Why losing at chess is soooo hard and painful :|

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Beach_lad

In my life i have played many games and E sports but i have noticed that losing at chess is always a lot more painful,energy consuming,hard and so much depressing is there any scientific reason for this.I have played many outdoors and indoors games like cricket,basketball,soccer,table tennis and many E sports but they were never so intense or energy consuming losing at chess is so painful why is it so :( what are your thoughts feel free to share :)

Endless-love-inactive

I don't think so
Failure in wrestling is much more painful
I have always tried to learn from my failures

Beach_lad

Good point @Endless-love

So I guess i need to change my attitude XD

Ashvath23
Thalapathy_64 wrote:

In my life i have played many games and E sports but i have noticed that losing at chess is always a lot more painful,energy consuming,hard and so much depressing is there any scientific reason for this.I have played many outdoors and indoors games like cricket,basketball,soccer,table tennis and many E sports but they were never so intense or energy consuming losing at chess is so painful why is it so :( what are your thoughts feel free to share :)

Bro I agree with . Because I too face this painful moments .

davidkimchi

It depends on how passionate you are and how much it means to you to win. 

The more passionate you are the more likely the loss will be painful.

Thats why you see famous athletes get so emotional and cry when they lose at the top of their sports, e.g. Anthony Joshua recently lost and went on an emotional rant and even cried. 

tygxc

@1
"cricket, basketball, soccer" ++ You can blame teammates for the loss

"table tennis" ++ It hurts the ego less to admit the opponent is more dexterous or faster than to admit the opponent is smarter.

Nicoquelicots
tygxc a écrit :

@1
"cricket, basketball, soccer" ++ You can blame teammates for the loss

"table tennis" ++ It hurts the ego less to admit the opponent is more dexterous or faster than to admit the opponent is smarter.

Failure is not just about intelligence. They are also for many based on practice, training like any sport or art. And above all, memory is hyper important:
So when I lose, I just think that the opposing player was stronger at that particular moment and maybe he was more fortunate than I was. After a thousand games, I don’t make it a disease anymore. And when I win, I often think to myself that I had a little more luck in the way of putting the shots than mpon opponent. Often there is also the speed that comes into play, which plays tricks for me because jplus the hours advanced, the less I am fast.

tygxc

@7
++ Yes, that makes sense. However chess can cause pain.
"I like the moment when I break a man's ego" - Fischer

Nicoquelicots

Yes, Ficher had a huge ego:
You have to learn to dominate your ego and have a little humility. Thus, you suffer much less.
And then you have to learn to turn the pages. It’s like life. Well, at almost 65, we may have more wisdom and we relativize a lot more.

Derek-C-Goodwin

I am in a slump, ratings plunging, I know it will pass, but there is a word to describe this period of time "uggghhhhh".

Nicoquelicots

Do not prevent that I played a lot at the beginning against the computer and since a year I play against players from all over the world, I can no longer do without it.
I think it’s great, at some point where you want to play, to be able to play against a human being from anywhere on this planet. The attraction of playing against a human is irreplaceable compared to the computer. The dimmension is totally different. And above all, there are exchanges. You can make a lot of friends and this allows you to "travel" and imagine, even to wake up. Against the computer, there is none of that.

Nicoquelicots
Derek-C-Goodwin a écrit :

I am in a slump, ratings plunging, I know it will pass, but there is a word to describe this period of time "uggghhhhh".

Let it pass. Think of positive things and all this will go back to positive and after your cry will be "wouah..."

Kotshmot

My guess is that your chess rating is more sensitive to your ego than other games youve played. 

Nicoquelicots
Kotshmot a écrit :

My guess is that your chess rating is more sensitive to your ego than other games youve played. 

 Who are you talking to?

Woollensock2
Losing is part of your learning curve ! ……just saying ! 🤷‍♂️
iresignindisgust
Thalapathy_64 wrote:

In my life i have played many games and E sports but i have noticed that losing at chess is always a lot more painful,energy consuming,hard and so much depressing is there any scientific reason for this.I have played many outdoors and indoors games like cricket,basketball,soccer,table tennis and many E sports but they were never so intense or energy consuming losing at chess is so painful why is it so :( what are your thoughts feel free to share :)

Agreed - sometimes after a loss I'm so disgusted with myself it can affect the rest of my day and that night's sleep. Losses which seem inexplicable, ones where your opponent appeared to play like a GM despite being rated 1300. Others where, using the critical moments review function on here (gold and diamond member only?) I find out I made 4 raging blunders, little beknownst to me during the actual game. But other losses seem not to be so devastating. Chess is a game of temperament as much as anything else and I generally (this is a work in progress) try to think of losses as 'losing practice', processing the thoughts and emotions. 

Vipersix5
At the end of day, it’s just a game
THE_SYRIAN_FALCON

It really hurts...I feel like the stab in my heart...it's a feeling that doesn't leave me all my day

Alchessblitz

I find that losing to warcraft 3 is more painful, another one will be the same with starcraft 2. There are games where when we take them too seriously, the defeats can give undesirable consequences and disproportionate to what it should be. 

 

Otherwise I think it depends on the cadence you play. If you play a long game cadence, it means that you will lose a day. If you don't win you can feel bad because it's violent to have wasted a day to spend a lot of energy to finally not win.

 

Nicoquelicots
the_Syrian_falcon_3 a écrit :

It really hurts...I feel like the stab in my heart...it's a feeling that doesn't leave me all my day

If it’s that painful, you have to change your passion and move on!