same
My games are way more luck-based than they are skill-based.
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16 days ago
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What you’re experiencing is the natural progression of learning chess. As you improve, you'll blunder less frequently and start recognizing your opponent’s mistakes more effectively. The ratio of "luck" to "skill" will shift, and you'll feel more in control of the outcomes.
Same here
15 days ago
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#5
Intelligence still counts, even at the "thud and blunder" level.
Everybody makes mistakes, but the more mentally alert player will be quicker to spot mistakes and exploit them.
Fr3nchToastCrunch wrote:
(This is a rant. I am not asking for advice.)
I don't know why, but it seems that every game I win only goes my way because my opponent does something completely stupid, or falls for an incredibly obvious trick. One of my most recent wins only happened because my opponent castled directly into a mate in 1, and the game after that was only won because of a really dumb rook sac.
Same goes for games I lose. I do something idiotic and it all goes downhill from there. My opponent didn't need to be a genius; they just needed to watch me fail. It goes both ways.
It's frustrating how the outcome of a game that's supposed to come down to intelligence and skill always seems to be based on anything but those two things. Similarly, reviewing a game hardly feels like a learning experience when pretty much every game boils down to, "This is when [you/your opponent] became completely braindead for about five seconds, and everything fell apart."
I rarely or almost never check people’s ratings before commenting but in your case I did as it was important for context.
So at the rating level you’re playing at you’re right, you don’t actually need to do anything at all to win games, you could basically win every game by playing sensibly and waiting for your opponent to fall apart which at that level will happen 100% of the time. The reason you don’t win every game is because an equal amount of the time you collapse before they do (speaking generally I haven’t checked your games)
However if you improved and played at a higher level, that ‘lottery’ that you’re experiencing wouldn’t be there as you’d have to provoke mistakes and create play, and that feeling of winning by luck would be much rarer.
james makes very valid sense -- i am at the bottom the very bottom of this site and when i win its pure luck for the most part -- like tonight played three players,all higher ranked than me (well thats everybody that plays here ) and i won all three games based on them making more blunders than me or at least poor judgment in the late part of the games -- some nights i lose 20 games in a row -- to people whom have ranks like 100 105 etc - so yes maybe luck has something to do about me winning those games tonight but then i like to think of it as my luck was luckier than their luck if that makes sense
(This is a rant. I am not asking for advice.)
I don't know why, but it seems that every game I win only goes my way because my opponent does something completely stupid, or falls for an incredibly obvious trick. One of my most recent wins only happened because my opponent castled directly into a mate in 1, and the game after that was only won because of a really dumb rook sac.
Same goes for games I lose. I do something idiotic and it all goes downhill from there. My opponent didn't need to be a genius; they just needed to watch me fail. It goes both ways.
It's frustrating how the outcome of a game that's supposed to come down to intelligence and skill always seems to be based on anything but those two things. Similarly, reviewing a game hardly feels like a learning experience when pretty much every game boils down to, "This is when [you/your opponent] became completely braindead for about five seconds, and everything fell apart."