1st comment=)
1st option is just 4 sportive player.....2nd for an arrogant player...and the 3rd???? you are playing chess not dice)
how is the second for an arrogant player? I would say it's for a player that understands he made mistakes
"Up on the top tables they outplay each other. Down here it's about who makes the first mistake."
- fellow novice player in the Cleveland Chess Congress, Jan '09.
It depends on the situation
...how bout this ritik10
I wonder how people would have voted if they changed with wording a little:
A. I played well, but my opponent was able to capitalize on my mistakes.
B. I didn't play well and my opponent played better/outplayed me.
C. I'm confusing chess with poker =/
How would people vote?
It depends, every game is different.....
there should be option "all of above"...
I go for B, if I lose it's just because I got a bad one, and my opponent made me pay for the mistakes.
According to a recent forum [ I played great but my opponent cheated ] should be the number one responce, since cheating is rampant and the vast majority of players rated over 2000 cheat in live chess (according to the participants in said forum).
I voted "I was just unlucky." I think it should be the popular vote, and that there are some wrong opinions here.
Well, atleast I came in second...
What?? No option for I never lose!
lol Just kidding, I always lose.
I'm curious how, "I played well, but my opponent didn't play fair." would score. I bet 2 out of 4 of my OTB opponents this weekend would pick that one. It seems common to want to blame something outside our control for our losses.
"I didn't play well and my opponent took advantage of my mistakes (78%)"
Sometimes it's I played the best game that I am able, but my opponent simply outclassed me. And then other times it's I'm as good as my opponent is, but I made mistakes that they were able to take advantage of.
Usually it's because of really dumb blunders that I definetly could have seen.. If I didn't blunder I bet my rating could easily be 1500 :p
Well, we are all human (except for those chess-playing bots, you know who you are ) and humans make mistakes.
even kasparov admits he makes mistakes in EVERY game, according to him it's impossible to play the perfect game. there are always mistakes..
There will always be mistakes for sure. That's why the computer is the reigning chess champion.
But does the opponent capitalizing on your mistakes = you didn't play well?
I like JohnPaladin's comment, "Sometimes I play the best game I'm able, but my opponent simply outclassed me."
I agree that the second option IS more for the arrogant bunch. Like likesforests said, #3 wants to blame external sources for one's loss. Option #2 seems to want to say, "Normally, when I play, I play really, really good, and that's why I win: because of my skill and masterful play." When I lose, it's just because I had an off day and my opponent was just able to see the OBVIOUS MISTAKES in my game, which I couldn't see at the time . . . for some reason . . . maybe because my glasses were in the shop . . . but now it's 100% obvious that I just made a dumb mistake, and anyone with eyes could just pick up on that and win by default. It's like thinking you win because of skill and everyone else wins because sometimes you just make mistakes.
I believe option #1 takes the most ownership of not only your own skill and human tendencies to err, but acknowledges that your opponent had to play well to beat you. Be a man: choose option #1 :)
how about "I resigned from disgust of his lack of skills"?
I never lose. Look at my game history so far.
If you made mistakes (pretty way of saying that you didn't play well), then you cannot say that your opponent didn't play better than you regardless if you knew better or not. However, if you were to play him or her best out of 3 or 5, then that is a different story.
Every response to a loss is different, but for every game you lose a piece and lose against an opponent, another opponent did the same thing against you.
The person who taught chess to me always said that chess is the perfect game. There is no luck involved, mind versus mind. Poker, cards, gambling are all imperfected games, which luck is involved. In chess, you error, it's your own fault. No valid excuses in this game.
Chess is a game of luck, if you are paired with a worse opponent :P
Actually there are lots of reasons that I lose. I often get bored when I have an overwhelming position against a weaker player (I was 2 rooks, a bishop and a pawn to the good with queens off the board! no hint of resignation, luckily there was an interesting mate in four so I won but geeze, try a little courtesy once in awhile!). I always try to play as well as I can but anyone who doesn't understand that there are stronger players or that you can have a bad day shouldn't play chess as they will inevibably be disappointed sooner or later.
1.contemplate suicide.
2. Consider joining the foreign legend.
3. Go on a three day drunk.
4. Say good game and try not to be beaten again the same way.
My mistake is always the same, Even before I started I loose, So if I did not start I would be ok, O hell! I forgot the timer is going lost again,I wonder if I could glue my opponents men to the board
It's usually a combination of mistakes made by both sides, and which player can capitalise the best on his opponent's mistakes. The basic reason somebody loses is always because he/she has made a mistake. But everybody also makes mistakes and gets away with them sometimes. To win, simply do the following: (1) minimise mistakes (2) capitalise on your opponent's mistakes (3) defend as well as possible if the need arises. To lose, simply do the following: (1) maximise mistakes (2) fail to capitalise on your opponent's mistakes (3) defend poorly. 8)
well when i lose a game i look at them and see why i lost i mean if im playing someone on here with a rating 1700 and up chances are im going to lose however i try to learn from the better players ny rating is kind of high right now for my playing like because of timed out games which happens so anyway. ive played games on here that i was winning than oops but thats chess
I picked number two, not because I'm arrogant at all. In fact, I usually do not think that I play well at all, so it's just par for the course!
I agree with depharoah....second choice is for those who realize they made mistakes playing. It's not necessarily arrogant----the arrogant player would be one who thinks he should have won regardless of how he or she played and therefore thinks they are never making any mistakes. Which we all know is very wrong. We all make mistakes--otherwise we would never lose at all. Even the chess greats make mistakes---theirs are just far fewer and farther between than a great deal of us.
ACTUALLY NO NEED OF ARGUMENTS............
'' TO ERR IS MAN ''(IF U LIKE IT GIVE ME A TROPHY)
PIS.........I BEG A TROPHY I 'LL RETURN THE SAME KIND(S) FOR U
If I lose, it's usually because I'm not in the right mood.
how 'bout, i lost 'cuz i was playing a 30 year old when i'm only 10?
More than once I have lost a game from being over-confident. Then I end up losing a winning position.
I didnt play well ENOUGH
none of the above, they could have made that an option.
i found the first move of this puzzle, it is the only easy move.
That's a great survey. Note the percentage. 101% all up.
I usually blame the homeless.
IM A REALLY BAD PLAYER AND BLUNDER ALL THE TIME
I thinkk there should be another option called- i made mistakes due to impatience
coz i make most oof my mistakes coz i wanna finish games quickly.
it is for my analysis problem..
Just because we are all aware of the impact made by our own blunders ... [2] is the popular choice.
The answer is: D) it depends on the loss. To pick Choice 1 assumes that we always play well. To choose Choice 2 means that we don't play well as a matter of course. Choice 3 doesn't make sense because losing is a matter of cause and effect, not luck. You make a mistake, and it causes you to lose. You play well, but are outplayed, this causes you to lose. It isn't a matter of random occurence.
I submit this poll was conducted as a case study of attitudes -- and is not a true poll as it "appears" to be. None of the options are "right", but people will still choose based on their attitude, or what happens most of the time in their own personal experiece.
I let him win the game so he can have points...HAHAHA....LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I lose because I blow it in the opening. trying dumb stuff that I should know better.I have weaknesses.My knowledge is narrow but what I know I know well.
there in the board in front of us are all the mistakes waiting to be made
of course B
Maybe the reason is I'm weak playing chess because I just play chess for fun, friendship, brain exercise. I don't care if I will win or lose the game as long as I have those three. And besides, my hobby is ballroom and latin dancing.
Ray Duque, III (GMBD), New York City
they don't have one for:
I blundered
Ritik 10, that can't be a chess problem!
And 0-1?
Usually I make a stupid blunder and my opponent catches it, but sometimes I think it just a matter of playing someone much more experienced.
How about this as an option (though it is somewhat related to choice #2) - blundered big time in the early game and was never able to fully recover from it.
first reason- my opponent takes advantege of my mistakes
another possible answer- i just suck ( although you should never be negative )
I was surprised to see so many people think poker is a game of luck. No less than chess, poker is a game of skill. The primary difference is that chess is played with perfect information, and poker is played with imperfect information.
I normally lose because I am a terrible human being
Every chess player makes mistakes. It's just that the mistakes of top players are harder to spot. Even a supercomputer looking 50 moves ahead would make mistakes compared to a supercomputer looking 60 moves ahead. Ultimately, winning is about making as few mistakes as possible while trying to take full advantage of your opponents mistakes. It'd be more accurate to say:
I'm coo coo for coa coa puffs, I hope that helps.
Since when was luck even a part of chess? Both armies start out with the same peices and white's advantage of moving first basically doesn't mean anything. The game is about skill.
"The loser is always at fault"
- Vasilii Nicolaevich Panov
sometime i feel that underestimating the opponent is the cause of losing in chess.
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