in this world of chess the Bobby man fishing for a win and now you know why he was called the Fischer man oh please that was clever a pun made by a recreational writer who writes the stories for fun. If Jesus Christ preached without having to file a tax form or in other words worked at teaching others the religion of his choice or mind then let me have my fun. Instead of going off and seeking to gain revenge after a loss blindly I must regroup and think things through the blind rage is just that a vengeance filled with emotion without intelligence or logic confidence rather than blind rage for victory is seldom a winning way. Reading quotations from Bobby Fischer is very entertaining if not inspirational. It is about the game of chess.

Can't Get No Satisfaction

And it wasn't fun either but I saved the downfall of a plummeting chess rating by playing games for no ratings. Therefore I've saved what I can salvage of a 1213 or whatever number it is from falling from a needless slump of like numerous lost games under a ratings games kind of thing.
I will play rated games when I know my best games are ahead of me.

In The Zone Not A Everyday Occurance

As up for a game in my prime time hour of the later day of afternoon being in the zone did not happen but I did luck out got a free be when my opponent in the second game opted out and abandoned the game in the early second quarter giving me back the points I lost in the first game. It is just a game tragedy does not pend on these games please remember that Bob. I'm talking to myself I'm just plain nuts. And this engine search give me responses I talk to it and I can get positive feedback. But I did not play rated games one after another in the mornings and I did not lose eight games in a row. The change up did my ego better even though the practice time is less I don't mind not driving down my ratings down to the depths of a depth so low a deep sea explorer diver cannot find it.

I Took On A 1450 Rated Player!

It is an ungodly hour at three in the morning and the good news is that I had just beaten a much higher rated player than I fair and square neither of us made blunders we just went toe to toe at it and I a lowly 1178 rated player crushed my opponent played him with my strength forced him into submission and took him on when he challenged me I took him on because I had nothing to lose everything to gain don't like playing the long shot players unless it is for practice and no points are involved I'm confusing you sorry but chess is a very dicey manner of way superstition or favorite options are our ways. My concentration was okay good enough relaxed enough the coffee did me fine otherwise I would have lost caffeine or coffee is my performance enhancing drug it gets me there sometimes. I'm smiling a big one now. This game was mine I had my name written all over it I know somewhere in my mind there is capability to improve at this chess game that is if I choose to make this game fun and systems all point to go. Doom and gloom go away never come back and never stay just let me go forward and have my happy way look my hair doesn't even look gray. I'm fading out now the rated games come later when I'm fully awake

Morning Into The Noon And Night

These are the times my practice times are done the past few weeks or so I may be way off but to the best of my knowledge these are the times. The difference is these games are for real not exhibition games but games that count for ratings. If I can improve some then the ratings naturally will go up the proof is in the numbers. It seems like I've been playing these games forever and I have pretty much without the benefit of seeing my ratings going anywhere but down. It shouldn't be this way. I'm at a ridiculously low rating of 1171 very low for me. I'm tired which is a good way to drop the ratings playing chess while tired that will get a poor soul in plenty of trouble. A power nap is in short order I'm already there.

Rated Games Galore

It's no longer nerves so much as it is being callous to my approach to the game having plowed into these chess games head first without regard to the cost of expending points mostly lost than gained. Instead of improving I'm getting worst despite the extra time and effort I'm putting in so far. Why is that? I will investigate after all the purpose is to have fun not to play to lose and get depress.

If It Isn't Fun Anymore Quit

I am quitting. I'm wiped out. It was a six game in a row slump I can do no right waiting for the session where I can do no wrong. Plus my leg left one is at that discomfort stage not a good indicator for a good game of chess. I'm speechless no speeches for this bad news. Oh the good news is that it is just a game. I'm glad to know that. It is the ungodly hour of the morning I was up all morning into the dead of night not my finest hours but I was being kept busy however no primal yelling and fist pumping for victory all last night that will have to come around another time and it will....next time.

There is some popularity of rap why not I really hated it but I can imitate it as it is a good omen like it or not. Yes that last line was pretty wordy my hope and dreams for a Pulitzer prize for literature is out the door.

Anyhow don't you show me no pity living in the city getting down and feeling gritty I'm not looking so pretty the talk of the riots is among us don't read into my next word there is no meaning to the word ditty I just used it because it rhymes don't tell me I'm not trying to be witty.
The last game of chess was played I'm now out to pasture in a fade there is no king or a queen not even a pawn just look out for the riot the cops are ready to raid.

Ratings Go See And Saw The See Saw Syndrome

That was a mouthful of a title. The journal of an online chess player who could see no further in competition than the ratings of a beginner yes that is putting it bluntly. I'll maybe just maybe pull out of a slump for a weak minded winning streak win a few good games rating around 1229 or even beat a 1400 player fair and square on a skilled level and not just by luck all the time. It's better to listen to the news now I'm reiterating Joe Montana I hate to lose more than I like winning so why am I playing this game? It's a game of life I suppose it has drama and the joy of winning and the sorrow of losing it can be that simple. The last two losing games cost me plenty in points losing to lower rating players. It is a see your ratings sawed into smaller numbers you see it only for it later for it to become the see saw syndrome. It is the highs and the lows no one stays on top of the high forever unless one is crazy.

The New Kid On The Block

It isn't funny. The new kid on the block can be the hip hop man of all talent of the block the test is on line the games play I don't take them lightly they are waiting to go off on me torture me and shed my game into dust. It's very competitive you should see what happen to me when I was naive and stumbled into a 1600 player a rare sight for me to see having come from few if far between chess players. I was creamed, blown away, devastated, crushed and destroyed by an unsuspected ringer skilled in chess I have never seen and yes I will name names his name is Edgar Mapoy. I felt horrible after having been beaten up in chess as if I was hit by a train and lived to feel the pain. The provisional player are the kind I normally like to play right away without hesitating since they are rookies some quite excellent players but many are rookies and new without experience. To make a long story short I blew him away I hope he's okay I'm not callous although it is easy to be this way. Competition in chess can be brutal.