I'm done with Chess. Good Bye

well the only obstacle i see is that you are -negative-.

you are going nowhere with that attitude!

try having fun booooooooyyyyyyyy!

Old enough to know better ;-)

Quitting Chess?  You could be court martialed for that.    That's just not an option.  Sounds to me you just need a few victorys under your belt. 

Cheating? LOL. No game should last over 20 minutes?  This is madness. I believe this game was originally played with no clock and that time was introduced simply to regulate tournaments. 

I've never liked playing with the clock.  When I play OTB the average game works out about 30-40 minutes, the longest was about 90 minutes.

F me !! you're still here !!! u whiny little twerp ! why don't u go throw a tantrum down the mall, an' maybe mommy will pick u up, take u home an' tuck u up in bed with a cup of hot milk ! Fer cryin' out loud, get a bloody life !

Yep.

At any rate, I can really identify with what you are saying. But, if you want to be convinced to keep playing chess (and you'd probably alread be gone if that isn't what you're really after), then the first thing you have to change is attitude.That takes training too. You have to condition yourself to approach the game with a certain attitude and to feel a certain way in response to your wins/loses or good/bad moves. Try and decouple your usual emotions from the game and form a more detached state of mind. Don't judge yourself or think others are judging you (or judge your opponents for that matter). Just play the game to the best of your abilities and "let the chips fall where they may."

And Draughts, Checkers, Soccer, Football, Ice-skating, F1-racing, etc etc

Not even computers can play the best moves yet.. .Guaranteed 100% no players here make the best moves, they're all beatable. (Theoreticly).

Even if you're alwayts loosing you should keep on playing. 

nothing to do with chess at all - he just an attention-seekin' troll, as poly correctly diagnosed many posts earlier

Vlm2010, I personally could care less whether you continue to play chess or not, chess is game of character you handle a win with humility and you handle a loss with the understanding that you have done your best even though you may have blundered along the way, its sort of like life. You win some you lose some but we all go forward regardless of the outcome of our previous day.

Just so you know, only 10 percent of the population of the world that play golf can shoot par on regular basis, and of that less than one percent are good enough to play on the PGA Tour. The average chess player has a rating of under 1200, think about that! there are more chess players in the world than golfers. what percentage of them do you think are masters at the game, I would be willing to bet less than .005 percent.

Yes golf is hard, but being proficiant at chess to the master level is even harder.

Just keep plugging along, have fun and try to learn something.

Your Friend in Chess, John P C East Longmeadow, MA

John, dunno what world u is livin' in, but it a bloody sight less than 10 % of the world's golfers have ever shot par - never mind on a regular basis ! - most is rabbits - just like chess !

At least you have a decent Blitz rating. Most Chess players will never attain or surpass an 1800 rating.

I thought you quit, and here you are posting a day later after saying good bye to us all.  I also see you played some live chess today.  Not that it surprises me... but it is time to post a "I'm back!" thread.

 there is no harm from the positive feedback from the others is there ?

Hang on a minute, a goodbye thread and a proposed "I'm back thread"... all we need now is for some toady to create an "Eo Fan Club" group and we've got the full set.

Yahoo is a lot tougher ratings wise than it once was. If I remember correctly, they used to start people out with a base rating of 1500 and I believe they changed that to 1200.

That combined with the fact that they do absolutely nothing about computer cheating makes it extremely difficult to get the kind of ratings there that one could get without breaking a sweat in the late '90s.

 well... there have been alot of positive and negative feedback from the community, maybe that sound good for Eo to stay ? maybe alot of us feel the same way, quitting chess when we are losing and not getting anywhere.

Lol

Watch out that your freinds and family don't catch you. They may organize an intervention.

Bye dude.