Chess is for sadistic people

You try to beat the crap out of your opponent and do everything to hurt them as much as possible.

You win and feel good about yourself. You tell yourself you're smart - all that time spent studying has paid off. You mock your opponent for their mistake, and tell them they are stupid and inferior.

You start a new game... and you lose. It wasn't your fault - you made a mistake and your opponent took advantage of you.

You repeat this over again and again, hoping to deliver a brutal, sadistic mate so you can enjoy that sense of superiority.

Go to sleep buddy.

Go to sleep Tommy, do not burst our bubble of superiority, we are not like tiger barbs, we are sophisticated and respectful HUMANS.

Really? I thought we were all masochistic....

Neither sadistic nor masochistic. And if at all then it matters whether one is rather good or bad.

In the end chess is just another playground to fulfill the wish to compete with other people.

People enjoy winning in chess because of the satisfaction they get from seeing and exploiting their opponent's weakness. You have to admit - delivering a 5 move checkmate feels much more satisfying than when he realizes it and immediately resigns.

Guys, I want to confess I posted this drunk last night. I remembered posting a forum but forgot most of it.. after reading this through it still kinda make sense to me.

It must have been a big one.

this person probably tried to get good at chess. never improved. got angry and just decided chess was for sad-do's. 

,Chess players including masters are actually nonviolent in general. Ever heard of a master involved in violence? If there is, must be very few in ratio to the chess players/ masters population.

Being sadistic or masochisic is not necessarily an indicator for being violent. It can be but there is no direct relation. So assigning the property violent to sadistic or masochistic people is not applicabe. It's just the personal affection / joy to the hurt and pain of the own person or another. Sadistic people can be violent, putting this on another level but that's not necessarily the case, they just enjoy others damage and at a small level malicious joy many people know, especially when doing some jokes. But they are not necessarily violent.

the truth comes out of a drunk mind.

Truth comes from sober minds. Drunks speak truth or knowledge by random luck. Alcohol is brain depressant, not stimulant.

public-image wrote:

the truth comes out of a drunk mind.

i feel incredibly enlightened suddenly :)

then you should enjoy losing even more given how you are making all your winning opponents happy.

So the thread here was worth it.

indeed it was :)