Rating 90 maybe ? ( I donot know)
How bad can you be at chess?
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Sep 22, 2010
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#23
In due respect to the original posters question, I would ask when did you first start playing chess, and how did you learn. If you are a real newcomer to the game I would not even worry about my rating, the ratings are really not ment for one just learning the game, and may actually discourage a new potential chess player for life.
For a new person just learning the game, instead of getting into detailed strategy & tactics, learn to develop your pieces "fast", (that is a different piece each time), in your opening moves, targeting the center squares, try not to move a piece twice in the opening, keep bringing more pieces from there starting position into battle, and try to castle early, get those powerfull rooks into play. And never bring your queen early out in the opening because your opponent can bring new pieces out while chasing your queen around, you do that to your opponent. King or Queen pawns are a good choice for center of the board control, protect them with other pawns and your knights and Bishops. I used to play alot of games against myself, just to see how long it would take me to get a checkmate.
Last point, if you are having fun playing this marvellous game, then you are hooked for life as I am, and as I type this you will improve!!!!!!!!!! Bob USFC Life Member
What GhostNight said! (Excellent, excellen, excellent advice for someone starting out.)
If find that you are not enjoying chess anymore, read this thread:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/i-really-need-to-enjoy-playing-chess
GhostNight wrote:
In due respect to the original posters question, I would ask when did you first start playing chess, and how did you learn. If you are a real newcomer to the game I would not even worry about my rating, the ratings are really not ment for one just learning the game, and may actually discourage a new potential chess player for life.
For a new person just learning the game, instead of getting into detailed strategy & tactics, learn to develop your pieces "fast", (that is a different piece each time), in your opening moves, targeting the center squares, try not to move a piece twice in the opening, keep bringing more pieces from there starting position into battle, and try to castle early, get those powerfull rooks into play. And never bring your queen early out in the opening because your opponent can bring new pieces out while chasing your queen around, you do that to your opponent. King or Queen pawns are a good choice for center of the board control, protect them with other pawns and your knights and Bishops. I used to play alot of games against myself, just to see how long it would take me to get a checkmate.
Last point, if you are having fun playing this marvellous game, then you are hooked for life as I am, and as I type this you will improve!!!!!!!!!! Bob USFC Life Member
I started playing about five years ago. One of my friends taught me how.
JG27Pyth wrote:
eddiewsox wrote:
I believe there was a player on here who was rated 0.
I believe you are referring to the great timmaylivinalie who is to chess as Andy Kaufman was to Elvis impersonators.
haha..i just looked up some of his games...including the famous battering of a 1523 player..
well i say battering...
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=6696807
ramshackle wrote:
JG27Pyth wrote:
eddiewsox wrote:
I believe there was a player on here who was rated 0.
I believe you are referring to the great timmaylivinalie who is to chess as Andy Kaufman was to Elvis impersonators.
haha..i just looked up some of his games...including the famous battering of a 1523 player..
well i say battering...
Why on earth did white resign?
How could your FIDE rating be 676? I thought they just went down to 1200.
Sep 25, 2010
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trigs wrote:
How bad can you be at chess?
really bad.
see here.
You had a 1300 level opponent, losing a rook is not a lost game. That was a bad resignation.
Sep 25, 2010
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#31
woodshover wrote:
ramshackle wrote:
JG27Pyth wrote:
eddiewsox wrote:
I believe there was a player on here who was rated 0.
I believe you are referring to the great timmaylivinalie who is to chess as Andy Kaufman was to Elvis impersonators.
haha..i just looked up some of his games...including the famous battering of a 1523 player..
well i say battering...
Why on earth did white resign?
Friend alerted me to this thread -
I resign games where I'm not going to learn anything/be challenged as I don't care about my online rating. Not realizing he had a goal of 0 rating points, I ended up delaying him from his goal by like 200 games and well you can guess how pissed off he was.
woodshover wrote:
ramshackle wrote:
JG27Pyth wrote:
eddiewsox wrote:
I believe there was a player on here who was rated 0.
I believe you are referring to the great timmaylivinalie who is to chess as Andy Kaufman was to Elvis impersonators.
haha..i just looked up some of his games...including the famous battering of a 1523 player..
well i say battering...
Why on earth did white resign?
Bathroom.
Sep 25, 2010
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#33
DeltaDevil wrote:
trigs wrote:
How bad can you be at chess?
really bad.
see here.
You had a 1300 level opponent, losing a rook is not a lost game. That was a bad resignation.
i just fool around on live chess. i really don't care about my rating. not worth my time playing a rook down.
MikedaSnipe wrote:
woodshover wrote:
ramshackle wrote:
JG27Pyth wrote:
eddiewsox wrote:
I believe there was a player on here who was rated 0.
I believe you are referring to the great timmaylivinalie who is to chess as Andy Kaufman was to Elvis impersonators.
haha..i just looked up some of his games...including the famous battering of a 1523 player..
well i say battering...
Why on earth did white resign?
Friend alerted me to this thread -
I resign games where I'm not going to learn anything/be challenged as I don't care about my online rating. Not realizing he had a goal of 0 rating points, I ended up delaying him from his goal by like 200 games and well you can guess how pissed off he was.
It DID appear he lost all the time on purpose.
Can't you get the longer games you want by entering club tournaments, leagues, teams etc.? A lot of people only play longer games with some sort of purpose beyond the game.
Yes I could but the time I can dedicate to chess is rather unpredictable (young children, long hours etc), so it's hard for me to plan ahead enough to enter tournaments etc. This puts me at the mercy of the walk-in crowd