The Chess Machines

Magnus is the current number one ranked chess player in the world and he holds the world record for being one of the youngest grand masters at age thirteen. That is young. He will be around out there as a chess celebrity for quite some time. So what am I saying? A chess playing computer machine is a good way to learn how to improve one's chess game that's all. When I did use them more than I do now my chess ratings were higher and at one point the online chess players for a short time said I was no beginner. What many of chess players already know is that a fifty dollar chess machine mass produced can beat a grandmaster at will. Most recently I find the chess playing machines dull and boring a real aid in putting me to sleep in a hurry! Great! A solution to my severe insomnia problems! But seriously thinking my next move is to realize the value of such practice resuming practicing against the chess machines will teach me some of the things what Magnus Carlsen has learned. If I cannot have fun playing chess and win enough games then it will be time to find something else to do. I say let there be more fun I haven't seen nothing yet!

Stand By Sound The Alert

Yes it gets this bad where I have to sound the alert any incoming calls are put on hold until this rated game is over and buried and any emergency calls...well...that's a chance I'll have to take usually the person at my front door is a door to door pesky sales person and my loved ones I tell them to leave a message on the answering machine and I can hear the message as I struggle in my battle if when on an online chess game. My alert is paying total concentration on my ongoing chess game I'm just that way. My last game my magic charm must have been working I made no blunders no errors plus the fact I think I just played a good game my opponent rated higher than I also was more like a player with his back against the wall as I pounded him forcing the play.

Die Hard

The last game was interesting the will the desire to play a game of chess could not elude me despite my plan not to play any chess during a period of a chess slump. Surely twenty seven games in twenty four hours with a chess slump is one of those violations of my plan. Nevertheless I backed off from the marathon type games my makeup isn't suited for the long distance hours of one game after another and I see little advantage in the rigors of those tough hours of play especially when there are more loses than wins. Maybe another time but only if I find it enjoyable or worth my while rather than self torture. I figured I might as well play a higher rated chess player he will more than likely beat me but I figured so what everybody else from those with poor records were killing me why not just another player rated higher than me(1265 rated) at least I know he was favored. A funny thing happened nevertheless. I won and I didn't see it as a fluke.

Slumps Are Made For The Dumps

Don't do it I say. If you keep playing and start losing all the time you are wasting your time who needs to practice losing when the game picks up you can practice winning not the practice for losing. Who needs the depression of losing consistently? When I'm in the zone and winning what more than to keep on playing until fatigue comes in and winning is no more than one quits for the time being waiting for the right time when performing is at an optimum and so I will wait for my chess black outs to subside and my karma says to forward and kick ass you are in the groove so play it that way no one needs to practice at anything when they are so bad.