Hello everyone,

It is great to have joined this chess community on the net, I really like and enjoy my chess, but as the subject heading suggests I do not regard my self as a very good player, and that is why I have not wrote to the forums before nor have I challenged anybody, I am sure that given time I will get round to challenging someone.

jumbojet

keep practasing ad you will get good!!

don't worry. i had the same problem you did. start out by playing unrated games to increase your confidence, then play rated games with higher ranked players.

Thank you for your replies and votes of confidence.

Welcome, hope you enjoy your time here and just remember we  all started somewhere. Masters and Grandmasters didn't always play that well.

Jumbo, starting to play chess is a bit intimidating.  You push the pieces around the board and somebody who's been playing a bit longer than you can spot your mistakes and take advantage of them;  so you lose a lot of games.

But after a while you start to see things a bit more clearly and you don't make the same mistakes.  Then you build up some chess muscle.

Let me tell you, one of the great pleasures in chess is being able to beat up the guys who used to crush you when you first started.

Don't let us intimidate you.  Dive in.  Challenge a few people.  Enjoy yourself ... because even if we have the best of it today, tomorrow belongs to you. 

I'm most impressed by your comments, Dozy, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

The gentleman from leeds should jump in and not worry. I know he'll have a wonderful time. 

Dozy wrote:

Jumbo, starting to play chess is a bit intimidating.  You push the pieces around the board and somebody who's been playing a bit longer than you can spot your mistakes and take advantage of them;  so you lose a lot of games.

But after a while you start to see things a bit more clearly and you don't make the same mistakes.  Then you build up some chess muscle.

Let me tell you, one of the great pleasures in chess is being able to beat up the guys who used to crush you when you first started.

Don't let us intimidate you.  Dive in.  Challenge a few people.  Enjoy yourself ... because even if we have the best of it today, tomorrow belongs to you. 

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..........also, you cant make an omelette w/out breaking a few eggs.

Chess can be fun but at the same time can be intimidating and in some extreme cases, discouraging if you keep getting beaten severely over and over by players who have been playing longer and have more experience than you do.

 The important thing to remember is to try to maintain a good attitude about the games that you play. Try not to concern yourself so much with the initial results since it is normal not to do well at the beginning of any activity (chess especially). Instead look at your games as a sort of learning experience. You try something, it does not work as you had planned, then you review to see what  you could have done differently and try that in another game and see if that works.

 If you play with friends, ask them if they can provide you with ideas and options and ask them to explain why some things would work and why some things would not. Ask them if you might have had options that you could have played that might have changed the outcome.

 I hope that you enjoy your games, learn from them, and improve as you go along.

Best wishes on your future endeavors. 

Thank you everybody for your encouragement