Im quite frustrated when i lose a 'won game' but there r factors that make it better and worse.... If im playing a higher rated player and was winning and then lost its not as bad and depends how bad the mistake i commited. If i blunder a piece then im pissed, if i lose something because i didn't catch something its not as bad.

Very depressed. But I'm getting  used to it, and NEVER expect to win.

Lose a won game?? In a tournament, I get so distraught at missing a winning Move, that I might Resign the game so i dont have to listen to the F, F, F, F repeating in my head for another 20 moves~!  Once I had a piece and Rook sac to mate and forgot the move order, sac'g the wrong one first ... and swore Never to Play Again! Indeed that time, it was over 3 months before I did play again. One of the longest. I usually get over it in a couple months . . .   }8-)

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PS// Fortunately, I invest no ego in my game and no doubt the world is a better place for it. It's not even the losing. I just hate to F up~! (Yeah, it's hard on the prostate ...)

In all honesty I voted middle of the road on this one, but I hate losing a game I ought to have won, AND I consider every loss a chance to learn, so I went with the middle of those two.  Though I wouldn't bother becoming violent over a game that has no money on it anyway.  Go play in the park if you are good enough to bother being that angry guys.

The 143.84 people who get violent should take it easy, 'cause violence does not solve anything.

I am sometimes upset 'cause I was about to win but I lost

i just have fun

 

I think It's weird how someone could have physical probbelem's, just because a chess game went wrong for them lol. But I never swop a Bishop for a Rook because a bishop pair is quite powerful !

me i don't really care about winning or losing just having fun.

man those 8% need to relax a little.....

 

p.s. Dhruv96... OUCH

I think it depends on where you are playing. At chess.com I play to learn (eventhough I still feel bitter after a blunder) but when I play my friends I really really want to win!!!

I get upset when I let things pass me. It's right what has been said over there: "I don't get angry at my opponent, I get angry at myself".

 I used to get mad in games where there is luck involved, but there is no such a thing in chess... that's the beauty of it, it's an honest game. You know exactly as much as your partner about what is hapaning, and yet, it's the smartes't one who get's the check mate...... most time!

There's just something wrong about treating your opponent's blunders as being a natural part of your superior game and your blunders as being an unnatural exception.  Everybody makes mistakes and nobody should.  Allow yourself to feel enough pain to learn from the experience, then move along and play another game.  Nothing will make you feel better than winning the next game, which you cannot do while you are sulking over the blunder you know you had it in you to see rather than celebrate the insight of your friend!

I don't get angry at my opponent, I get angry at myself for (usually) rushing a move.  Sometimes I can fight back; once I was a move away from mate and missed it... ended up losing.  I try to rationalize why I rushed a move, ie. work, just about to shutdown, whatever... but the only real reason is because I didn't take the time to analyze a 'given' position and paid for it.

Check out my last game against HermitBoy.  Look at my move 31 - I missed mate.  I ended up winning, but when you make such a bonehead mistake, it really burns you.  I still try to remind myself that this is "fun" and try to accept defeat and learn from it.

Its a bad feeling. You have the game under control and then you make some stupid mistake..I am usually very upset..

I went for the first choice. There isn'nt any such thing as losing when your learning.

This happened to me just yesterday on an online game.  I've been bushing up on my tactics and was able to win a rook for a bishop thanks to a discovered check, but I tried to hem up the game too quickly and fell for a checkmate I saw as only a spite check.  Foolish foolish me.

I recently lost a game i had almost won- I had killed the opponents queen, both the rooks,1 knight and 1 bishop. I had only lost one bishop. But because of careless play I lost the game. The key is - DONT BE OVERCONFIDENT, YOU STILL HAVENT CHECKMATED THE OPPONENT!                          

When you play as poorly as I do you get use to losing, trouble is I am a slow learner to but it is fun trying