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How long did it take you to get "good"
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I'm still not good.
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*hello darkness my old friend*
playing for 8 years from 18 to now 26 went from 850 to 1630
16 years and counting
My first ever tournament game as an unrated player I beat an expert and was "good". The next game I lost to a master and was "not good". 
CoffeeAnd420 wrote:
DreChess66 wrote:
16 years and counting
Not a shock that you supported Obama.
One of those " deplorables" no DOUBT !!
Somebody wake me up when are "greaat" Again ! If you can beat everybody in your inner circle of chess buddies they consider you Good. So then you join a chess club and find out, well you as not as good as you thought you were after getting destroyed a couple of times. It is a good question I feel I can beat the "average" chess player so I am pretty Good !!
mateologist wrote:
! If you can beat everybody in your inner circle of chess buddies they consider you Good.
Yeah, I feel pretty good, Believe me! I can beat three teenage nieces in my inner circle even when I am drunk!!
I feel so proud to be a good chess player!! 
drmrboss wrote:
mateologist wrote:
! If you can beat everybody in your inner circle of chess buddies they consider you Good.
Yeah, I feel pretty good, Believe me! I can beat three teenage nieces in my inner circle even when I am drunk!!
I feel so proud to be a good chess player!!
That is YOUR inner circle ! 
mateologist wrote:
drmrboss wrote:
mateologist wrote:
! If you can beat everybody in your inner circle of chess buddies they consider you Good.
Yeah, I feel pretty good, Believe me! I can beat three teenage nieces in my inner circle even when I am drunk!!
I feel so proud to be a good chess player!!
That is YOUR inner circle !
Of course it is called "Getting a Life ".
Getting a life is subjective, "you dont need to be impressed by a million women to get a life, you just need to be impressed by a woman"
In chess, you dont need to be a mentor of 1 million people, you just need to be a mentor of your kids.
"This is called Life", this is the defination of feeling good!!!
drmrboss wrote:
mateologist wrote:
drmrboss wrote:
mateologist wrote:
! If you can beat everybody in your inner circle of chess buddies they consider you Good.
Yeah, I feel pretty good, Believe me! I can beat three teenage nieces in my inner circle even when I am drunk!!
I feel so proud to be a good chess player!!
That is YOUR inner circle !
Of course it is called "Getting a Life ".
Getting a life is subjective, "you dont need to be impressed by a million women to get a life, you just need to be impressed by a woman"
In chess, you dont need to be a mentor of 1 million people, you just need to be a mentor of your kids.
"This is called Life", this is the defination of feeling good!!!
I agree with you there I taught all my relatives how to play, When it comes down to life mine has been a true fairytale the kind that good men dream about. But most of us have kids that we cherish, and have/had beautiful women that we have loved that is not feeling good, that is LIFE !!
Jul 8, 2018
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#132
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
ive been playing seriously for about 3 years, learned to play and casually played for 3 years before that. I'd say around 2150 strength USCF is what I'm at after 3 years of serious studying and a few years of casual experience.
you think? people are way more gifted at overestimating their strength than underestimating it.
Let's play then 
judge for yourself. I've seen what I can do.
Jul 9, 2018
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#133
Well, all I have to say is I felt pretty good when I beat all the patzers at my school's chess club, and blanked some unrateds at ACC, but it was a cold shower when I got smashed in the open section of a scholastic tournament. Maybe because I'm some teenager that I went from zero to sixty in a year and a half, probably because I didn't anything else to do. Now I'm some 1900 guy who's Trying to be world champ when i grow up.
Jul 9, 2018
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#134
CoffeeAnd420 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
ive been playing seriously for about 3 years, learned to play and casually played for 3 years before that. I'd say around 2150 strength USCF is what I'm at after 3 years of serious studying and a few years of casual experience.
you think? people are way more gifted at overestimating their strength than underestimating it.
Let's play then judge for yourself. I've seen what I can do.
I think guys reaching 2150 in three years may indicate that something is wrong w/ the USCF's rating system. Let's just start letting them play 1/0 for a "standard" rating? We're on our way there.
I kind of doubt this poster's claims. from 0-2150 playing "casually" in just three years would basically mean that the guy progresses faster than Fischer and Capablanca combined. No. And if he did do it (he didn't), it would mean that he wasn't studying and playing casually at all. It would mean about 80+ hours a week for those three years, plus all of the OTB tournaments he'd be attending. Doing absolutely nothing in your life but Chess is not being a "casual" player. Just the amount of playing the guy's done on this site alone means that Chess is pretty much the entirety of his life. That's not a "casual". That's someone who's devoted their life to Chess.
Three years casually before the three years of serious study. Learn some reading comprehension skills.
9 months and that bundle of joy was right in my arms.
Jul 9, 2018
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#136
CoffeeAnd420 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
CoffeeAnd420 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:
DarreionChase wrote:
ive been playing seriously for about 3 years, learned to play and casually played for 3 years before that. I'd say around 2150 strength USCF is what I'm at after 3 years of serious studying and a few years of casual experience.
you think? people are way more gifted at overestimating their strength than underestimating it.
Let's play then judge for yourself. I've seen what I can do.
I think guys reaching 2150 in three years may indicate that something is wrong w/ the USCF's rating system. Let's just start letting them play 1/0 for a "standard" rating? We're on our way there.
I kind of doubt this poster's claims. from 0-2150 playing "casually" in just three years would basically mean that the guy progresses faster than Fischer and Capablanca combined. No. And if he did do it (he didn't), it would mean that he wasn't studying and playing casually at all. It would mean about 80+ hours a week for those three years, plus all of the OTB tournaments he'd be attending. Doing absolutely nothing in your life but Chess is not being a "casual" player. Just the amount of playing the guy's done on this site alone means that Chess is pretty much the entirety of his life. That's not a "casual". That's someone who's devoted their life to Chess.
Three years casually before the three years of serious study. Learn some reading comprehension skills.
Haha...see, you just proved another one of my points on here: A lot of you just blatantly lie about your rating, how long you've been playing, etc. So, you've been playing for at least 6 years. I say at least because we already know you're a liar. The fact that you just - yourself - classify the first 3 (50% of the total) as "casual" doesn't mean it doesn't count. You can't say "I took three years to get to 2150". It took at least 6 years, if you even are a 2150.
Glad we got your complete bs story sorted out.
I didn't realize it was so hard to believe that if someone who already has a decent amount of experience with something decides to devote 3 years of time and energy into being competitive with it that it's possible they could achieve close to the lowest form of mastery. In total, yeah, it took me 6 years to get here. I just wanted to differentiate between the 3 years of not really trying to be great, and the 3 years of trying to be great. If you actually tried to comprehend what I wrote, you would have noticed that I didn't explicitly say that it only took me 3 years; I said it took 3 years of being a casual player and 3 years of being a competitive player. Also, I'm not really sure why this makes you so upset, but good talk anyway buddy.
I will never be good. my hope is to be not as bad as before.
"good" is subjective.