My worst games ever, THE worst games ever

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tamdao

On this site, the opponent I've played the most with is my friend Jonathan.  About 1/3 of my games have been played with him.  In fact, my worst games have been with him.  I wish that it could have been me to brag about this, but I was actually the one that allowed myself to be mated in three moves.  Yes, THREE.  Not much to see, but here it is:

... granted, I had only learned to play a month and a half prior to that game.

But I didn't learn my lesson and not too long after that, it happened again in five moves:

SisyphusOfChess

Well, they say chess is all about pattern recognition. It looks to me like you learned two patterns! Wink

verslest

hihihi !

verslest

she could have said that she beat me all the time now...

tamdao

@SisyphusofChess: i am so scared/scarred now from these two games... i really, really hope i've learned a lesson! Tongue out

@verslest: you know i can't beat you like that!

WildFireMayhem

When you are starting out it's generally a bad idea to lift that f pawn early.  You'll cut back on a lot of these kind of checkmates if you adhere to this advice. Smile

nuclearturkey
tamdao wrote:

On this site, the opponent I've played the most with is my friend Jonathan.  About 1/3 of my games have been played with him.  In fact, my worst games have been with him.  I wish that it could have been me to brag about this, but I was actually the one that allowed myself to be mated in three moves.  Yes, THREE.  Not much to see, but here it is:

... granted, I had only learned to play a month and a half prior to that game.

But I didn't learn my lesson and not too long after that, it happened again in five moves:

 

The worse the games the better. Seriously, you learn the most in those type of games.

tamdao
WildFireMayhem wrote:

When you are starting out it's generally a bad idea to lift that f pawn early.  You'll cut back on a lot of these kind of checkmates if you adhere to this advice.


honestly, i am scared of lifting any kingside pawns in the opening now! Embarassed

tamdao
nuclearturkey wrote:
The worse the games the better. Seriously, you learn the most in those type of games.

then i should be soooo good now.  there are not many worse than these!