How do you feel after you have just made a gross blunder?

i try my hardest to calm myself and try to figure out how to salvage a now messed up position, but most of the time i just curse and throw my computer! lol~

I start cursing, and cursing even more, and then I feel my eyes get watery and then I start cursing even more and then I do homework and try to forget about it

I feel like Im going though an apocolypse and then take a shower.

I say to myself "I've been playing too long to do something like that," then I move on and continue because there's nothing that can be done about the blunder, except to learn from it.

I slap myself in the face...

At the end of the day my face hurts a lot. =(

Depends on the value in points that the blunder costs me.

1-2: Keep a poker face.

2-3: Grin in a desperate attempt to gain a phycological advantage.

3-4: Laugh hysterically, tell my opponent that "I know something you don't know, I'm left handed", and continue to play the rest of the game with my other hand.

5-6: Take off my shirt, wing in at my opponent, and assume the thinker's pose.

7-8: Slowly sink under the table, curl up in the federal position, and gnaw at my opponents pant leg.

9-10: Hurl myself onto the chess board and writhe violently, while yelling at my opponent to "stop using your Jedi mind-tricks." Might eat a minor piece in rage.

It's a hurting thing--when you blunder after you've just examined a better move.

^ If we all had kittens to barbecue . . .

I uncontrollably hurl dishes at the wall, curse my dog and sometimes open my widnow to flip off and scream at my neighbor. Oh! Throwing children into the village well also helps cool me down. But the calamity always settles when I look back at the screen and pretend how puny a brain my opponent has. Thats when all the genius moves come back to take me to my win. heck, i always win. So I guess I never really make blunders. You can call them "99.9% genius moves" I always shoot for 100%.

what really kills me is when i leave my queen hanging, then my opponent doesn't notice, then i forget about it and make some other move, and lose my queen when i could've saved it :(

I would get real upset ,espeacially if i had the chance of winning. I would also look through my mistake many times and make sure I don't do it again...

when I blunder (which sadly is quite a bit) and go

AHHHHH

Then just look at the position and see if that blunder really cost you the game

Then go AHHHHHH

Then go to sleep

I feel sick to my stomache as I see the stupidity of my moves unfolding before me. I get really depressed and I can't play right until I logon another time.

It depends on where I'm playing. In tournaments? I'll keep a straight face, because if your opponent sees you react, they're going to know you blundered. Sure, most of the time they'll see it, but it's always better to betray a calm attitude, because there's the slightest chance they may overlook it.

With friends? Sometimes, I laugh. Or I berate myself. And then I usually resign and go to stand in a corner for a while.

On the computer? It's the only place where I'll swear and throw something across the room.

There was one particular game earlier this year in which I threw my queen, though, and I bashed my head into the table for a moment. (This was during a tournament) You can only imagine the look on my opponent's face.

But one of my least favorite things is when people shake thier heads. I never know if it's because they blundered or because they're using some psychological ploy to make me THINK that they blundered.

But blunders are something that you learn from; all chess players make them at one point or another.

I'm sure most of you have already seen this, but those of you who haven't: even the greatest make blunders. I love Kasparov's eyes when he initally realises his error. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZqcT66Fkzw&fmt=18

very funny! i laughed...

I just laugh at my self and post a note that I'm nerd nugget with a little LOL after. Got to remember it's just a game of thought and most of us slip up from time to time. Well in my case a lot of the time.  The post above was very funny. 

Actually, I react differently OTB.

Step 1: I stay calm, praying in my head that my opponent didn't notice the blunder.

if did:

Step 2.1: Facepalm.

If not:

Step 2.2: Continue and presume it didn't happen.

I usually orders a family pizza and I eat and eat untill that dark lonesome feeling in my stomach that nobody loves me, and that I'm useless sets aside alittle. Then the feeling that I'm fat and a strong contempt for myself sets in instead.

Totally!

Except, I'll also excuse myself from the playing hall for a while in order to prepare the stink-palm I'll be delivering upon my resignation.

Sweet, sweet retribution.