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my talent is medioca but my willingness to learn is good and commitment to getting better especially earlier in my chess and trying to
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win is strong....
littleman wrote: my talent is medioca but my willingness to learn is good and commitment to getting better especially earlier in my chess and trying to win is strong....
yet now you seam to play mosty weaker players. all be it that there is a lot of room for being weeker.
I know that I'm a horrible player, so I try to study fairly often. I hardly ever do, but I try. ;) I play mostly stronger players, at least lately. (At least, stronger compared to me, not just strong from a general point of view - they'd probably destroy me!)
I don't have any spectacular natural talent. I'm fairly happy with my play now, but I'm aware that there is enormous room for improvement. That's part of the fun... if I had no room to improve anymore, why bother to play?
Jul 2, 2008
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yoshtodd wrote: I don't have any spectacular natural talent. I'm fairly happy with my play now, but I'm aware that there is enormous room for improvement. That's part of the fun... if I had no room to improve anymore, why bother to play?
So you can win lots of money?
Mech_Machanic wrote: littleman wrote: my talent is medioca but my willingness to learn is good and commitment to getting better especially earlier in my chess and trying to win is strong....
yet now you seam to play mosty weaker players. all be it that there is a lot of room for being weeker.
I do so to help them mostly. I dont go looking for them if thats what your implying. And i can and have beaten stronger lever players. I just have a weakness for helping others out too and not wanting to deny someone a game just because they are a couple of hundred points under me is that so bad?
I often astound fellow chess players with my statement, "No-one, not you, I or even Kasparov can win a game of chess.............................................unless the opponent makes a mistake!"
This is the paradox and cruel attraction of chess as it is primarily a contest against yourself, a contest in which one mistake can be fatal.
For some strange reason, I find that contest absolutely enthralling. It is unlike any other game, everything is there in front of you, nothing is hidden or unknown, you just have to use your knowledge to correctly work out what to play. Sounds easy doesn't it 
We all know better than to say that 
So after years of painful lessons and humbling losses, I am satisfied that I have made progress in my knowledge and skill at the game but know that I am still a long way short of where I desired to be. 
I too leave my seeks open to be accepted by anyone and am more than happy to play someone who is challenging themselves to do better. That is how I got better and I appreciated every tip and lesson a better player was willing to give me.
objective chess is a finite 2-person game of complete information. Hence above post is equivalent to saying that chess has been mathematically proven to be a draw. Not true.
Yes but Norma, if both sides play perfectly the result expected would no doubt be a draw, no?
it hasnt been proven. no one knows. You are asking me something like 'but norma, the goldbach conjecture has to be true, no?'
littleman wrote: Mech_Machanic wrote: littleman wrote: my talent is medioca but my willingness to learn is good and commitment to getting better especially earlier in my chess and trying to win is strong....
yet now you seam to play mosty weaker players. all be it that there is a lot of room for being weeker.
I do so to help them mostly. I dont go looking for them if thats what your implying. And i can and have beaten stronger lever players. I just have a weakness for helping others out too and not wanting to deny someone a game just because they are a couple of hundred points under me is that so bad?
then care to play me? 
Ellbert wrote: I feel good about my talent at Chess, how do you feel Mech Machanic about your talent at Chess?
I feal like i am verry good. but I play better when i admit that i stink.
diskamyl wrote: normajeanyates wrote:
it hasnt been proven. no one knows.
that's not correct. it hasn't been proven, but everyone knows.
Nonsense. If it hasn't been proven, then nobody knows. Period.
Most people believe it - but somebody later on could prove them all wrong.
Jul 3, 2008
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Lets see... I'm a 1950 player (roughly) ... there are 2850 players. I am 901 points away from being happy with my playing level.
Of course, after 2000 I may give up my run and just float around there for a while.. the 2 in front of the zero's is always nice :)
ih8sens wrote:
Lets see... I'm a 1950 player (roughly) ... there are 2850 players. I am 901 points away from being happy with my playing level.
Of course, after 2000 I may give up my run and just float around there for a while.. the 2 in front of the zero's is always nice :)
how exactly do you plain on getting exatly 50 points.
How do you feal about your talent at chess.