I find that most often adults behave worse than children (and then complain about how poorly behaved children are).
Is the USCF primarily for Children ?
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Dec 6, 2015
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#63
Darth_Algar wrote:
I find that most often adults behave worse than children (and then complain about how poorly behaved children are).
And I was thinking of writing "One adult swore outside the playing hall after losing a game" and "one adult coughed on me and mychess set". Great minds think alike.
Dec 6, 2015
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#64
It's so rare it's hard to compare whether there are more bad adults or bad kids... at least from my experience. But for sure age is no barrier for bad behavior.
If you enjoy chess you'll probably enjoy a tournament. What's likely is you'll find everyone there loves to play and analyze and are very polite during and after the games.
Appreciate the input on this. I knew I'd face more children than adults based on other threads here and really have no problem with that. I really like the fact that so many kids are into chess. I'll go play and see for myself, it's something I've always wanted to do.
umirin1991 wrote:
Speaking from personal experience, most of the kids from India/China are only playing because their parents think their kids are going to be the next Vishy Anand/Ding Liren/Wei Yei.
90% of those kids would rather be doing something else like playing soccer or video games with their friends but are too respectful towards their parents to speak up.
This comment is incredibly racist and based on currently popular but nonetheless inaccurate stereotypes of so-called "tiger parents." In my experience, white parents are just as likely to push their children to excel in chess/sports/academics (and more prone to loud outbursts during chess games or soccer matches).
Chess is a game for tots, toddlers and socially recessive teens.
The real quiestion is why you are still playing a scholastic childrens pasttime?
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huh?
That's one way to get rid of ear hair.
Dec 8, 2015
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pt22064 wrote:
umirin1991 wrote:
Speaking from personal experience, most of the kids from India/China are . . .
This comment is incredibly racist . . .
In my experience, white parents are . . . more prone to . . .
Ok so, by your own standards you're also "incredibly racist" right?
Feb 27, 2020
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#73
Being from scholastic myself even though it was highschool I couldn't say I have every played around anyone under 12 accept for one non-scholastic tourney there was a 9 year old indian kid but he just kept to himself studying the board and playing chess during his downtime. Its not the kids, its the facility management letting little kids do what they want.
you people are scaring me. I'm 64 and looking to start playing some OTB tournament chess. It's a bucket list kind of thing. What should I expect coming in as an Unrated player? Any advice is greatly appreciated, there's a tournament in a month that I thought would be a good jumping in point.
After years of online play my first tournament, for whatever reason, I chose to be a state championship (there are sections, I wasn't playing any GMs). Can't remember if they had an unrated section. If not I was in the U1200 section.
My first game was against a 10 year old rated around 1000. Shook hands before the game, during the game everyone was quiet, he never left the board, we shook hands after the game. In other words everything was normal. The OP reads like a horror story, I've never seen a tournament like that. Sometimes adults and kids get noisy after their games but people (or the TD) usually shush them and they leave the area.
In terms of play I was nervous after 10-15 moves because even though he was rated so low he developed all his pieces, castled, and hadn't blundered any pieces or pawns yet. But soon enough he allowed a simple fork and I went on to win later.
Also I probably took him as a weak player because of his age... which is a mistake. Kids are some of the best players. This is maybe 15 years later and in my most recent tournament my only loss was to a ~10 year old who won all his games lol.