Partially disagree, it's in our nature to dislike losing, however, you aren't having fun when you keep dwelling on the losses and let it ruin your mood. If you enjoy the game you would still care about the loss but you'll take it as a learning moment.
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Mar 23, 2025
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Sensei-T wrote:
Partially disagree, it's in our nature to dislike losing, however, you aren't having fun when you keep dwelling on the losses and let it ruin your mood. If you enjoy the game you would still care about the loss but you'll take it as a learning moment.
Just because it’s in our nature to dislike losing doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the game (to some extent) WHILE playing positions that feel lost. Even when it feels impossible to interact with the opponent’s pieces in a meaningful way, due to the amount of material that the opponent has managed to trap/capture. Right…?
Mar 23, 2025
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Sometimes I have fun when I'm losing, like when my opponent plays tricky stuff that results in myself getting checkmated, but sometime it can be not fun like if I'm making blunder that so obvious or simply misclick.
It can be fun to lose. On a related note, if you can't have fun when you lose, you're probably taking chess too seriously.
Do you agree or disagree with the above statements?