Many players are also bizarre. Yesterday one challenged me to a game, sent a friend request, and said he loved to play. Today he resigned the undecided game, blocked me for no reason, then I discovered he had deleted his account!
Chess is such a cruel game
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Good Sarah, misery loves company :D
Ok, even though I dropped allmost 100 rating points,
I just played the best game of my life. A simple copy.
I should quit chess now
Thank you mister morphy.
Aww, I've faced 3.Bg4 a dozen times and they never go through the whole game.
Good game though, great minds think alike right ;)
Thanks, but it's depressing that the best part of my chess is memory
i saw this game on morphy's pgn.
Jul 12, 2021
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I have recently come to a conclusion that: Yes. Chess, and all zero-sum games, are cruel (and I am a demon, so that means a lot).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
Because Your joy, and the suffering of the other person, always go together in this 'game'. - isn't that the very Definition of cruelty?
Example: White plays 1.c4 (English), you know he wants to fianchetto his bishop, so to win (without being a calculation master), you use a psychological move - b6 - you will take the diagonal first... so you win by frustrating your opponent... horrible...
Bobby Fischer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdfLFPwfhK4
As you get older, you get wiser...
Jul 12, 2021
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You can play against a bot - a chess program. Not tactically, you close the position with 1.d4, hoping it plays d5... if you close it compeletely, it's a draw. If you close it and have a pawn break, and the prog don't have a pawn break - you have all the time in the world to get king to safety, and organize your pieces... the machine won't know what to do:
Kasparov vs. Fritz X3D:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1269891
Jul 13, 2021
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Efreet_Sultan_1983 wrote:
I have recently come to a conclusion that: Yes. Chess, and all zero-sum games, are cruel (and I am a demon, so that means a lot).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game
Because Your joy, and the suffering of the other person, always go together in this 'game'. - isn't that the very Definition of cruelty?
Example: White plays 1.c4 (English), you know he wants to fianchetto his bishop, so to win (without being a calculation master), you use a psychological move - b6 - you will take the diagonal first... so you win by frustrating your opponent... horrible...
Bobby Fischer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdfLFPwfhK4
As you get older, you get wiser...
That is actually a very neat trick. And indeed cruel...
Most of us will never get half decent at it,
I'll lose most of my games like this, missing a hundred better moves:
Ng4 for crying out loud.
And then you'll play a game like the following that picks you up, giving you some hopen, only to throw you down even harder when you analyse it and see that you probably still played it like a noob and your next game will be a disaster again
Sometimes I wonder why I even play this game