Psychological Aspect of Chess

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hapless_fool

A few months back someone on the general forum was describing their skyrocketing career as an amateur chessmaster, so naturally I challenged him to a game. This game features two fair to middling players, one of whom was just trying to be obnoxious (we live in a fallen world and I couldn't help myself). I also note that I've been playing this game with an seriousness only since June of this year, so I can be forgiven for, among other things, butchering the Ruy Lopez. I post it to demonstrate the infamous TITB move (#26). 

awesomechess1729
hapless_fool wrote:

A few months back someone on the general forum was describing their skyrocketing career as an amateur chessmaster, so naturally I challenged him to a game. This game features two fair to middling players, one of whom was just trying to be obnoxious (we live in a fallen world and I couldn't help myself). I also note that I've been playing this game with an seriousness only since June of this year, so I can be forgiven for, among other things, butchering the Ruy Lopez. I post it to demonstrate the infamous TITB move (#26). 

 

That's a good game. I don't see how having a rating of 1382 makes an "amateur chessmaster", even to an arrogant user like your opponent seemed to be, but the chessrating systems are faulty, so I don't know. What do you mean by TITB?- I'm not good with acronyms or texting or any of that, but clearly it meant a bad move of some sort. By the way, what were the time controls for this game?

ChessMN16

If you want an excellent book about chess psychology (that is supported by research), look no further than Adriaan De Groot's excellent work on the subject. 

hapless_fool
awesomechess1729 wrote:
hapless_fool wrote:

A few months back someone on the general forum was describing their skyrocketing career as an amateur chessmaster, so naturally I challenged him to a game. This game features two fair to middling players, one of whom was just trying to be obnoxious (we live in a fallen world and I couldn't help myself). I also note that I've been playing this game with an seriousness only since June of this year, so I can be forgiven for, among other things, butchering the Ruy Lopez. I post it to demonstrate the infamous TITB move (#26). 

 

That's a good game. I don't see how having a rating of 1382 makes an "amateur chessmaster", even to an arrogant user like your opponent seemed to be, but the chessrating systems are faulty, so I don't know. What do you mean by TITB?- I'm not good with acronyms or texting or any of that, but clearly it meant a bad move of some sort. By the way, what were the time controls for this game?

The gent had skyrocketed to 1750 very quickly, but drifted back to earth. TITB stands for Turd In The punchBowl. I was pretty tired last night and messed up the last letter. Oh well. BTW this was CC. How can you walk into a pawn fork in CC is the question. I suspect the answer was hubris. 

joe7don

Chess and Poker have much in common. Fast vote chess, 10 and 30 min/move and war have much in common, too.