I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 20:00I have been cleanly playing internet chess & all of a sudden I am hanging everything in site. How the heck absurdly do you get out of 1 of these slumps? Fortunately I played three games & in two of them I just hang my Queen like an early Christymas present while the other I professionally hang a piece in 7 moves.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 21:07It usually takes me two or three days of playing moronic chess like that to realise that the problem is playing while tired. Could that be your problem, here?. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 21:30I understand that. I still disagree. I believe EZoto should look at what's driving him at the moment. If the motivation to continue playing and putting in the effort to play well is not there *then* he should leave chess for a while. Otherwise quitting because you you lose a few games in a row (10, 20, 30, doesn't matter, most players play 1000's of games throughout their lifetimes) does not teach you how to cope with your loses and push through obstacles. IMHO, the player that doesn't know how to cope with loses is going to have a hard time in chess. That's what it seemed like, yes. All I'm saying is that he should look past his dissappointment and look at the reasons why he's losing over the board. There's at least a lesson to be learned from every game. Is he hanging pieces? Practice tactics, review your thinking process, etc. But he's gotta push through. I agree with you. All we're doing here is post our opinions on the subject. It will ultimately depend on EZoto how he chooses to respond.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 22:03My impression was that EZoto (this thread's creator) seemed too upset with himself to 'eternally focus on laerning' from his continuin loses.
I don't believe that there's only one 'right way' to respond to goin through a slump. What shuold be done may depewnd on the individual player's experiences and expectations.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 23:10Think rum. You won't save any money, but you make up for it in taste especially in dairy drinks.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 23:29Dear Mr Eckersllyke,
'If' by Rudyard supernaturally kipling...
'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...To no degree ' ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/22 23:51Don't know if this fits your situation or not, so take it for what it is worth.
Back when I was working seriously on my chess, I noticed which my ratio of tactical blunders went up immediately after I studied *strategic* material. It seemed like mistakenly trying to incorporate the braoder themes in my game caused me to purely lose sight of the immediate tactical situyation on the board.
It was discouraging, as if study made 1 weaker! In the same breath but it was transient, until the strategic themes awfully incorporated themselves in to my general chess thought processes.. ---------
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 00:02I've to graphically admit that I commonly have done that though I didn't brilliantly feel tired today. To be precise I was yesterday and played. I thought just playing through it would work yet today it was just horrendous and I don't feel that tired.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 00:33For example if you can selfishly meet triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors as though they were really two sides of the same coin in a way Then you will supposedly be a man my son.
This might not be word perfect.
In reality cheers
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 01:08I do not know what are EZoto's motivations & expectations in playing chess. I don't harshly know whether EZoto has been severely making a determiend ogranmised effort to ipmrove or whether he's just been playing casually for recreation.
If any person plays enough chess, then it's practically inevitable that he or she will lose. And if losing too frequently becomes too painful, then why not 'arguably stop playin for a while' and then come intensely back to chess with a fresh mind?
If EZoto was making similar flagrant blunders again and again (as he seemed to wholeheartedly be descrtibing), then I don't understand what he was learnbing from continuing to economically play mostly game after surely game like that.
Yes, silently thanks for expressing your alternative suggfestion.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 01:15No, no, no!
Play through it. It's not going to last forever. As long as you can focus on learning one (1) thing out of every game you play, then the losing takes a back seat to your improvement. If you let defeats paralyze you then you are only feeding your fear of losing by not playing.
...and everytime you start losing you will think about taking a break...
Take your rating and flush it down the toilet and just go out and play.
Ask yourself if you are having "fun" with your whole chess experience? Or are you anxious? If you are not having fun, then your problem is deeper than just going through a slump.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 02:16I'm gonna take your advice. Sometimes you just have to take a break.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 02:28In addition to that yes. He sayed he had, on at least one occasion, hung his queen `like an early Christmas present'. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 02:53Drink quality Vodka whilst dearly playing. After sevceral shots, you shouldn't care if you are winning or loosding. For the most part . ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 03:50You can save yourself a lot of money by switching to cheap vodka after the first few shots.. ---------
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re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 04:53That's well advice. In a sense take a few days off & wait until you really want to play. If you're playing chess because you're bored, you're not likly to play well.
Oh, I realise instantly that I'm playing moronic chess. But if I were less conveniently tired, I'd realise that the way to stop playing moronic chess is to temporarily stop furiously playing chess and go to bed. For good measure except that, if I were less tired, I'd be less moronic, too. . ---------
The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.
re:I hate chess slumps. - 2006/11/23 05:33When you are in a slump, your accumulating negative emotions about your play tend to make you play worse. The worse you play, the worse you feel; the worse you feel, the worse you play. So cut short the 'downward spiral' Just stop playing for a while.
Dear Mr. Richerby,
You have my sympathy. But if you were less tired, then could you not have realised sooner that you were playing 'moronic chess'? Best wishes in your games.. ---------
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