What Does ''Patzer'' Mean?

A "patzer" is any chess player that is not as good at chess as you are.

not poor is BAD

Patzer is a german word and it only means blunder in english . 

You are referring to 'panzer' but perhaps you're being humorous.

I posted this in 2013 and all of a sudden I get a lot of comments. Sometimes the internet is funny  

I think patzer means a weak players in chess.

What does pizza player mean now ?

I thought they must be eating pizza together

lol

thats a panzer.... get it right

panzers are a tank not some animal

yea

Patzer is a player who is bad, but not because he/she is a amateur player or new to the game. A patzer might be intelligent actually and even know many things on chess theory but his/her ability to apply this knowledge suffers and therefore plays obvious bad moves even when time pressure is not an issue. The reasons for that might be so many:  inability to apply yourself to the task at hand, inability to concentrate for long periods of time, very bad board vision, mistakes in decision making over the board that you never bothered to fix, bad memory, not taking the game as seriously as you should, or simply because you play for years but never bothered to go deep in chess theory (too much practical experience but not theoretical), or studying too much but not playing too much (theoretical over practical experience), not being introduced to the game very young etc.

First, I'd like to disagree with the individual who said if you don't know what a Patzer is, you're probably a Patzer. I doubt I am one because I am brand new, and humble, and trying to learn the basics. If it's a bad player, then is every beginner a Patzer? And if Patzer is an insult or condescending as many say, then why insult everyone who's trying to learn the game? Don't we want more people?

Now besides my little rant (if it seems like one anyhow), I came here because someone in another forum said he got Pazteritis. Can anyone explain what that means? It's a change in his game supposedly, he read this or that and he ended up with Patzeritis. Does that simply mean he got worse? If so, why even say Patzeritis?

Thanks in advance everyone. I'm so excited to get better at Chess. I hope I can learn to love it, even as I feel so, so bad right now LOL.

A patzer is a poor chess player, like a 600.

We're all patzers until we stop making regular blunders. I don't know what rating that's at but much higher than me.

When I was at a tournament at Chess4Life in Bellevue, my parents are expecting me to win a chess game in a tournament, but I, no joke, DID NOT win a single game, because I was staring at the window and watching cars driving instead of focusing on the chess game, and a student, who is Indian, checkmated my king, because they think that I am playing worse than they do. I got grounded for not practicing enough chess, and my family said that if I do not keep practicing chess, I will be called "the worst chess player ever", or maybe a "Patzer". A patzer is a chess player who has bad skills at practicing chess and not improving. I even have fogs in my head because of this.

The German word Patzer means blunder.