The Winning Streak Comes And It Goes

It came but dissipated. It slowly descended but as I've been saying all along it normally comes back into swing it always does. If it doesn't then plan B follows which is another activity always follows no matter what I can do no wrong will follow if such an optimistic look on life is ever held dear and to our hearts. Life does go on. I think I was on an eleven winning streak chess statistic the longest to date with more perhaps to come it all depends on the Gods of chess I never said I loved the game it's just a game there are more important things in life than a game of chess. These are words for the wise for those are are far wiser than myself. They will be here to teach me the right ways it is not I who preach as if I were in position to do so. I'm not up on my streak but a three game downward spiral where it stops nobody knows it ought to stop here the controls are at my ready ready or not play another one another time from the lot. Can't you see the poetry in motion and an end to the beast that tries to feast yes a monster cluttered with the grease my mission is to seek peace in winning for the very least.

The Moves Of A 1244 Player

His moves were one I do not have experience with having blocked my black bishop left flank from it's normal course of sacrificing itself plus I was prevented from castling when his queen and bishop came down to knock off my red bishop and threaten my positions with his queen. Normal course of action or moves were altered due to his apparently right and proper moves all regular moves were put on hold innovation was the only thing left or I would be slaughter to the pigs. I tried positioning my king closer to a castling like result or formation but never had the time except move my king closer to my right flank. It's a killer heat wave outside and in the homes without air conditioning further inland. My mind is gone no new chess games for me at this immediate time.

It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood

Mr. Rogers in the television series would sing the lyrics to this song but he has long since died. But after struggling with indigestion and my inability to walk without a struggle has passed I'm in the driver's seat and the sunny days and calm make me glad I'm not caught up in a storm of any magnitude and enjoying the peace and the calm of a lazy afternoon. My last game of chess was not bogus I suppose I was putting the move on a 1234 rated player I normally duck too competitive for me but found myself moving up in ratings after a nine game winning streak please no brag it's just one of those things I've been talking about nothing new just a by product so to speak of an event that was bound to be due.

Threw My Opponent For A Loop

I had him a 1237 higher rated player in an exhibition game beat he knew it I knew it but I offered him a draw and without hesitation he grabbed it why not I say? Expect the unexpected I say without sacrificing yourself. This digital camera is a fun instrument of recording a tool toward pictures in the modern era. There will be other activities besides chess movements. There is more to life than chess much much more to life.

Waiting For The Moment

The moment isn't here although it is insane. For me to play a good game of chess I must be using premium use of my time when I am not tired or on sleeping pills (Melatonin) to win a game I cannot be dozing off my concentration must be with me at the moment of the game from the beginning to the end. It's four in the morning thank you Melatonin I am sleeping right through as you can read writing this blog requires let me say a different level of concentration.

Pacman Gives Green Light

Yes the video game of old but ever present gave me the green light and thus I preceded to play a rated 1173 player in chess always a tough opponent for me higher rated than I at this point but my reflexes and mental alertness passed the pacman test clearly the nap didn't make me groggy this time and into the rated chess game I went. The results? It was a lightning victory opponent signaled no contest awarded me the win after I sniped his queen in a move fast reflex seconds to move game a quick win for me to my delight thus adding to my winning streak and the demise to my agony of past defeats and a breathe of life doom and gloom is never any fun believe you me.

Pacman Says

A could indicator in my performance at rated or unrated chess games is my performance in the video game pacman. If I can't score well to my satisfaction chances are I won't do well at chess so hold off until I can fit the mode and play up to par. The pacman game is a good barometer. I could use all the warning signs as to when to duck and dodge a bad game of chess. I'm waiting for my winning streaks to come back as they normally do and if they don't come back then it is time to find another hobby. Look at the time I took six milligrams of a sleeping pill and I've been up since three or all morning I can't remember. This is not the time to play any games and expect performance.

Excuses

What happens when we feel we are not living up to our potential? Life then doesn't seem to be lived up to the fullest. I don't know about you but I'm trying to put my finger on what makes me fail in winning chess games as much as I am capable of doing. I had my caffeine fix so that isn't it. The heat yes that is it! I'm not a heat thriving kind of guy and the heat makes me groggy and slothful every day tasks take much longer to do like when the weather is cool I can zip through the lawn with a mower but in the heat of the day in a summer it takes so much longer to do. That is it maybe but then I play chess morning noon and night so there goes that excuse out the window. But the engine search suggest to take a break during a slump and that I can do.

One of my other blogs is called It Never Takes A Genius which is another story on how to succeed in life even though we and I are not of the genius rating you don't ever see me with a high rating in chess do you? No of course not but the closer I can reach for higher ratings the happier I become. But for now this is not the case. Wait for me when I'm on a winning streak.

Getting Use To It The Game

So far so good I'm getting use to the on line game after all I've more than eight hundred on line rated games but I never get use to the slumps and driving down my ratings to where it is now. Do my winning streaks also happen to drive up my ratings up to where it should? Yes so far so good it does happen. Give me liberty and then confidence while you are at it dear God. I get less nervous....oh wait a minute hold the phone! The phone cell phone rang I was busy playing the game on line cannot talk while concentrating on a chess game and I was going more insane than I was nervous wondering why I'm on the phone doing errands running the phone to my relative visiting here when I'm in the heat and middle of a chess game playing for ratings. Yes I know it is just a game but in my mind and the mind of the chess world it is a very skilled game measuring up and keeping stride with the advancement of technology. No one or no machine is too smart for the age old game of chess it has stayed the course

An On Line Chess Record Breaker

Do I speak of chess accomplishment like when Bobby Fischer the legend said life is a chess board? I think he played more chess games than I did. Do I dare compare his game to mine? I say lighten up Bobby boy and by the way that is my first name or nick name too. I can't say Bobby Fischer played twenty four games in twenty four hours but today I did just that. Count them it is on record with Yahoo on line chess games the statistics bear it out. I'm not going to provide any more material for you insomniacs who need this blog on tape so you may sleep better at nights. A fee will be forth coming. A game of chess lasts roughly thirty five forty minutes so for a fast game lasting half an hour yes twenty four games can be played in twenty four hours. In case you are wondering what on line chess is like with chess players from around the world here you have it with my provider Yahoo on line chess board games you would think I'm hooked would you not having tallied up more than or nearly nine hundred games of chess in less than two years. No I'm not sloshed after playing a ton of chess in a marathon session of chess games I did not make one spelling error according to my spell checker. Games of on line chess will do these things to a poor soul playing chess morning noon and night.

No Mistakes This Time

The last three games of chess I did remember to click on for a no rate game so in losing my rating didn't plummet like a dive bomber. I know when I'm not going to play well sometimes the feeling is there the confidence is up and I am practicing now whether I am to improve upon my ratings remains to be seen the frustration at times appear that in no way will I gain any headway a no talent player can practice until the moon turns to cheese and his game will go no where sorry for the negative outlook but these are my thoughts. Looking at my Yahoo chess statistics I lost two games out of twenty games and had some three drawls or I had sixteen wins two loses and three or two draws but this time around I do not intend to lose eight games in row and wreck my ratings. For those of you who have insomnia I urge you to read this blog put it on tape and play it back while you struggle to sleep I guarantee you to fall asleep in nothing flat yes sir this is the way of my blog. Look at the time it is insomniac special and I'm wide awake but not at the zone which is where and when I can do no wrong and do anything with ease and be the winner.

A Mistake

It wasn't my intention to play a rated game but I forgot to click on for a non rated game and it cost me a lost in ratings. It's just a game remember? Yet losing depresses me it didn't have to happen I could have waited until my energies were better. But I can get over this depression quickly I normally do and victory will be for the taking in the next games. Yes I do hate losing more than I like winning (Joe Montana the great quarterback of the San Francisco Forty Niners his statement on the air in response to my question).

Blunder

This is the "B" word and is not ordinarily allowed in this blog. But I did blunder and that's when chess players get into trouble. I meant to play an exhibition game but blundered and forgot to click on to an unrated game and so there I was in an arena trapped against my will against a higher rated opponent I always duck and dodge when it comes to playing for ratings but I was stuck back out and lose automatically. My opponent was a solid 1265 rated too high for my comfort I only play those opponents with that kind of rating and higher in exhibition games where if and when I do lose I can say oh well the lost didn't count or reduce my ratings. Anyhow despite my blunder I had beaten my opponent by trying to put my best foot forward with visions of the number ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen who says he can envision a dozen or so moves ahead of time each time he moves. Whatever the case I bungled my way into a rated game and won no this time this blunder did not depress me none the least. I've lost count on the blunders I've made sending me into too many nose dives into the bliss of hell. It is not of my will to allow myself to be crucified I am not God. But I know what torture is. Marty Nemko the career talk show host on KGO radio 810 of San Francisco reminded me chess is just a game. It is a relief to know that.

No Slump Here Please

There's that terrible word and it starts with a letter the letter I cannot say let's not go there but I know for the last several days or so I've not on a losing streak. My video game is an indicator of when not to play rated games a prelude or before any such rated game is to be played in chess going into a game of chess half asleep is likened to attempted suicide and dosing off is suicide allowing one's best chess game to slip and slide crashing down into the bottom of The Grand Canyon. Playing a good game of Pacman can prove that at that time at least I'm scoring and putting numbers on the board satisfactory enough to decide whether I'm game for a gratifying game of chess once I can meet the standards for winning in chess. Think about it long enough and you will know what I'm saying I am merely saying a good player in chess should go into the game in mind of putting the best foot forward. I'm in no condition at the moment to play a rated game of chess when my body says right now "it is nap time folks"!