What's your chess goal? 🎉

Everybody wants to improve,  but claiming people who dont' improve are simply not trying enough,  sure creates alot of future mass shooters.  When I heard Gothamchess make a video saying similar things earlier today,  I cringed and felt queasy because its such an ignorant and dangerous thing to say to people.  Especially for someone who makes a living off this game.

I would love to get over 800,  but i'm definitely not going to burn myself out anymore over false expectations.

Or you just have limited God given abilities compared to them and don't want to admit that.     There are 8 year olds who pick up the game and in 2 years are their rating.   Everyone is different and like you said its just chess.    But to act as if you worked harder you would assuredly be the same rating as them might be a false expectation you are giving people.  At least you found a way to mentally deal with it and convince yourself otherwise.

This is the same mentality that leads to cheating by stacking teams or undermining match maker systems.   A false sense of entitlement where you see the kids online nowadays say "git gud"  as they stomp some noobs and ragequit them out of the game with a twisted definition of what is competitive.    Its Leads to a a blaming  the victim mentality.    Saying its their own fault,  they did not practice hard enough.   It all leads to an unpopular game that is not respected by general society.  In the case of online video games its because we have not evovled enough yet to apply the same principles to online we have in the physical world,   but when it comes to chess its about outdated traditions rooted in a selfish desire to keep the sport unpopular so many can satisfy their egos and superiority complexes and feel more special for playing it.

The average rating on this site is only 800 and most players are rating 600.  Rarely do we even see accounts on this 15 year old site that are more then a year or two old.   I think alot of people on these forums are out of touch with reality.

I think it was GM Finegold who said a 700 rated player on this site can probably beat everyone they know in the street.   

Or you just have limited God given abilities compared to them and don't want to admit that.     There are 8 year olds who pick up the game and in 2 years are their rating.   Everyone is different and like you said its just chess.    But to act as if you worked harder you would assuredly be the same rating as them might be a false expectation you are giving people.  At least you found a way to mentally deal with it and convince yourself otherwise.

This is the same mentality that leads to cheating by stacking teams or undermining match maker systems.   A false sense of entitlement where you see the kids online nowadays say "git gud"  as they stomp some noobs and ragequit them out of the game with a twisted definition of what is competitive.    Its Leads to a a blaming  the victim mentality.    Saying its their own fault,  they did not practice hard enough.   It all leads to an unpopular game that is not respected by general society.  In the case of online video games its because we have not evovled enough yet to apply the same principles to online we have in the physical world,   but when it comes to chess its about outdated traditions rooted in a selfish desire to keep the sport unpopular so many can satisfy their egos and superiority complexes and feel more special for playing it.

The average rating on this site is only 800 and most players are rating 600.  Rarely do we even see accounts on this 15 year old site that are more then a year or two old.   I think alot of people on these forums are out of touch with reality.

I think it was GM Finegold who said a 700 rated player on this site can probably beat everyone they know in the street.