Chess makes me feel inadequate.

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I find chess to be insulting. 

After many years of practice and reading of chess, why can't I have a rating of 2000+? It's not fair. 

Farmers from India and Pakistan are able to beat me. 

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Learn the way of the farmer to increase your rating. Many of the great grandmasters started their chess careers toiling in the field and honing their chess skills in the barn with chickens

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Then accept it or don't play.

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More jibberish.

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Uhohspaghettio1 wrote:

I find chess to be insulting. 

After many years of practice and reading of chess, why can't I have a rating of 2000+? It's not fair. 

Farmers from India and Pakistan are able to beat me. 

If you have a chess rating of 1500, then you are already better than 99% of the people who have ever tried to play chess. Keep some perspective.

But if your concern is that farmers or foreigners can beat you, then most likely your problems are personal and have nothing to do with chess.

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zembrianator wrote:

Learn the way of the farmer to increase your rating. Many of the great grandmasters started their chess careers toiling in the field and honing their chess skills in the barn with chickens

My dad was a farmer. Because of the workload he didn't think it was a good way of life. 

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sex makes me feel inadequate, but I haven't given up on it yet.

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looks like you're playing a lot of 3 minute blitz.  so that's like saying that after years and years of gulping your meals in two bites, you never got skilled at chewing.  

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SeanHarper15 wrote:

Wait.. what? Sex? Or chess? Or farming...

Yes.

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The quicker I beat my opponent in sex, the more inadequate they feel.

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Reaching a 2000 rating is not the same as becoming a pro NBA player where if you arent tall enough , you just cant do it . If what you are currently doing is not working change it , and be consistent with it . Thinking that it is "not fair" is not the right attitude .

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Chess is only a game=enjoy playingSmile

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Being from Pakistan, I didn't know our farmers were so famous abroad for their chess skills. I only thought they were good with wheat, sugar cane, tractors, and other stuff, not chess.

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zembrianator wrote:

Learn the way of the farmer to increase your rating. Many of the great grandmasters started their chess careers toiling in the field and honing their chess skills in the barn with chickens

That's called "fowl play" --not very similar to chess

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Uhohspaghettio1 wrote:

I find chess to be insulting. 

After many years of practice and reading of chess, why can't I have a rating of 2000+? It's not fair. 

Farmers from India and Pakistan are able to beat me. 

I blame Obama-sama. If we all voted for Romney-kun, this never would have happened.

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That reminds me of the one about the chessplayer's daughter... Smile

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farrukhmba wrote:

Being from Pakistan, I didn't know our farmers were so famous abroad for their chess skills. I only thought they were good with wheat, sugar cane, tractors, and other stuff, not chess.

Actually, it's just that the OP doesn't understand that a farmer from Pakistan is just a dude (or dudette) with the same intellectual potential as anyone else. 

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Graywacke wrote:
farrukhmba wrote:

Being from Pakistan, I didn't know our farmers were so famous abroad for their chess skills. I only thought they were good with wheat, sugar cane, tractors, and other stuff, not chess.

Actually, it's just that the OP doesn't understand that a farmer from Pakistan is just a dude (or dudette) with the same intellectual potential as anyone else. 

the OP should do those memory tests with Ayumu the chimpanzee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPKmcT4lZDk

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if you feel poorly about chess it is because it is the"mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of all ?"..the answer is not found by sending out the huntsman to kill snow white ( the heart of a doe ) but to look harder into the mirror and understand that is your ego which denies you an elevation to another 100 points.  ( i could tell you more but i am called to find the "one true ring"..the real "one true ring"...that which even sauren is not aware of ).

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the muslims of pakistan kill christians.

they treat pakistani christians as low life.

i speak truth which will be denied.

i do not lie.