I quit chess for now. I hate this bloody game
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If you can’t accept your losses, then get out of the game . Someone loses some of of their precious rating points , what a shame ! 🤨
Agreed
Jan 27, 2022
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#84
B1ZMARK wrote:
Imagine being top 99.9% and quitting because you lost some online games
Top 0.1% 
Jan 27, 2022
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#85
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
TheFasting wrote:
The thing I like about chess compared to poker is that it has a lot of the same strategic elements but luck plays absolutely no part in it. Sure you can have a bad day, but the result is never up to chance. Strange how he can get to that level and still think the other guy won due to luck.
Nah. There are plenty of cases when luck happens in chess. Sometimes your opponent walks into what you just prepared for, and sometimes they don't. Sometimes your opponent has a random brain-toot, blunders a piece, and you are the beneficiary. Even the best chess players in history have the wrong synapse fire at a bad time and lose a piece. Were you good or just lucky? Sometimes you're playing online and your internet goes out and you lose. Sometimes you can remember what the theory was move 7 of some line, and sometimes you don't. The brain is subject to all kinds of stochastic processes that we don't have complete control over all of the time. When there are random processes at play, then luck by definition enters the equation because all good luck is, is an outcome that defies the probabilities.
I'd argue that's just a lack of skill on the other guy's part though. I'm new, so sometimes I just straight up forget how the horsey moves and blunder my queen. That's just me being bad at chess, not bad luck. Luck comes into play if the other player is having a bad day, but the outcome of the game is never up to chance as long as the rules regarding how the pieces move don't change. The outcome relies on your own choices, not luck. Your choices might be tainted by external forces, but they're still your choices.
Although if we start talking about determinism and free will, this conversation might get pretty long. 
Lmao
stay mad
Jan 27, 2022
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#88
Nope. You don’t need to talk about determinism, just math. If something has a positive probability of occurring, it’s a mathematical inevitability that it will happen, given enough iterations. Let’s say that my chances of beating Magnus are 1 in 5000. If I play him enough times (and don’t die first) I will eventually beat him. It’s mathematically inevitable. The stars will have to align, but it will happen.
Let’s say the first time I play him, the stars align and I beat him. That’s incredibly lucky. Let’s say the stars don’t align and that doesn’t happen until the 57,000th time I play him. Then I’m incredibly unlucky. The stars WILL align but I have practically no control over when since I try just as hard to win every time.
Let’s say the first time I play him, the stars align and I beat him. That’s incredibly lucky. Let’s say the stars don’t align and that doesn’t happen until the 57,000th time I play him. Then I’m incredibly unlucky. The stars WILL align but I have practically no control over when since I try just as hard to win every time.
Jan 27, 2022
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#89
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
Nope. You don’t need to talk about determinism, just math. If something has a positive probability of occurring, it’s a mathematical inevitability that it will happen, given enough iterations. Let’s say that my chances of beating Magnus are 1 in 5000. If I play him enough times (and don’t die first) I will eventually beat him. It’s mathematically inevitable. The stars will have to align, but it will happen.
lets talk about optimism then
dorthcaar wrote:
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
Nope. You don’t need to talk about determinism, just math. If something has a positive probability of occurring, it’s a mathematical inevitability that it will happen, given enough iterations. Let’s say that my chances of beating Magnus are 1 in 5000. If I play him enough times (and don’t die first) I will eventually beat him. It’s mathematically inevitable. The stars will have to align, but it will happen.
lets talk about optimism then
How about realism? Blitz rating means garbage. Stop taking it so serious.
Jan 27, 2022
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#91
You guys are missing the point entirely. It doesn't matter if we're talking about you playing Magnus or you playing the lottery. If you do either enough, you will win, it's just a statistical fact.
bro who the hell gives a crap. my opinion is that he quit cuz he bad so stay mad kid
Jan 27, 2022
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#93
If I read a simple book for basic review my chess.com blitz goes down to 1900. No.. no.. no... 
I hope it will go up again.
Jan 27, 2022
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#94
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
You guys are missing the point entirely. It doesn't matter if we're talking about you playing Magnus or you playing the lottery. If you do either enough, you will win, it's just a statistical fact.
you need 'samples' to make statistical facts. "My chances of beating Magnus 1 in 5000" is a probablity. Not a sample.
You need real datas to make statistics.
1 in 50 chance doesnt mean it happens once for every fifty try.
nighteyes1234 wrote:
dorthcaar wrote:
NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
Nope. You don’t need to talk about determinism, just math. If something has a positive probability of occurring, it’s a mathematical inevitability that it will happen, given enough iterations. Let’s say that my chances of beating Magnus are 1 in 5000. If I play him enough times (and don’t die first) I will eventually beat him. It’s mathematically inevitable. The stars will have to align, but it will happen.
lets talk about optimism then
How about realism? Blitz rating means garbage. Stop taking it so serious*.
Seriously*
MelvinGarvey wrote:
Sometimes, when I tilt and it goes on my nerves, I click on "new/next game" and yell "LEAVE ME ALONE!!" at the same time...
Go figure.
I understand the rage. I usually get extremely angry when I lose at chess games too but I usually calm down when I start a new one.
Jan 27, 2022
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#98
MelvinGarvey wrote:
Sometimes, when I tilt and it goes on my nerves, I click on "new/next game" and yell "LEAVE ME ALONE!!" at the same time...
Go figure.
I yelled quite a bit today, but thankfully nobody was home
Jan 27, 2022
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#99
MelvinGarvey wrote:
in the good ol' "Shut up and talk to me!" fashion
No, I just needed to let off some steam
