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Getting over the hump

I love chess. But so do most of us on this site. I play downtown San Francisco with some of the chess hustlers and mostly pay for lessons via losing bets. Ive been lucky to hook up with a few Grand Masters and Grand Master level players and learn a few things. I havent played regularly for quite some time. I support the HipHop Chess fedearation( http://www.hiphopchessfederation.org/ ) but I havent gotten any regular play. Im so glad to have discovered Chess.com . Ive been playing almost nonstop (bar sleep) since yesterday and I gotten my rating up to about 1354 only to plummet to 1263(smdh) but ive finaly gotten past the 1300 hump and I hopr to stay above this and grow as a player. I ve learned my lesson(again) about chess fatigue. sometimes you just have to put the pieces down,chill and re-energize. Then you can have back at it *CHEAH*

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  • 11 months ago

    ash369

    Trouble is with every chess game someone wins and is elated, someone loses and becomes depressed.  We all need maturity to handle this frailty that humans have and computers don't.  So rejoice for being human :)

    Even when I win I feel for the guy who lost, who probably fought a good fight.  And I have to acknowlege that (an awful admission) lady luck nearly always plays an important role in determining outcomes.  Sure we enhance our prospects by keeping to basic principles and watching for all the pins and traps. And all the while looking for deadly strategems.  But if we are honest we are thankful at the endgame when we find a happy combination occurs, which was not really foreseen, but we all take credit for.  So if you're going through a bad patch -- think of the pleasure you're giving others, while determining the bad patch is temporary -- part of your learning curve.  :)

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