all the time, up and down like the assyrian empire to quote eric idle
Winning or losing streaks.
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Apr 28, 2009
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Brianho - Maybe it's because you are getting older and your "faculties" are fading in and out?....By the way, Happy Birthday this month Old man!
I hear yah, recently I lost 3-4 games in a row, two against friends whose ***es I kick on a regular basis. I can't explain it, it was just a losing streak.
>>Renegade \o/
yes. It doesnt eem to hapen to often but when it does it seems like there are usualy 2 or 3 days where i am just consistenly makin bad moves. I almost always noyicotice as soon as i hit submit move. My way of explaining my stupidity is becuase i am usually on IM with my girl and also playin a couple tables of poker at the same time. But either way it is rther frustrating. And i am gonna appologize now because i cant seee any of the letters i am typing so im sure there are several mistakes. . But the bad move streaks usually seem to go away and everything is bcak to normal. In poker, some people often go on what is called "tilt'. After 1 or even a few bad beats where some1 sucks out on u wafter u were a huge advantage you can go on tilt and then u start playing bad. Sometimess I think this happens to me in chess. After i make a few bad moves, it angers me and that causes me to continue to play bad.
I got that same feeling sometimes (brianho) =]
Yea it happens like life one day your up ;
one day you down ;
mind you i live in amsterdam; so there can be a lot of highs ; so i miss or over look
that move or moves;
but its a game ; that we play over and over again;
so is it love/;;;?
Oh yes. For me it seems like a constant losing streak. Hahaha
My best winnning streak I think was 15 and my worst losing streak I think was 5. I often get about 10 wins in a row and then lose 2 or 3 games after.
Hitting a winning streak, which for me is never very many games, puts me on a chess high, which, thank goodness, doesn't last long, and I inevitably fall from hubris into humility -- where I get to studying chess hard again and get on with playing better chess . . . only to repeat the cycle again. But I find hope in knowing that I am ending up, for me, on a higher plateau each time.
Last week I was on a winning streak in Live chess =]
I win therefore I streak ?
If I'm feeling streaky, I change my boxers.
Yes! Some days the opposition seems easier than others, I find there is not much difference in players with a rating within a hundred, it's more a lack of mistakes and blunders than it is about the great moves and clever lines that sets them apart.
I tend to keep playing when I am tired and losing, more out of an irritated compulsion than anything else. In this mode I have thrown away so many games I was winning because of stupid, ill-considered blunders, quite often the realization happening the very instant the key is pressed. I was under how many of us don't stop when we should?
I find it somewhat helpful not to look at my opponents rating until after the game, it can cause me to cramp my style and be timid if their rating is significantly better, or be flippant if it is significantly lower. Better to gauge their ability by the moves they make, some of these players have obviously had a losing streak themselves and appear to play much better than their rating suggests!
Does anyone else feel streaky when they play chess? I feel like there are times when I can see the board really well and I will win a few consecutive games against decent players and then there are other times when I feel like an idiot and I get beat 3 or 4 games in a row.