I think I LITERALLY AM STUPID

Troll thread aside, it's always disheartening to see how many people say "TL;DR" on a post that is a whopping 3 sentences, jumbled and run-on though they may be.  

Just play time controls preferably over 30 minutes each, and learn from your mistakes. If you don't even try to, thrn what you think would be true.

So what does TL;DR mean? I'm a noob, sorry.

"Too Long Did not Read" and of course it takes way too long to type that out, hence the abreviation. *snicker*

I weep for the future.....

Hey Spiritbro, we played twice in the London thematic tournament. I'm still waiting for the next round to start, it's going to be a lot harder. My goal is simply to reach the finals (last 6 or so). That one will be super tough. It's all to learn some openings. I'm in the Caro Kann & Slav ones also. I qualified for the next rounds in those too. Good games.

Hey, I'm the king of stupid mistakes. But I'd say if you're not having fun, if it's simply an exercise of frustration--don't do it anymore. I actually enjoy ferreting out my blunders and mistakes, and playing PI to figure out exactly where I've gone wrong. Check out my blog, I've made some real bonehead moves: http://www.chess.com/blog/OldChessDog

I remember. You beat me quick :) Glad you're still in the running. I'm currently waiting for the next round in a tournament as well. Sometimes these rounds take a while lol. Good luck in the next phase....

Thank you, good luck to you too.

Benzodiazepine wrote:

Mate, you're not alone, I think the same. I firmly believe it's the alcohol and drugs throughout my life that have seriously dumbed me down.

If you're taking drugs that are your namesake, then yes, they will literally make you stupider. Congrats on picking the stupid drugs.

You can't ask youngsters to have a long attention span.

As for feeling stupid, well stupidity is under-rated; some of the brightest folk I have known have been jerks and some who needed any idea explained twice in words of one syllable have been the funniest, kindest and most companionable.

If you enjoy your chess that is what counts. You probably will improve with practice but as long as you are enjoying your games that really does not matter.

Last time we played you were constantly expressing anxiety about how you weren't playing up to par.  I have experienced huge rating fluctuations, and the answer is either to stop caring about your rating, or take a break from playing(if you can't stop caring about your rating).  I made the mistake awhile ago of allowing my ego to be based on chess performance, which is a ridiculously narrow way to access mental performance.  I find that I actually often perform better in certain mental areas, or just need a change in my type of mental activities, when i am going through a losing slump.

i agree with the OP

I don't think that owning an exploding meth lab (as your avatar suggests) is any better.

Apart from that SSRIs, SNRIs and the forced antipsychotics have left me much worse off than any benzo dosage ever has.

Good advice.  Unfortunately, the OP has apparentlhy closed his account.

Was he literally stupid?

Really? You think this is a troll thread? It seems to me that the OP has a legitimate question.

I think, therefore i literally am ----Rene the cart.

While I can't disagree, there are some things to think about.

One of the things that amazed me, as I was starting to play chess (a few years ago), was that the amount of attention required for the games is rather amazing.  My initial question is: are you making these blunders more in blitz, or is your concern longer games.  My blitz rating (USCF or otherwise) lags 400 points behind my classic rating, and what I have known about chess at any stage of my rating progression is significantly more than my actual chess knowledge, as assessed by chess coaches.  Everyone deals with this in varying degrees, this "in-game chess awareness," let's call it, but I have had serious issues with it.  I think people have a natural relaxation period in which their sustained in-game chess awareness slowly creeps up to the level of optimal performance.  I think this makes a lot of sense out of what I (and maybe you) experience, but unfortunately the prescription could be moderately unhelpful: you just have to keep playing, and acknowledge that the blunders will slowly disappear.  You should be encouraged and tough it out.

An anecdote from one of my USCF games in my first year of play: I had finally crossed the 1200-level threshold, and I was coming on strong.  An A-class player made a mistake early, giving me both positional and material advantages, which I was able to convert into a mate-in-one situation.  Believe it or not, the came had dragged on so long that I must have become extremely tired and my chess awareness deflated.  I had mate in a couple of ways, but what I did was plopped my Q down right next to the opponents K, unsupported, and he just took.  I dropped my Q after very nice play, or so the members of the Pittsburgh Chess Club said.  It's not just a matter of living and learning, but also a matter of consciousness and heightening in-game chess awareness. 

Great idea: bump a thread created eight months ago by a user with a closed account.

Splitting infinitives is something up with which I will not put.

Oh... right. English isn't Latin.