How high should rating be before join some chess club?

hey, such things happened to everyone. A club mate with ~ 1800 FIDE played this in a tournament game (2 hrs / 40 moves and 1 hr / remains). He thought he knew his french defence well enough, but mixed up moves:

This was a correspondence game I played in a tournament.

AFAIK,

You don't even have to be a rated player to join a club.

I find chess a fantastic discipline to try to improve yourself. My VietVoDao teacher told me : "it doesn't matter which rung of the ladder you're at, what's important is to try and reach the next one" (rough translation from French, but you get the idea).

Give the chess club a try and try to learn with other players. If you find the atmosphere unpleasant, you can always try another club. There are good clubs and good people around.

I don't know about Finland but here in New York City we have chess clubs in libraries and schools as well as lots of private chess clubs and also most of our parks have chess tables. We have lots of places to play chess which is good for me because I am a chess addict. It has been found that playing chess improves children's school work and reduces demetia in adults so the city encourages chess as much as possible. 

For me it's too a very good exercise to try to prove my "cognitive" skills. Like memory, concertration and so on. They I quite low now, because I just had a little maniac stroke (why should I be shame and not to tell that I hav a little mental illness? - I'm not). And what is benefit of chess too: I learn english here when I have to try to write it. I wasn't not so good in english at school: I did had 5 out of 10 the number.

Are there many chess clubs in Finland? There is not a single club in my region. Maybe some in Delhi. For me, this website is the greatest club.

I found a good list: http://www.shakki.net/pelaaminen/kerhot/ There is 59. I just have to choose...

I played black :)

Hola hola, drink Coca-Cola!

Well, I have time. Plenty of time. I feel quite lucky: I'm in disability pension. Here is good social care here in Finland. I managed to act to the doctor so that I get the right papers. No work, no school, just time to do almost everything I want, forexample play chess.

Joining a chess club will make you a better player and you will most likely make some new friends. Playing with better players is a great way to improve.

I hope you do go to a club if you really want to. You can go one or 2 times just to see how its like. I first went to a club couple of years ago and I'm soon 40. I was a bit nervous because I'm not good in social situations and i thought i was a bad chess player. But when I came there that didnt matter.

It was a small club, we were maybe 10 persons at most ages from maybe 14 to 60. And it was just to ask anyone there if they wanted to play and we sat down. I lost some games to the top players and won some blitz against the lower but overall it was nice atmosphere. We had some breaks to drink some coffe or tea and talk.

Next time I came they had an inhouse tournament with small prizes and i was invited to play. It was fun and just the joy of playing anyone really is nice. After that I didnt go back anymore but playing in real life as opposed to online is great and fun. And I dropped pieces and blundered but noone laughs, everyone does it and has done it. Its a part of the game. Especcially when playing blitz over the board it is dramatic and fun.

So I hope you will go there, its also a way to make friends even if you just meet at the club. It will make you feel better and you'll have fun. Even if you lose. I promise. Dont be afraid of what other thinks about your play because I promise you most people dont care about that. Most people come there to play and meet others.

Here on online sites you might get some people making fun of your play but they make fun of everyone, even if they meet somone that is good. It's a bad attitude problem they have. But I've never met anyone over the borad at a club doing the same thing.

I hope you gather up the courage to go there, once youre in you want to stay there all night playing :)

Good luck

/Stefan

Last week I went to a free local chess club (there's also one that's not free) for the second time. There was one young man there who was clearly not very good, and I heard his opponent at the next table giving him tips after their game. Then I played him and gave him tips, too. Yes, chess clubs can be a great place to learn. In fact, only one player there gave me a lot of trouble in the form of stiff competition (he won both our games) and he was a gray-haired older man. As a result of one of those losses I discovered a faulty move in my repertoire, a move I'd been playing for months, so I ended up learning, too.

I've never heard of anybody being laughed at in a chess club, for either age or playing ability. The worst I've ever encountered was when I lost miserably to an Elephant Gambit to a guy fresh out of jail, and I heard somebody in another part of the room humorously saying about our game, "Did you see that game over there?", meaning "Do you see that guy get slaughtered?!"

Whenever I play against somebody I'm sure is very weak I'll even give them "odds" by playing some horrible opening, like the Gedult as White, or Damiano's as Black. Such games make for interesting posts on a forum such as this (with my opponent's name left anonymous) since one very rarely sees games with those openings, especially when the "wrong" player wins.

@VarmaKoppen:

I hope you do go to a club if you really want to. You can go one or 2 times just to see how its like. I first went to a club couple of years ago and I'm soon 40. I was a bit nervous because I'm not good in social situations and i thought i was a bad chess player. But when I came there that didnt matter.

It was a small club, we were maybe 10 persons at most ages from maybe 14 to 60. And it was just to ask anyone there if they wanted to play and we sat down. I lost some games to the top players and won some blitz against the lower but overall it was nice atmosphere. We had some breaks to drink some coffe or tea and talk.

Next time I came they had an inhouse tournament with small prizes and i was invited to play. It was fun and just the joy of playing anyone really is nice. After that I didnt go back anymore but playing in real life as opposed to online is great and fun. And I dropped pieces and blundered but noone laughs, everyone does it and has done it. Its a part of the game. Especcially when playing blitz over the board it is dramatic and fun.

So I hope you will go there, its also a way to make friends even if you just meet at the club. It will make you feel better and you'll have fun. Even if you lose. I promise. Dont be afraid of what other thinks about your play because I promise you most people dont care about that. Most people come there to play and meet others.

Here on online sites you might get some people making fun of your play but they make fun of everyone, even if they meet somone that is good. It's a bad attitude problem they have. But I've never met anyone over the borad at a club doing the same thing.

I hope you gather up the courage to go there, once youre in you want to stay there all night playing :)

Good luck

/Stefan

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Your font was quite small so I made it little bigger.

Yes yes, I will go...some day. I promise.

Did you get these benefits for life?

"Did I get those benefits?" Yes. I have been in work life and studied enough to know that I'm not so keen on them. I get a long guite nice even economically. I get over 1200 € in month and my apartments rents is only 400 €. 200 € goes to the food and rest 600 € for fun.

So, in other words, you're completely healthy & capable of working but managed to take advantage of the system to support you, right? Why work if you can get some other people to work for you, right? :)

1200 what?  elo? fide? chess.com blitz? chess.com standard?  All are different.

Quite right. Most of the works are useless. We do stupid things. Stupid works produce stupid works that produce stupid works exponentially. As a matter of fact I have mental illness but most of them who has it do it well in works, but I'm happy not to need anymore. My work is to enjoy myself.