You're linking your own personal feelings with the more important general future of chess. I think most don't care about being a grandmaster, you do get some young people on the internet totally obsessed about whether they can become 'great', but I don't think the silent majority care about that, they just want to play those of a similar level to them and enjoy playing. It's mainly some younger people who play chess for an ego boost.
Chess has no future
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don't be anal. just enjoy the game for what it is.an enjoyable past-time.
starrynight14 wrote:
You're linking your own personal feelings with the more important general future of chess. I think most don't care about being a grandmaster, you do get some young people on the internet totally obsessed about whether they can become 'great', but I don't think the silent majority care about that, they just want to play those of a similar level to them and enjoy playing. It's mainly some younger people who play chess for an ego boost.
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And this scenario is different in sports, music, science, etc?
GM's are the elite of chess, as well as conductors on music, Ph.D.'s on academy...and it's definitely hard to get those titles.
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kaynight wrote:
Your right I do care a great deal, and starrynight makes a good point. it is my personal feelings about horrible experiences with the game, but I doubt I'm alone. Chess is unique from other hobbies or passions in that the ability to do well is directly linked to ones intelligence. I have found no other pastime that is so insanely critical, where one mistake and your out of the game. To me chess is almost like to egos clashing, and for me I sometimes just feel plain 'stupid' when I lose. All I'm saying is failure is really hard for me to accept, and I feel like I've failed with chess. Honestly, I believe the reason people get turned off from chess is because it's a competition linked to ones own intelligence.
OP cared enough to post he doesn't care. Just saying.
I don't get it. How's it linked with your intelligence?
Who is saying that you are stupid?
You should read this article. Particularly note that chess helps improve your IQ. There's more to chess than egos clashing.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/health-benefits-of-chess
Feb 15, 2015
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Omega_Doom wrote:
no ones saying, and that doesn't bother me; I feel stupid.
Who is saying that you are stupid?
Feb 15, 2015
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Chess is not unique in that it's "one mistake and you're out of the game." Try gymnastics or skydiving. At least with chess you get to come right back after a loss and try again. You don't spend time in the ER or the morgue.
Feb 15, 2015
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MSteen wrote:
what I mean to say is every move you make is methodically linked together, so there is a high amount of tension in making the best moves, and stress involved. That's why chess is unique.
Chess is not unique in that it's "one mistake and you're out of the game." Try gymnastics or skydiving. At least with chess you get to come right back after a loss and try again. You don't spend time in the ER or the morgue.
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MSteen wrote:
A person has to have years of practice and work to attain any level of skill. There is so much emphasis on rating that the game drives people bonkers, especially for a perfectionist like me.
Chess is not unique in that it's "one mistake and you're out of the game." Try gymnastics or skydiving. At least with chess you get to come right back after a loss and try again. You don't spend time in the ER or the morgue.
Yes, the game that's been played constantly, by hundreds of millions of people, for over 1,000 years has no future.
Feb 15, 2015
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Darth_Algar wrote:
well it obvious the average player really doesn't.
Yes, the game that's been played constantly, by hundreds of millions of people, for over 1,000 years has no future.
Chess is a game to be appreciated. It is a clever game, and yes, the cleverest have the upper hand but as one commenter suggested that is true for all walks of life. It is a game for the young and old alike, which is pretty rare. The future of chess is brighter than that of Candy Crush which is one reason among many chess rises to the point of consideration as one of the finer things in life!
Nekhemevich wrote:
Darth_Algar wrote:
Yes, the game that's been played constantly, by hundreds of millions of people, for over 1,000 years has no future.
well it obvious the average player really doesn't.
Most of the people who play the game are the average player. The elite players are very few. The average player doesn't worry about having a productive future in chess. Perhaps you have no productive future in chess. That's ok. Neither do I, neither do most of the hundreds of millions that play. Relax, stop fretting and just enjoy the game. Or not. If you can't then, yeah, it's probably not the game for you.
I suggest you play Snakes and Ladders game, Monopoly, Battle Ship, a simple card game called Paquet voleur in Québec or the Gofish card games.
All of these games have a future as there will always be new kids on the block and they will as we did enjoy playing these games. Who knows you might become a master mind game player.
Additionnally these games might be more at your level of play of any other games that you play a free benefit.
Yup. Chess was great in a past time...
bcoburn2 wrote:
don't be anal. just enjoy the game for what it is.an enjoyable past-time.
I use to believe that I had some productive future in chess, and now I'm convinced I don't. I think this is why chess will never be very popular. Too many people discourage people from ever succeeding, even after people succeed people still have something negative to say. The truth is chess will never be popular because nobody wants to be told they're stupid or made fun of. So yeah, I'll never be a grandmaster, but the truth is I don't care.