Chess and Self Loathing.

lollipophugo · 2017-05-20T07:10:12-07:00

I am well in the middle of a downwards spiral. Anyone can see that I have lost 200 rating points in blitz in the last week or so; even worse is the quality of play. I feel like I am well read and studious and I have well and truly clocked 10,000 hours (whoever said that was the magic number is incor

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Sep 7, 2025

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makki42 wrote:

It’s a board game….sorta sound like a buddy of mine’s grandmother b****ing about loosing at scrabble. It’s a game my guy. Being upset about loosing at a game is normal but to cry your heart out about it with a very long emotional post is sort pathetic…no?

Losing a game is indeed normal but your emotional response to it is extreme, take a break, even for a minute and think of it. What would you get in the end after it? Its draining you, when and why did you started doing it? Its not a solution but just a repeated cycle of endless pain. You're pushing yourself extremely hard (and i doubt it's just about losing a game)