Is it normal to have no fun when you lose every game?

I was just wondering if anyone has ever felt discouraged, you know but I'm not certain you know, kind of down, blue, melancholy, sad, sullen, you know, sadly down and blue?  Well, as relates to if you have ever played 20 games and lost every single one without winning a single one.  Is this a normal feeling?  I don't want to get all tore up about it but I can't seem to hit a flatbed with a watermelon.  Feel like I could mess up a one car funeral.  Like if I lost another brain cell, I'd be lonely.  Thanks.  I hope surely someone will be able to have experience with such mopes and despair.   I don't want you to be down, but only hope you're down real bad now and can relate to me painfully well.  

Thanks,

TED

Sounds like you need a break from chess.  Looked up two of your games and you resigned both on move 12.  Not exactly the fighting spirit you need in chess; sure there are times that it's polite to resign but you still had plenty of material left in both games.  Call a friend.  Go for a walk.  Buy a new hat.  Join a gym.  Take up karate.  Do some yoga or tai chi.  Something besides chess until your mood brightens; and if it doesn't, well, maybe you need to talk to someone about it...

Excellent advice man.  I have done many of the suggestions you provided and they've helped much.  

Glad to help.  I might have a little experience with mood swings myself...

Well, I believe most people do. What's helping as much as anything as reeling my mind back into the NOW.  If I didn't have anything to worry about, what would I find to worry about?  Bad habits are hard to break, but great habits are even harder.  Jr 33:3 / lots of kind people, and you r proof positive of this truth bro... 

"Every chessplayer should have a hobby." -- Savielly Tartakower

I'm a rodeo clown for the Utah City Parks and Recreation Department.  I want to be a granddaughter some day. Grand master rather

Wow!  I like Lawn Darts.  You're kindly down pal.  This might be a cathartic forum here for you to unload the insufferable burden you're bearing.  Kay is lovely name.  I guess I can see where being a woman amidst a mostly manly egoistic game might place you into a perceptible purgatory.  Do you frequent circuses?  Hang in ther Kay.  Okay?  We're here for you.  This is a safe place full of soft soap and wishful thinking.  Juggling lawn darts in fun

I had to lose thousands of games before I started winning consistently, even against the pooches that I typically played in those days. People talk about the qualities required to be a good chess player... pattern recognition, memory, imagination... but one quality that is often forgotten is sheer pig-headed persistence.

He's playing Chess960 with sentences.

Whiner, Cowboy up, get back in the saddle and keep playing until you are proficient enough to win.  Or you could take a break, both sound good to me.  How you been Brother?

BIG K

  I have always maintained  that I  would rather play a good game  and  lose, then play crappy  and  win. Winning a poorly played game on my part gives me very little satisfaction,while  playing  well does regardless of the outcome. Ofcourse  Id rather  play well and  win. this  has  happened  to me once in a  while. Above all, I love  playing this  game and  I try  to  learn  something  from each game  no matter the what the  final result may be.

@bgjettguitar > I've been there brother but what I suggest is to read a good book. A chess book! Silman helped me. I was so lost that I took a step back & re-evaluated myself with what I was doing wrong in my strategy. Try this brother I'm sure you can get there.

     Nobody asked me  but...I feel that even a good player  will lose 25% of their games...Draw another 25% and  win  50%...at your level....at best case scenario.

I have winning and losing streaks som as long as 8 games. Reading Bobby Fischer teaches chess. Good book.!!

I win 50%, draw 26% and lose 24%...almost with regularity. I've had very discouraging losing streaks and enjoyable winning streaks. But it seems to even out over time. Good book on Openings that may help you out: "The Penguin Book of Chess Openings" by Wm. Hartston. You could probably find it on Amazon, EBay, whatever. Helped me a LOT! The x factor is putting in some work and learning/practicing bit by bit. Don't take it too seriously ( I often do...), it isn't your life.

 Time to read a good book. All play and no study does not help one improve in chess. The Amateurs Mind is suitable for you.

     If  winning is  the only  way for  a player  to have fun playing Chess or  any other game  ,then  you have my condolences. I am grateful to have  the financial , the interest, and  the ability, to play a game. This  may be  difficult for many to understand but, I take joy in the  fact that I can play this game even at my level. I dont consider my opponents  as enemies but, rather as colleagues, who are struggling to achieve  understanding, and acceptance.

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