Butt Whipped!

After MUCH help from my friends here on Chess.com, I was able to track down a coach and a chess club near my area. I went to go check it out last night. There was a nice mix of about 5-6 guys (no ladies lol) and I asked, "who is the beginner"? The man who runs the place pointed to a guy about my age and we play. Now, by beginner, I was thinking new, weeks playing, to a few months playing experience... I was really nervous having never played a game face to face and blundered third step in giving up my knight. I collected myself and kept playing but I could tell that one move ruined me. I ended up resigning. We shake and I am really embarrassed and ask him how long he has been playing. "ohhhh...11 years or so." ! What! So there is multiple implications in that. 1st I don’t feel so bad. 2nd...how long does it take to not be a "beginner". Maybe they were being facetious....I don’t know, but they were great and I'll end up joining. I played an older gentlemen who was really very good as well...lost to him....lol. At this point I knew these guys were 2000+, maybe a few 1500...or so.

I learned some VERY important lessons:

1. People DO NOT PLAY LIKE COMPUTERS!

2. You can make a mistake or two or three with a computer, but these guys will gobble you up with one blunder/serious error.

3. Chess is awesome.

After I practice enough I plan on getting rated. Thanks for everyone on this site. I owe it to you guys for helping me learn this awesome game.

Mike

I watched you go 40 moves in a game without hanging anything by accident.

Here you did it in 3?!

Lol that okay though. chess makes everybody feel like a beginner somedays. Even old farts like me.

glad you enjoyed it. i still haven't made it to my local chess club. the lowest player listed on their website is 146 ecf, which is about 1800 fide i think, but i will end up going along soon as i like playing face to face more than over the computer.

and yes, people definitely do not play like computers. when you set the difficulty level of a chess engine to play at a low strength it just changes the amount of times they throw in blunders. you would be much better off practicing by playing live chess on here than playing against a computer. 

That is true, it is much trickier to design a computer to play weaker than stronger. Irony

I was so nervous. Let me tell you something else, when you stare at a computer board all the time, then look at a real one (because you are on an angle), it makes you (me at least) as a beginner mess up. I didn't pull no epic losing moves in the second game though even though he still won.

The computers on chess.com are incredibly unrealistic.

A game I played against the medium computer:

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=403661793

14...Qxd3 - would any human play that?

Mines in 3d

lol. birds eye 3D view!

Bazinga!!

Ill challenge you to Sheldon's three person chess anyday. After all how can you pass up a version of chess that has two new pieces called "the serpent" and "the old woman" lol

What about his version of "rock, paper, scissors,spock"?lol.

Thats it! one of the most funny ones with Kryptkey

Did you see the out-takes for that! It took him 40 minutes to get it right! lol!

The one where kwiptkey and sheldon with the basketball for the office. Jees it's endless..I got the 3rd in the new series tonight..brilliant

Rock crushes lizzard..Lizzard poisons Spock

Spock vaporizes rock (and my personal favorite)

paper disproves Spock

What was wat ..say wat again

It's in Wiki..Spock smashes scissors

It should be Spock mind melds with the rock and crushes scissors

Is there any way to get Picard into this.