Why are 1500+ players so cocky???

In almost every forum the higher level players always make remarks on how watching 1200 and below games make their eyes burn...

Please provide a link to such a forum...

I am being sort of stereotypical, but I always come across players that are super annoying and condescending... 

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- CrystalMoon ]

i remember playing someone by that username actually, though I cannot be completely sure...

Some are like that. A chess rating is more or less all they have. 

we can report [please don't name and shame], I was just on his account

I will add him and play him to see what he does...

*his account page

I agree with cottonsock (post #3), 

I think that being "cocky" versus "humble" is more of a personality difference. Additionally, I imagine that there are close to the same number of "higher rated" cocky players as "lower rated" cocky players. Perhaps, "higher rated" cocky players are just more likely to voice their opinions in forums and such - or at the very least that "higher rated" players (cocky or not) are more likely to have their views considered. If someone is bragging online about how they are the best chess player there ever was, but has a rating sub-1000, (believe it or not, happens more than most think) they are not taken too seriously; this is simply because it is easy for someone better to basically say "yeah right" or outright refute their flawed variations or comments. This same idea would apply to "higher rated" cocky players, but there are simply fewer players better than them to refute what they say (compared to a lower rated player).

Maybe it is also possible that "cocky" players tend to be "higher rated", but this might just be due to winning more than losing and getting egotistical as a result. However, I still stand to my original thought that there are probably circa the same number of "cocky" players, "higher" or "lower" rated; it is just that lower rated players are either less outspoken, or taken seriously by the general public less often.

Even if you set aside the ethics behind being cocky, or the sportsmanship that chess should players should uphold ... being humble is still better. A humble person will suffer far less humility and embarrassment than someone who arrogantly believes they are "so" great. Respect your opponents, be humble, and you won't fall from the hubris that brings down people in Greek tradegy after another.

I have yet to run across a chess player that smelled like bacon...

You have only played 2 games here in total, neither of which were against the person you named.

It is against the site rules to accuse other members of cheating in the forums. 

If you want to report someone, you are supposed to email support and they will check it out. You can also use the report button on every member's profile. Of course, they will probably take the fact that you have never played this person into account.

Why don't you try playing?

www.chess.com/forum/

Yeah, well, in none of his 70+ years of being alive has Donald Trump ever live in Greece, apparently.

I think it has more to do with how much work they've put into the game and that chess skill, unlike many other skills, isn't apparent to a casual observer. 

You know, like if someone hits a homerun, anyone can tell that takes skill, or if we hear a nice sounding piece of music, you can tell they've practiced, but a 1000 rated player giving analysis doesn't realize he's hitting the guitar against the wall and calling it music. The 2000 rated player doesn't realize the song he's playing sounds bad, hitting wrong notes with bad tempo etc... not until the GM points it out to them

And maybe we call that cocky... I guess it is. At the same time though, as Finegold would say, "the truth hurts!"

(but sure, if someone is being rude, they're just a regular jerk no matter how good they are at chess)

do you realize the irony of recommending humility when your username is seto kaiba?

this would be the perfect threat for Megas lol

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