As long as you think you can think.
CrimsonKnight7 wrote:
Thats one great thing about chess, you can still enjoy it as long as you can think.
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I am a youngester (54) here and have been just starting to learn the game. I play here for something to do so my rating is not so important as just trying to improve my game and my mental faculties. I have not been here very long but I do hope to be a chess geezer one day. Sadly I don't know anyone in real life who plays chess. None of my friends do. I hope to join the local club in my city one day and not embarrase myelf playing live OTB chess....
Keep playing and have fun!
The other reason you lose more games as you get older is that life throws progressively more responsbilities and distractions at you as you are faced with the choice between either pleasing the wife by writing to the council about your neighbour's aggressive leylandii or annoying her by spending an hour in analysis trying to save that ill-advised online knight sacrifice you made when you thought you were Tal in a moment of mid-life crisis.
We should stop making fun of our opponents youth and inexperience.
I like stomping on them. :-)
Oct 4, 2016
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Karpark wrote:
Glad to see that the reports of your demise were greatly exaggerated.
I'm 61 today. As I've got older I've found that calculation has become slower and that I more often find it harder to envisage 'candidate positions' (cf. Kotov) that might come in due course out of particular choices of move. While my tactical imagination is still as it was, and perhaps better for my greater experience of recognizable patterns, the outcomes of combinations and the like are now harder to see. On the other hand that same experience and more patience have given me deeper positional vision and strategical understanding (at least for someone at my own humble level). (I particularly find that I have benefited most from looking over and trying to understand well annotated games of the good and the great.) In summary I've found that there have been pros and cons for me. That said it is quite clear to me that my results in blitz and the like are now considerably worse than those in classical OTB or correspondence games in which I do markedly better. The other thing to mention is that as I get older I am much less perturbed by losses (though of course it's always good to win) and find that my (now greater) appreciation of chess is much more focused on the aesthetics of the game. These days I go once a week to a cafe to play chess where I meet mainly other oldies most of whom seem to think the same as me about this.
very cool summary, Karpark...thanks Happy B'day
I posed the link to the Geezer group because I thought it would inform some elderly patrons to the existance of the group. Its a bunch of good people who help each other and enjoy life. Our biggest problem in 3 yrs was once someone sat on my dentures. I tried to scream but the person couldn't hear me because I was sitting on his hearing aid. https://www.chess.com/groups/home/geezers
Oct 4, 2016
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#29
Us that are members of the geezers have fun, help each other in time of need, enjoy good jokes and share our little victories/failures in life. Come on over and try the group out! Geezers and Geezerettes are invited! I'm not as funny as RonaldJosephCote, but I do enjoy his humor! https://www.chess.com/groups/home/geezers
Oct 4, 2016
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I would think the longer you play the more experience you have! I lose more matches than I win!
We all do.
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Oct 5, 2016
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imsighked2 wrote:
The funny thing about young people mocking older people is that they, too, will be old some day (if they're lucky and take care of themselves).
Tell me about it! I can remember when I was 21. Now, at 41, I am the old guy having to play the passive openings just to make the game boring and drive the wild crazy teenagers nuts!
Against a 71 year old, give me 1.e4!
Against a 16 year old, give me the Torre or Colle (depending on early d5 or no early d5)
At 53 i understand my improvement level is somewhat limited, but the experiences are worth it. I will take the joy of the game, meeting new people, seeing old friends, seeing new places, and going back to favorite tournaments over the younger days.
Oct 5, 2016
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#39
sleepy55 wrote:
41 is rather young. The 71 will play Caro Kann and the 16 year old the dutch.
41 feels old. Foot pain when I wake up in the morning, arthritis kicking in with hip and joint pain if I sleep at the wrong angle, etc.
Against the Caro-Kann, I'll throw the Fantasy Variation at the 71 year old.
Against the Dutch, 2.Bf4, the Dangerfield Attack!
Oct 5, 2016
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#40
We all get to old age, eventually, if we take care of ourselves and don't self-destruct while we're young. I turn 59 next week, and I did a 15.4 mile mountain hike last week. In kilometers, I guess that would be about 24 k. I signed up for the Geezers. Chess is a great way to keep the mind sharp. It's fun to teach kids chess.
Glad to see Terry Thomas's demise has also been exaggerated also and he is using the name Karpark and living somewhere exotic.