GM Viswanathan Anand is a five-time world chess champion, and holds the eighth highest peak FIDE rating in history (2817).
His lifetime winning percentage is 60% (35% wins, 50% draws, 15% losses).
One of the greatest players in history, and he's only 10 points higher than your 50%.
Relax.
the best way to deal with it is categorizing it as majority of your games are wins, even if is only by 1 percent.
Better yet, dont care about ur win percentage and just play chess?
out of curiosity, how does everyone else deal with losing nearly half their games? i hate it. i thought after playing chess a bunch i would get better at accepting loss, but it's just as frustrating now as when i first started. how do you cope with losing consistently?
How do we deal with the fact that half of the people on Earth are below average intelligence?
Hint: The term "Average" is defined so that 50% are higher and 50% are lower.
Of course you are losing about half of your games. Whenever you win, your rating goes up so that you get paired against (on average) tougher opponents. When you lose, your rating goes down and you get paired against (on average) weaker opponents.
So... after your rating settles down... you will always end up facing a field of opponents who have a roughly 50-50 chance of beating you.
the question wasn't why is everyone losing half their games, it's how do you cope with losing consistently.
bro getting mad when you lose is normal
just dont take it out on something
The opening poster has won 58% of his games, so what is he talking about ?
In the past 90 days 100% of your losses have been resignations.
Think on that.
In the past 90 days 100% of your losses have been resignations.
Think on that.
Basically all of my losses are resignations, ever.
In the past 90 days 100% of your losses have been resignations.
Think on that.
Basically all of my losses are resignations, ever.
Same. OTB as well as online.
It's a game. Losing is part of playing board games. It is nothing to be upset or depressed about. Being diagnosed with cancer, having a close relative diagnosed with dementia, having a close relative die from COVID--these are things to become upset or depressed about.
losing doesn't bother me that much in and of itself. There isn't any shame in losing a game because my opponent played really well. However, losing a game because I played really poorly bothers me a lot. But even in that case I don't let it bother me for long. There will be other games to play with opportunities to do something beautiful in chess if I play well.
Tigran Petrosian was invited to a tournament shortly before he died of cancer. the tournament officials asked him how he would like to be addressed?
he responded what do you mean? they said grandmaster, USSR Champion, World Champion?
And he politely said Former World Champion.
they asked why and he said It's the only title that they can't take away.
EVERYONE LOSES enjoy the wins when they come. None are garuanteed.
@chessterd5 -- That was a wonderful story about Iron Tigran!
Another interesting thing to notice from chess history is William Napier considered the best game he ever played his loss against Lasker.
i dont play to many games if you want to improve you should focus on studying openings and solving puzzles if you play like 7 games per day your not achilly improving your just clicking the new game button contentiously
out of curiosity, how does everyone else deal with losing nearly half their games? i hate it. i thought after playing chess a bunch i would get better at accepting loss, but it's just as frustrating now as when i first started. how do you cope with losing consistently?
By being aware that everyone else loses approximately the same amount.
In the past 90 days 100% of your losses have been resignations.
Think on that.
Basically all of my losses are resignations, ever.
Basically all of my losses are checkmates, ever.
out of curiosity, how does everyone else deal with losing nearly half their games? i hate it. i thought after playing chess a bunch i would get better at accepting loss, but it's just as frustrating now as when i first started. how do you cope with losing consistently?
By being aware that everyone else loses approximately the same amount.
this is a great perspective to have!
It can't be helped. You will just get higher and higher competition until you start losing. The only way for it to not happen would be to be world #1. I think the very worst thing would be to be something like #3 in the world. Then, you would spend your whole life winning, and beat almost everyone, but these last two guys you couldn't beat. You would never be champion, and maybe never even play for it. You would just watch Kasparov and Karpov (for example) play five matches in a row over the course of more than ten years and you never be in that match. It would be soooo annoying.