What's your chess goal? 🎉

I think within this year, I lost count on recycled accounts and cheaters.

I wouldn’t disagree there is a mixed bag on this site.

I have decided to pick and choose my battles now to mitigate the exposure. In the last few months, I’ve must of lost about 50+ points to cheaters.

I still chuckle that a 1200 knows the Grunfeld-Amsterdam variation, never mind know it but execute it deep lol

My old goal was 1500 daily and 2000 puzzles. That accomplished, my new goals are:

A) Never ever blunder my queen, never ever again!

B) Never not see a discovered attack coming my way.

C) Defeat Magnus Carlsen 10 straight times.

D) Never fall prey to  a knight fork.

Three of the four goals can quickly be achieved to 100% perfection by retiring instantly from chess.

My fertile childlike imagination makes the other one possible in my head.

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

This is true, but is beating random people on the street at chess really an accurate indicator of skill? Beating people in the street who only know the basic rules =/ good.

I am saying that the quote itself is true, but it is misleading. Yes, your average 700 can beat everyone they know in the street, but that is not an accurate, nor good measure of skill.

Therefore, there is really no point to the quote. It’s true, but it doesn’t help measure your actual skill in any way, except for the fact that you’re better than people who don’t play the game. Big whooop.

I apologize, I’m not really being concise. I’m asking, what was the point of quoting that?

“Why do you feel it is not an accurate measure of skill”

because beating random people that don’t play chess is not hard, and not a good representation of one’s skill.

btw, this is the calmest conversation I’ve had with you thus far, well done 👏

A better representation of skill is to compare how good you are to other chess players. Which is why an elo of 700 is generally considered not very good

The best way (for me) to neutralize tilt is right after I lose a game. After losing a game, I take a short 30 second break to cool off or to get some water. It really helps me regain my rating rather than instantly pressing "play" after losing a won endgame. If I lose 2-3 games in a row I'll either take an hour break and hang out with my brothers, go outdoors, or eat something. 

-2:01am

-Sunday

-Renovations to be done on a house tomorrow (today, technically)

-50 elo down the gutter

i must ask myself, how did I get here?

My goal is simple: I hope to be alive to be able to play a game on 12/31/2022. 

Chess is like life. There are ups and downs. But the main thing is to have fun with each passing day so that you don't have to regret anything afterwards.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Melitti/the-malinoiss-gambit 

Love and chess 

My goal is to get to 2000+ rating at some point and start playing in OTB tournaments (I have my first one in autumn)