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Signs you're a bad chess player


  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1761

    jetfighter13

    20/500-600 in each eye. I have you all beat by a mile. and yet I still find a way to pole vault

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1762

    jetfighter13

    and I am only 17

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1763

    11qq11

    I know someone who is 20/600 20/800

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1764

    jetfighter13

    that sucks still they can't beat the age though.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1765

    nameno1had

    When your're better known on Chess.com for your trolling tactics than your chess tactics...

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1766

    11qq11

    Nope they are 3x older than you

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1767

    jetfighter13

    that isn't bad. for me anything past the end of my arm is just a blur without my glasses. I can't even make coffee without them. let alone play my guitar. or type.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1768

    nameno1had

    jetfighter13 wrote:

    that isn't bad. for me anything past the end of my arm is just a blur without my glasses. I can't even make coffee without them. let alone play my guitar. or type.

    I recommend laying on your bed and playing your guitar in a dark room...It can be very relaxing as well as a great exercise to get you more used to playing by feel.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1769

    jetfighter13

    cool. I leave the lights on so that when my cat comes in to listen to me he doesn't scare me.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1770

    jrzmath99

    nameno1had wrote:

    When your're better known on Chess.com for your trolling tactics than your chess tactics...

    Especially since you play the Parham and your name starts with "whatup"

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1771

    Time_Paradox

    Intio wrote:

    N2UHC wrote:

    Signs you're a bad chess player...
    You discover that a tournament is not a good place or time to learn the “en passant” rule.

    Many many years ago I took part in a school tournament held in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, for any school in that part of Scotland who wished to participate. It was in no way unusual to find people who had never been taught en passant.

     

    One opponent I played hadn't even been taught what castling was and upon seeing it for the first time, gave me a slight frown, looked me in the eye and said "What are you doing?"

    Of course the children in such tournaments aren't to blame, rather it is the teachers who send them to tournaments without a full understanding of the rules who need to get their act together. I'm not saying you have to be taught every application of the rules (such as positional play, square strength etc.) before you go to a tournament - but why would a teacher impart some of the rules and not others?

    Agreed.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1772

    AlCzervik

    chrisr2212 wrote:

    i can't believe this thread is still motoring!!

    here's what one guy had to say about this thread on NBC

     

    Pretty sad when Brian Williams is slow jamming the lameness of a thread here.

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1773

    finalunpurez

    jrzmath99 wrote:
    nameno1had wrote:

    When your're better known on Chess.com for your trolling tactics than your chess tactics...

    Especially since you play the Parham and your name starts with "whatup"

    LOL. Laughing

  • 12 months ago · Quote · #1774

    Emasin

    You remove an opponent's piece everytime you move three pawns in a row calling it a "windmill tactic".

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1775

    Chemwong

    -On your first move you always try to make a move with any non-knight piece.

    -You keep asking "Can I move the knight at the first move" due to confusion with Chinese chess.

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1776

    e4nf3

    There are far worse things than being a bad chess player.

    Though, at the moment, I can't think of any.

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1777

    AlCzervik

    e4nf3 wrote:

    There are far worse things than being a bad chess player.

    Though, at the moment, I can't think of any.

    Think just a little longer.

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1778

    ChazR

    ...you could be a bad chess player if you have to ask your mother, "What's the best move?"

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1779

    e4nf3

    Well, I did think a little longer.

    The one thing that may be worse than being a bad chess player is...swallowing crushed glass.

  • 11 months ago · Quote · #1780

    DavyWilliams

    IN the endgame, you forget which color you are.


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