This game taught me a few lessons. 1. Never play tired after work 2. Don't let the win of an immediate preceding and sensational game make you think you're some kind of Kasparov and 3. Never let an early advantage take your focus away from Mecca and the Vatican.

I think it is pretty bad sportsmanship to list your opponent and then say he beat you because you were tired or not playing at your best.

 

When did you have an advantage? 

tonightonly7 wrote:

I think it is pretty bad sportsmanship to list your opponent and then say he beat you because you were tired or not playing at your best.

 

When did you have an advantage? 

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 I guess I can sort of see your point but it wasn't intended that way. While not taking anything away from my opponent's play, I certainly won't have to lie about my given physical state. It was not a patronizing reference to his play but indicative of lessons learnt.

 

What advantage? I certainly wouldn't consider his straying knight a sacrificial bait, cos it wasn't... it was in my box and all I had to do was be patient. And I don't consider my lack of focus as normal, it wasn't, as it arose from my given state. There is nothing unsportsmanship about it from my perspective especially as I know better not to play tired. 

Tonightonly, he never said that his opponent beat him just because he was tired. It gave an opportunity which his opponent saw and took advantage of. That is, after all, what chess is all about?

 

My own worst game was when I was 10, and didn't think it was possible to think several moves ahead! We had a chess club where usually the good players and the players like myself avoided each other. But one time there was no one else to play with but a sharp player in his late thirties, who amazed me with his ability to play brilliant moves in an instant. My humiliation did not last too long.

"1. Never play tired after work"

 

I sometimes do that, too! I guess that's why most sites support both rated and unrated games. You can play unrated if you're tired.

I support all the lessons youve mentioned egoigwe! it happens to me MOST of the time especially nos. 1 and 3. i've a far more embarrasing game than this...but mine ended in a draw.

Thanks for sharing that game with us. Losses are often the hardest to look at. My only tidbit of insight into this game is development. This is a clear example of what happens when you don't engage your opponents pieces in the centre of the board. The only white pieces that are off the back rank are the rook and queen, which are poorly developed, and the queens bish, which was eaten. Thank you for the braveness to show this game, an instructive miniature. As for the opponents name being on there, it is just a matter of record keeping in my eyes, and I'd be glad if someone was showing off a game I played like that! Mr Mike thanks you

I have been advice not to play when I am tired, and I am doing better now. Recently I lost 10 games out of time. I came home so tired that I forgot to check how my games were going on time(I lost aprox. 100 points in one night!). We have been advice also to show here the games we lose. I doesn't make any  sense to show the games we win, only in some special cases. Thanks Egoigwe for sharing with us this experience. In 1984, Steiniz(first world's champion), lost a game with an amazing bad move, because He was tired!

Thank you all immensely, for sharing and understanding. I've felt rather bad since Tonightonly's post and had pondered if I did the right thing by posting the game. Mine was and remains an innocent gesture at trying to show how my given circumstances let me down at a game I've grown to cherish and adore so much. All I ever did wish for, was that others benefit from the lessons of my foolhardiness.

 

I learnt that there is a time to play chess optimally and a time to resist that overbearing impulse to dance on the squares... it's been said already, what's worth doing is worth doing well. 

 

 

Wow...sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel bad.

I just think it would be better to list your opponent as 'Anon.' or something. 

You enjoy throwing them pawns out. There ain't much to protect your queen if you ever get to castle.

 "Wow...sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel bad.

I just think it would be better to list your opponent as 'Anon.' or something."

 

I guess that would do too but I really didn't see anything wrong with giving credit to one credit is due... it was his winning hand after all. But I do thank you too, Tonightonly, for showing me the flip-side... really, thank you.