Signs you're a bad chess player

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Ben_Dubuque

that isn't bad. for me anything past the end of my arm is just a blur without my glasses. I can't even make coffee without them. let alone play my guitar. or type.

nameno1had
jetfighter13 wrote:

that isn't bad. for me anything past the end of my arm is just a blur without my glasses. I can't even make coffee without them. let alone play my guitar. or type.

I recommend laying on your bed and playing your guitar in a dark room...It can be very relaxing as well as a great exercise to get you more used to playing by feel.

Ben_Dubuque

cool. I leave the lights on so that when my cat comes in to listen to me he doesn't scare me.

1RedKnight99
nameno1had wrote:

When your're better known on Chess.com for your trolling tactics than your chess tactics...

Especially since you play the Parham and your name starts with "whatup"

AlCzervik
chrisr2212 wrote:

i can't believe this thread is still motoring!!

here's what one guy had to say about this thread on NBC

 

Pretty sad when Brian Williams is slow jamming the lameness of a thread here.

finalunpurez
jrzmath99 wrote:
nameno1had wrote:

When your're better known on Chess.com for your trolling tactics than your chess tactics...

Especially since you play the Parham and your name starts with "whatup"

LOL. Laughing

Chemwong

-On your first move you always try to make a move with any non-knight piece.

-You keep asking "Can I move the knight at the first move" due to confusion with Chinese chess.

e4nf3

There are far worse things than being a bad chess player.

Though, at the moment, I can't think of any.

AlCzervik
e4nf3 wrote:

There are far worse things than being a bad chess player.

Though, at the moment, I can't think of any.

Think just a little longer.

ChazR

...you could be a bad chess player if you have to ask your mother, "What's the best move?"

e4nf3

Well, I did think a little longer.

The one thing that may be worse than being a bad chess player is...swallowing crushed glass.

Master_Po

IN the endgame, you forget which color you are.

e4nf3

You wrote a book: "How to be a Bad Chess Player".

Nobody bought it. Nobody.

And, you can't figure out why.

zman1234

Geez this forum really got popular while i was gone.

Signs you're a bad chess player: When you play with red pieces for black and you think that nobody can beat you when they play as them. (No, this doesn't sound like me at all!)

e4nf3

After four martini's  you feel that you are no longer a "bad" chess player. You take on all challengers, including the bartender. But, the man is a coward; he refuses to play you. So, you climb up on the bar and you shout to the room: "Chess! Who's next?"

Cowards. All of them. Not a one of the dirty rats in the joint have any cajones. Meanwhile, you overhear the bartender calling for a taxi. When the cabby arrives, you challenge him as well. Turns out...just another coward.

e4nf3

Oh, boy...somebody is spamming: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/debate-what-to-call-online-chess?lc=1#last_comment

e4nf3

You wake up at dawn, in a back alley, dishevelled, your wallet missing, the back of your head sore and swollen from where you got slugged from behind.

All because you went to this spammer's web reference...all because you are a bad chess player but you have hopes and dreams. All because you got a smash in the head instead of the secrets of the grandmasters.

ChazR

You could be a redneck...no wait...wrong forum...you could be a bad chess player if a bug-zapper is part of your home entertainment system.  How about this one:  you could be a bad chess player if you have two TV's stacked where one has a picture but no volume and the other has a volume with no picture?

e4nf3

Just because you get a buzz at playing 40 games of bullet during your lunch hour, and you only have a 600 rating, doesn't mean that you are a bad chess player.

You are having fun. That's all that matters.

RyanMurphy5

you worship thebackyardprofessor