Luck in chess?
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Bad luck can happen depending on the person’s mood regardless of skill.
Jun 15, 2021
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#3
Sure, there's distractions, mood, tilting that can throw you off, but that's not luck
What is “luck” to you?
Philosophically, there is no such thing a luck, it’s all predetermined since the beginning of time, like a book written infinitely many years ago. Fate is our destiny, the matrix is real...
It's just to wish someone that they have a good game. You don't say "Good skill," do you?
Jun 15, 2021
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#8
I usually don't say anything unless the opponent does. I'm probably just over thinking it
why people think good luck mean to have good luck to play game? It's a polite sentence to start game, it's an idiom...
Jun 15, 2021
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#10
You end up in a worse position because of luck sometimes. You miss something you wouldn’t normally miss: luck. You win against a stronger opponent who was just a little thrown off by a strong move. He doesn’t see the refutation. Probably if it wasn’t rapid or blitz it wouldn’t have such an effect, & probably he’d have seen the refutation if he was just a little more patient: luck.
Jun 15, 2021
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#11
Any time things are determined by seeming random or incalculable vicissitudes.. unforeseen variables that change the course of things that will power seeks to control, then we can say it’s luck.
Jun 15, 2021
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#12
I've considered that point of view but then the person saying good luck means: here's to me screwing up somehow. I think it's more of an idiom as kakou pointed out.
Jun 15, 2021
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#15
Luck exists in chess tournaments. In a swiss system tournament, you have no control over who you will be paired against, or which color you will get against them. Getting to play White against an opponent who is only a bit stronger than you might give you just the edge you need.
jamhan738 wrote:
It's just to wish someone that they have a good game. You don't say "Good skill," do you?
The phrase is actually "may the best man win", so there is one 
...it's just not a good phrase either.
"Show me your best game" would be a pretty good phrase to impart to opponents before a game, I think, providing you don't say it with a sneering undertone.
Jun 15, 2021
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#17
snoozyman wrote:
Philosophically, there is no such thing a luck, it’s all predetermined since the beginning of time, like a book written infinitely many years ago. Fate is our destiny, the matrix is real...
And scientifically, randomness is built into our universe at the subatomic level.
Whether and in what way that randomness scales up to the macro world is a different question.
Jun 15, 2021
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#18
Qaizr wrote:
I know it's a nice thing to say . . . am I missing something?
No.
also its just sometimes meaning getting something out of it, like a new opening, not about WINNING the game.
I always wonder when people say "good luck" before a game where's the luck in chess? I know it's a nice thing to say but it just seems weird to me since chess is 100% skill. Am I missing something?