Looking a Place for a Guy Like me

[Fernando]

Once I was master candidate. Once I played giving mate to some computers in combs 16 ply long. Once I was capable of being 6 hours in a row playing my best computer and immersed in deep calculations.
All that is gone.
My playing style is now shallow, without patience, calculating just enough to avoid losing a piece in a three ply comb, distracted, multitasking, drinking and yawning. So I lose almost every game I play.
My place is not here anymore.
We have here almost GM that wins with sacrifices against the most powerful computers. We have here smart guys that knows everything.
I need another place. A dumb one.
I wonder if in a clinic for retarded old men could be the site to go.
Perhaps a home for war veterans of WWII that lost half his brains.
Do you know of something like that?

Disabled regards
Fern

[SirDave]

Well, let's see: One finds it a challenge to win games against boards. One isn't a Master or Grandmaster. One feels dumb about a lot of chess subjects and isn't a particularly smart guy that knows everything.

Fernando, have you ever considered that there are a lot of us like that here?

[Steve B]

Well you count me in that catagory as well
last game i have actually won was against my 8 yr old Nephew and thats because i didnt teach him all of the rules

perhaps we can get Harvey to set up a new Forum here
lets call it the...

Guys Like Me Forum Regards
Steve

[Larry]

Chess fatigue strikes pretty much all chess players over time. It's
probably a real problem for those professionals that rely on winning
games to put food on the table. Electronic chess opponents are readily
available, either against a home computer, or against a human opponent
over the internet, and we tend to start playing without putting our heart
into it. Just set up the pieces...next game...next game... phone rings,
no problem, just speak on the phone and move pieces at the same time.
Happens to all of us.
After playing over the board chess only at school, and then only after
final exams at the end of the year, I did'nt play the game again until I
was reintroduced to it in the early 1980's by a good friend who became
a chess addict. I took it up again when I became fascinated with chess
computers. Here I am 30 years later, same patzer, just older. The friend
I mentioned has long forgotten chess, but I play on.
Worldwide there are probably millions of us in the same situation.
Losing to Fidelity CC7 level regards...
Larry

[Fernando]

Chess fatigue strikes pretty much all chess players over time. It's
probably a real problem for those professionals that rely on winning
games to put food on the table. Electronic chess opponents are readily
available, either against a home computer, or against a human opponent
over the internet, and we tend to start playing without putting our heart
into it. Just set up the pieces...next game...next game... phone rings,
no problem, just speak on the phone and move pieces at the same time.
Happens to all of us.
After playing over the board chess only at school, and then only after
final exams at the end of the year, I did'nt play the game again until I
was reintroduced to it in the early 1980's by a good friend who became
a chess addict. I took it up again when I became fascinated with chess
computers. Here I am 30 years later, same patzer, just older. The friend
I mentioned has long forgotten chess, but I play on.
Worldwide there are probably millions of us in the same situation.
Losing to Fidelity CC7 level regards...
Larry

What a great consolation to find people as me here....Steven Blincoe say we must create a new forum, "people Like us" he said could be the name. Lets me try another name: Idiot League of Chess Players....
Perhaps some other retarded like us could propose other names...
It would be fun to comment games where one of us could say "what??? Where was hidden that bastardy rook??" Or "¿So the knight could jump backward?"

Things like that regards
Fern

[Larry]

"¿So the knight could jump backward?"

The knight??... oh yeah, the one with the horse's head.
L

[Fernando]

"¿So the knight could jump backward?"

The knight??... oh yeah, the one with the horse's head.
L

Are you sure?

Fern

[ricard60]

We can créate a new fórum of dummy chess players but i can tell you something; even from the dummy level you can improve if you practice everyday , even if the world chess champion does not practice he goes backward.

La practica hace al maestro regards
Ricardo

[Fernando]

We can créate a new fórum of dummy chess players but i can tell you something; even from the dummy level you can improve if you practice everyday , even if the world chess champion does not practice he goes backward.

La practica hace al maestro regards
Ricardo

In fact I am not that bad. just mediocre and prone to mistakes as any normal guy. In chess there is something horrible: no matter how many good moves you played, just one bad get you lost.
In life we can compensate, not in chess regards
fern

[Bryan Whitby]

Fern

Here's a little tip to stop you forgetting your login passwords now we are fast approaching the twilight of our lives.

Set all your passwords to "incorrect" then whenever you have to type a password request, just type in anything and the computer will always tell you your password,

PASSWORD: INCORRECT

See it's so easy

Oh to be young again regards
Bryan

[Fernando]

Fern

Here's a little tip to stop you forgetting your login passwords now we are fast approaching the twilight of our lives.

Set all your passwords to "incorrect" then whenever you have to type a password request, just type in anything and the computer will always tell you your password,

PASSWORD: INCORRECT

See it's so easy

Oh to be young again regards
Bryan

Very good trick indeed!!!!
But I am not yet in that stage of life.
Not yet
Not.

So, what we were talking about?

Fern