Can you have fun when you keep loosing ?
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When you lose you suck. When you suck you don't have fun
fanachessMaster wrote:
When you lose you suck. When you suck you don't have fun
I went through the "losing sucks" thing. Luckily i got over it and learned to enjoy the game more than ever. And i htink that is the point...its a game. Its not life, or death. My life is no better or worse because of the outcome of a game.
Aug 27, 2015
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macer75 wrote:
trysts wrote:
Whip_Kitten wrote:
Language change is normal.
Conflating personal pronouns is normal. 'Thee' & 'you' (and 'thou' & 'ye') conflated to 'you.' Perfectly normal linguistically for a gender neutral pronoun, 'their,' to be conflated with 'he' & 'she' when referring to a gender neutral singular pronoun.
You can't prevent language change. Embrace it.
Thankyou, whipkitten, I kind of suspected that Ziryab must be wrong once he picked Jane Austin to criticize:)
Whether or not it's ok depends on the the context. In formal academic writing I would probably use "he or she." In fictional or informal writing I don't think using "they" is a problem.
Why is the "Thank" highlighted, Macer?
Ziryab wrote:
It is extremely common among Anglo-Americans who are dimly aware that anyone speaks a language other than English. If you carefully look through all threads on this site that contain this error, you will find the Stars and Stripes next to fully half of those who commit the error
Yes I first saw that strange mispelling on US forums.
As for losing, I think you can get something out of defeats. And by that I think we mean during the game not just after the game. For instance resisting defeat for as long a time as possible, perhaps set a target to resist for a certain number of moves once you see it's gone downhill. But obviously if you have a very quick defeat it's hard to get much enjoyment from it apart from it being over very quickly.
If you get beat very quickly, study that game, see what you did wrong and also remember how you were defeated as you might defeat someone else in a similar way.
Losing is not a time for fun, but contemplation. You did something wrong, find out what it is.
Aug 28, 2015
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TheGreatOogieBoogie a écrit :
Losing is not a time for fun, but contemplation. You did something wrong, find out what it is.
I agree with you, but at 62, my age, fun IS contemplation.
Do u think it is too old to play ?
When I'll be Kortchnoi age, I'll try it harder to see what was wrong in my games.
No one is too old to play! Steinitz became the first world champion in his 50s, and he played Anderssen in the finals! One of Tarrasch's best wins was his double bishop sac against a much younger Nimzowitsch.
Aug 28, 2015
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#74
But it must definitely be harder for an older brain to absorb the patterns of chess games in order to get good at it
Aug 28, 2015
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#75
yes for an older brain to absorb the patterns of chess games in order to get good at it is harder my pleasure is to play against young people ...and win. It happens sometimes. But I saw that many players make a lot of draws, I offer drws very often, it works !!
Aug 28, 2015
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#76
I personally think at my level that you can complicate the game as much as you like when you can still see that you can probably make a draw if something goes wrong
I dont recall ever loosing a game , I am sure I have never loost one ! 
Aug 28, 2015
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#78
If you say, oh, my goal was to loose, and you loost, then you meet your goal. and when you meet your goal that is pleasurable. therefore you must change your goal, change your attitude - you should want to loose! Then when you start winning, change your attitude back - you should want to win! Or if draw you should want to draw, etc. etc.
You control your own pleasure, it's not from some outer thing
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Reb wrote:
I dont recall ever loosing a game , I am sure I have never loost one !
Not even when you played against a competent Hedgehog player or play the Four Pawns agaisnt Alekhine's Defense or a KID player who can crack a broad pawn center at just the right moment? It's too easily to loosen one's position when one is tempted to grab space but all you do is give the opponent targets that can be hit simply by developing.