Chess Brain Farts

I've always felt that chess reveals every form of brain freeze, brain fart,  meltdown, "senior moment" - whatever.  Playing here last night proved it and I was the guinea pig.

In one game I intended to castle O-O, followed by Rf1-e1.  And so it was done - not!  I "castled," but when I went to play the rook to e1,  no rook could be found!  In a dumb "fingerfehler" I had played Ke1-f1 instead,  an didn't even notice.  "O well," I figured, "the queen will work as well as a rook,"  and played Qd1-e2 - which was met at once by ...Bc4, pinning Queen to King.  I then made the only sensible move in this sequence by. . . resigning.

In another game my opponent, White,  played 1. d4. So I played my usual Scandinavian Defense with 1... e5??!? Scandinavian?  No!  The Englund Gambit,  about as unsound a gambit as you can find!  I had completely reversed the board, all because of a brain freeze making me forget the difference between a d-pawn and an e-pawn. 

This kind of stuff is LOL -- the day after.  It  even happens in top GM games,  more often than you'd think!

welcome to chess 😁

I remember seeing a game like that (d4-e5) recently in one of the news articles. I believe the e5 player went on to win, and that they were both top players.

you can set up the game so that you have to confirm each move. I have it set up that way on my phone, but not pc. that should help

E I've always felt that chess reveals every form of brain freeze, brain fart, meltdown, "senior moment" - whatever. Playing here last night proved it and I was the guinea pig.

In one game I intended to castle O-O, followed by Rf1-e1. And so it was done - not! I "castled," but when I went to play the rook to e1, no rook could be found! In a dumb "fingerfehler" I had played Ke1-f1 instead, an didn't even notice. "O well," I figured, "the queen will work as well as a rook," and played Qd1-e2 - which was met at once by ...Bc4, pinning Queen to King. I then made the only sensible move in this sequence by. . . resigning.

In another game my opponent, White, played 1. d4. So I played my usual Scandinavian Defense with 1... e5??!? Scandinavian? No! The Englund Gambit, about as unsound a gambit as you can find! I had completely reversed the board, all because of a brain freeze making me forget the difference between a d-pawn and an e-pawn.

This kind of stuff is LOL -- the day after. It even happens in top GM games, more often than you'd think!