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Which is more aggravating & why?

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Wednesday, 18 June 2008, at 11:02 a.m.

In Response To: Which is more aggravating & why? (Stick)

because I am already too old. (to be a chess grandmaster)

Only in your own mind.

I thought it was clear here that I was talking about being a world class player and not "just" a GM. I could probably still make GM if I wanted to. If you think that a 24-year-old who doesn't yet have at master title will ever compete in a world championship match, then would you care to back that with a wager of a large sum of money? ;)

Mathematicians and chess players tend to have burned out by the time they're 35. One more thing to consider: I knew chess GMs who were struggling to pay their bills. You could make more money in 5 weeks of playing poker at that level than in 5 years of playing chess.

Your rational seems like chess is frustrating to you (or most) because you tried and in a sense failed. You studied day in & day out and realized you'd never reach the GM level.

I think this is a fairly gross mischaracterization of my post. I don't consider chess a failure; I was very successful at chess. And I think I would have been able to reach the GM level, but I wasn't willing to put in that kind of effort.

I don't know why I find chess losses so frustrating or victories so elating, but I do. I tried to provide the rationale here but I don't think I can fully capture the emotion.

Chess is one of the games where there is very little luck so the only person you have to blame for losing is yourself. I could sleep easily being beaten by someone I know is better than myself, it's losing to fucktards that aggravates me. Give me a loss to a Dane any day over losing to .

Stick

It's true that the only person you have to blame is yourself, but that doesn't mean you won't still lose to fucktards. And that makes a loss to a fucktard even more disappointing (the worst, though, is when you have a sure win over a better player and you let it slip away).

Knowing that I played my best game against a weak player and he rolled lucky and beat me doesn't bother me. Knowing that I came within an inch of winning a tournament and lost it because of a mistake that I "shouldn't" have made does.

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