Have you ever played a nauseatingly bad game?

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Im not talking about win or lose, im talking about how it feels during the game. Im talking about when you boot up rapid minute game after some blitz or bullet (or whilst tilted or under the influence) and you wake up midgame to absolute carnage. Both sides hung mate 5 different ways for the past 12 moves, the queens were both blundered and the pawn structures are both horrific. This wouldn't be so bad until you remember both you and your opponent are supposedly in the "top 10% of chess.com users" and that none of that would fly in any of your other games. The worst bit is that game just goes on and on a tragedy of errors and once the ends (which will take absolutely FOREVER) you check the damage on game review expecting the accuracy to be around 3% but somehow the engine blesses the dumpsterfire of a game with like 80+% on both sides despite it being an absolute disaster. Whenever I have one of those games I feel physically sick does anyone else get that?
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If I had a dollar for every game I've ever played where I can say with near absolute certainty that both me and my opponent prayed that no one would ever discover its existence until the end of time, I'd had enough to buy and maintain a diamond membership for almost a year.

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Yes, I have had the occasional blitz game where you know the game has become something that's gone through the garbage disposal, and the engine agrees, blessing the travesty of a game with a game accuracy evaluation of something south of 55%. These are dumpster fire games where you know its garbage as you are playing it, cringing with every other move "How did I miss that? " ,"How did I get into this mess?", "Com'on, concentrate!", "WTH am I doing!? ". Not being satisfied with setting the dumpster aflame you feel compelled to leap in after and complete the fiasco. The real horror is when you think the game was bad, but not THAT bad, and the game eval doesn't even bother, it just says "FFS"

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Fr3nchToastCrunch wrote:

If I had a dollar for every game I've ever played where I can say with near absolute certainty that both me and my opponent prayed that no one would ever discover its existence until the end of time, I'd had enough to buy and maintain a diamond membership for almost a year.

One very nauseating game I watched was Claude Bloodgood vs Magnus Carlsen. It was extremely sad to see my beloved master Magnus fold within 3 moves against Bloodgood. This convicted murderer dismantled the world champion with such surprising force that I am genuinely at a loss for words.

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lunasantin wrote:
Fr3nchToastCrunch wrote:

If I had a dollar for every game I've ever played where I can say with near absolute certainty that both me and my opponent prayed that no one would ever discover its existence until the end of time, I'd had enough to buy and maintain a diamond membership for almost a year.

One very nauseating game I watched was Claude Bloodgood vs Magnus Carlsen. It was extremely sad to see my beloved master Magnus fold within 3 moves against Bloodgood. This convicted murderer dismantled the world champion with such surprising force that I am genuinely at a loss for words.

Shut it (respectfully)