I need help

You've created an idealized opponent in your mind - one who only plays the kinds of openings that you enjoy facing, and one who only plays in the style that you enjoy playing against.

Now, whenever an opponent doesn't fit this idealized version you have in your mind, you get frustrated, angry, triggered, tilted ...

You also get angry / frustrated whenever you make minor mistakes ... even to the point where you will resign over something relatively small.

In short, you're letting your emotions control you, rather than the other way around.

Let go of this idealized opponent that you have in your mind - play against the moves on the board, not the person.

Let go of these ideal openings and styles that you want your opponents to play with. Train yourself to think like a many-armed octopus - capable of handling anything that comes your way.

And be more forgiving of yourself when you make mistakes. We all make mistakes. Allow yourself to tip your hat to your opponent when they make good moves. Laugh at yourself when you make a bone-headed blunder.

A positive mindset will take you farther than beating yourself up all the time.

you are the best player i have ever faced in a very long time

Stop making multiple accounts then cheating against yourself for attention.

yeahh.... thats true

he came up to me suddenly and wanted to play and his game agianst me have been 90%+ accuracy

First game nowhere near 90% accuracy. Wife distract me. Then me kick her out and me win.

You played 90% accuracy too in 2nd game. That was all theory. Me opening master so me win with no distraction.

@ironstem1

Yeah, I'm not sure, but already suspected the first time... turtle kangaroo kid has cheated before (at least he said he has) so he knows how this works... I also think he's trolled, so he knows how that works too.

What makes me doubt it is this troll consistently uses punctuation more often so... I guess more likely it's 2 different people, but pretty sure turtle kid knows what's going on.

paper llama go back to grazing grass and stop calling everyone a troll, nobody takes you very seriously anymore

paper llama go back to grazing grass and stop calling everyone a troll, nobody takes you very seriously anymore

Hahahahaah very funny

And FWIW, it's what poker players call polarizing... you're either pretending to be very dumb, or you are very dumb, there's nothing in the middle...

Calling you a pretender is better than the alternative 😇

I think it's two different people, @paper_llama. But I've seen players do what you've described.

Going way back to Yahoo Chess days, there was a player who had the highest rating I'd seen. (If you remember, if you played there, the "Red" players were the high-rateds?) I don't even recall what it was, but it was something astronomical.

This account always played games against other insanely high-rated Reds, with brilliant wins every game. Undefeated. And this person had a fan club of players who would "ooh" and "ahh" at the moves during the game - to which the player would say things like, "Obvious mistake. Another one bites the dust, heh."

The game chat would be full of "Yay! Go! Crush 'em!" from their followers.

I suspected something and pulled up one of their current games in a database. It was lesser-known Bobby Fischer game, move by move.

Then I went back through their opponent's histories and saw similar names going back months ... all playing against each other, with resignations after 1 or 2 moves each time.

So this person had created dozens of their own accounts ... played them against each other to pad their ratings upward ... then created the "unbeatable" account that would defeat them all in live games ... by manually inputting the moves to decisive GM games from a database ...

All for the purpose of ... looking like a SuperGM in front of online fans on Yahoo Chess ...

It was one of the weirdest things I've seen, as far as online chess behavior goes. Extreme dedication to a bizarre ruse.

woah, cool story

but what would i gain by playing myself in unrated games?

I already said: attention.

ok

chess players are supposed to be smart, you should ask yourself why i would want it

But I assume you're not good enough to consistently use punctuation with one troll and consistently not use it on your main account... so yeah, my guess is two different people... but I'm surprised at kangaroo kid's reaction to the very obvious cheater(s).

Attention seeking is a common behavior, and you have a history of that already, with your topics where you ask for help improving but then ignore advice to keep the attention coming.

i could if i wanted but i dont care enough

i do not ignore advice, you come in claiming you are trying to help me. you do nothing. then you call me a troll like you do everyone