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Is there such thing as "luck" in chess?
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Jan 29, 2025
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#4283
Tempetown wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
nope. really. if you beat someone who blundered it is because you were more skillful in the game than he was. luck has nothing to do with it
What if the person you are playing is distracted because she just received a cancer diagnosis. Does that mean she is less skillful than you?
many players play less skillfully than they are capable for any number of reasons. but again, that is not luck. its skill--or lack thereof.
I'm pretty sure you don't actually go through life using such rigid categories and expecting reality to fit your narrow definitions. Then again, maybe you do...
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Oh the irony of someone with no skill at chess giving lectures on what skill means.
im 2150 uscf. what are you?
How about I come to your house and we play OTB for 10 grnad?
Tempetown wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Oh the irony of someone with no skill at chess giving lectures on what skill means.
im 2150 uscf. what are you?
How about I come to your house and we play OTB for 10 grnad?
do you even have 10 grand?
shadowtanuki wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
nope. really. if you beat someone who blundered it is because you were more skillful in the game than he was. luck has nothing to do with it
What if the person you are playing is distracted because she just received a cancer diagnosis. Does that mean she is less skillful than you?
many players play less skillfully than they are capable for any number of reasons. but again, that is not luck. its skill--or lack thereof.
I'm pretty sure you don't actually go through life using such rigid categories and expecting reality to fit your narrow definitions. Then again, maybe you do...
again, read 5529
oh ibrush, where are you? $10k OTB! we can see who is being ironic!!!
Tempetown wrote:
oh ibrush, where are you? $10k OTB! we can see who is being ironic!!!
crickets. im sooo surprised
ibrust777 wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Oh the irony of someone with no skill at chess giving lectures on what skill means.
im 2150 uscf. what are you?
How about I come to your house and we play OTB for 10 grnad?
If you came to my house I would just beat your aŠŠ and throw you out.
maybe in your dreams that would happen...
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Oh the irony of someone with no skill at chess giving lectures on what skill means.
im 2150 uscf. what are you?
How about I come to your house and we play OTB for 10 grnad?
If you came to my house I would just beat your aŠŠ and throw you out.
maybe in your dreams that would happen...
ive seen your pic, dude. youre a scrawny little guy.
are you actually threatening me now? you really are a dumbasss
sure you do. google yourself
in any event you are too cowardly to play me for money. tough tallk, though
i asked if you wanted to play otb, dumbass. if you are too cowardly, so be it
ibrust777 wrote:
I'm issuing the threat that if you show up on my property I will beat you and I will be armed, yes. And I am within my legal rights to do that, and to let you know that ahead of time.
again..you might beat me in your dreams
ibrust777 wrote:
Sorry, you got the wrong profile. My facebook profile is the same rat picture I use online, I do not have a picture of myself. Keep trying
nope. i got you. not facebbok. try it youself if you dont believe me
Jan 29, 2025
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#4297
Tempetown wrote:
ibrust777 wrote:
Well, you know, there are a small number of people who go their lives always or almost-always being the smartest person in the room. That's just a statistical reality.
Agreed. But for everyone that actually IS the smartest person in the room, many others are of the false notion that they are the one. YOU fit into this second category.
The two of them - 'ib' and the Guy - obsess over 'intelligence levels'
Especially the Guy. He's got that problem very very badly.
ibrust777 wrote:
I don't have any other profile I use online. My linkin has no pic on it... I don't take pictures.
Anyway, go away.
nope
ibrust777 wrote:
I don't have any other profile I use online. My linkin has no pic on it... I don't take pictures.
Anyway, go away.
got your phone and address too!
Jan 29, 2025
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#4300
KestrelPi wrote:
playerafar wrote:
KestrelPi wrote:
If I'm truly honest I don't think anyone is exactly covering themselves in glory right now. But you get this rather a lot in Chess discourse, I've seen. Everyone needs to be seen as the smartest person in the room, and put them all in the same room and the result is often not pretty.
Maybe just relax, this discussion, which, just to remind, is about the concept of luck in chess, not ... say a murder someone did, is not particularly high stakes. It's kind of an idle semantic amusement, at best. Interesting maybe, but not really... important. It's a weird thing to hurl insults over for hours, and a very weird thing to go rooting around in people's linkedin profiles over.
"Everyone needs to be seen as the smartest person in the room"
No. Not everyone.
Very few in fact.
With one particular person having that problem very severely and for ten years now. He'll always try and claim its somebody else though. Its called projection.
You must --surely-- understand that I meant 'everyone' in the colloquial sense of 'lots of people'. I disagree with your assessment of 'very few' people. I've been a part of many communities and am fairly new to Chess, but in the few months I've been around I've never seen so many people in such a hurry to try and prove how smart they are (or how smart someone else isn't), and what's carried on in this thread for the past couple of hours is a perfect illustration of that. It's blown so out of proportion. It can't just be that someone has different ideas, no it has to be that they're fundamentally stupid or inferior, and for what? An interesting but ultimately trivial conversation about luck.
I hope that spending a longer time here will prove me wrong and I'm sure there are loads of people in Chess who aren't like this at all, but right now this is just an embarrassing fight we're seeing, nobody should be proud of this.
You seem to admit that you're exaggerating K.
And probably you're aware you're exaggerating on both points.
Both with 'everyone' and 'smartest'.
Again - very few have the 'problem' as you describe it.
And those few tend to have a lot of trouble with disagreement.
You're probably not one of those.
You and I disagree on 'exaggeration'?
We might continue to disagree but so what?
Try - nobody cares! 
I've got to add to this post but got to scroll back to do so.
Oh the irony of someone with no skill at chess giving lectures on what skill means.
im 2150 uscf. what are you?