I probably should not have been watching a YouTube video about 187 year old turtle who ate a red leaf on the 1st of April 2018 at 3:43 am and got sick with a extraterrestrial disease.
Classic: "You only won because I let you". Sure buddy, you were down 10 points of material before move 12, but go on.
You're a program. I'm going to report you.
I got distracted. I should have won.
I'm tired
If I hadn't... I would have won.
My favorite,
man starts to chat. I respond. He chats more...then loses and says:
I can't chat and play.
I'm tired
If I hadn't... I would have won.
My favorite,
man starts to chat. I respond. He chats more...then loses and says:
I can't chat and play.
Logic dictates antonyms and synonyms can be the foundation to finding excuses.
Search the Chess Glossary or Chess Principles for negative or positive excuses.
1. Anti-positional pawn ruse, ... not good.
2. Artificial castling, ... too slow.
3. Attack, ... premature & out of sequence.
4. Shiny pieces (Attraction / Distraction), ... could not focus on the chessboard.
5. Automaton, ... the game was a hoax.
6. Bind, ... the advanced pawn squeeze forced the player to use assistance.
7. Develop, ... was lagging behind.
8. Control, ... lol was poor.
9. Blind pigs, ... just could not find the checkmate.
10. Blitzkrieg, .... rapidly underestimated the opponent.
11. Increment time, ... bonus support was insufficient and ran out of time.
12. Lucena position, ... the bridge failed.
13. Capture, ... castling into it was a cheapo mistake.
14. Distraction, ... it was a noisy game. The pieces spoke too much.
15. J'adoube, ... was deaf, so had to play the piece.
16. key square, ... could not find the outpost.
Principles provide guidelines for chess play, but can become an excuse-making syndrome:
The chess principle did not work. Tried too hard to maintain the pair of bishops.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-life/201508/curing-excuse-making-syndrome
Search the Chess Glossary or Chess Principles for negative or positive excuses.
1. Anti-positional pawn ruse, ... not good.
2. Artificial castling, ... too slow.
3. Attack, ... premature & out of sequence.
4. Shiny pieces (Attraction / Distraction), ... could not focus on the chessboard.
5. Automaton, ... the game was a hoax.
6. Bind, ... the advanced pawn squeeze forced the player to use assistance.
7. Develop, ... was lagging behind.
8. Control, ... lol was poor.
9. Blind pigs, ... just could not find the checkmate.
10. Blitzkrieg, .... rapidly underestimated the opponent.
11. Increment time, ... bonus support was insufficient and ran out of time.
12. Lucena position, ... the bridge failed.
13. Capture, ... castling into it was a cheapo mistake.
14. Distraction, ... it was a noisy game. The pieces spoke too much.
15. J'adoube, ... was deaf, so had to play the piece.
16. key square, ... could not find the outpost.
Principles provide guidelines for chess play, but can become an excuse-making syndrome:
The chess principle did not work. Tried too hard to maintain the pair of bishops.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-life/201508/curing-excuse-making-syndrome
I play 10 minute games and dont care too much about the rating points. So I've quit to take a dump (and surely will again) and various reasons of similar merit.
Unexpected surprises should not be used as an excuse for not being prepared or vigilant.
Thought it wouldn't happen, but it did. Being proactive would have helped. Still sounds like an excuse.
An excuse from someone else, never makes me feel better.
Thought it wouldn't happen, but it did. Being proactive would have helped. Still sounds like an excuse.
An excuse from someone else, never makes me feel better.
@Toscani said in #17:
> Unexpected surprises should not be used as an excuse for not being prepared or vigilant.
> Thought it wouldn't happen, but it did. Being proactive would have helped. Still sounds like an excuse.
> An excuse from someone else, never makes me feel better.
People have different philosophies. I play mostly 960, and in my rating band there aren't that many frequent players, so I "know" them. Many will keep up rigid attention after a big setback all the way to the bitter end. They are very dangerous to me, because sometimes I get a little bored sometimes when winning should be a simple matter. Others are more like me. I'll gladly resign if I drop a piece in a simple position without compensation. So no, I dont worry too much about it if dinner is ready earlier than expected. Each to their own mate.
> Unexpected surprises should not be used as an excuse for not being prepared or vigilant.
> Thought it wouldn't happen, but it did. Being proactive would have helped. Still sounds like an excuse.
> An excuse from someone else, never makes me feel better.
People have different philosophies. I play mostly 960, and in my rating band there aren't that many frequent players, so I "know" them. Many will keep up rigid attention after a big setback all the way to the bitter end. They are very dangerous to me, because sometimes I get a little bored sometimes when winning should be a simple matter. Others are more like me. I'll gladly resign if I drop a piece in a simple position without compensation. So no, I dont worry too much about it if dinner is ready earlier than expected. Each to their own mate.
@QueenRosieMary said in #1:
> I'll start by stating the obvious. I'm quite low-rated, and I lose a lot of games because I am still a beginner. But sometimes I cause an upset and beat someone higher-rated than me. Quite often, rather than just taking it on the chin and congratulating me, they will offer me some reason/excuse as to why this happened, in an attempt to salvage some dignity and pride. Let's be honest, for SOME guys, it is probably worse that they got beaten by a girl...
>
> Here we go:
>
> "I probably shouldn't have been playing bridge at the same time" well, now you know ;)
> "I was giving the cat medicine" ok, I'll admit this would tilt anyone, cats and medicine is a bad combo
> "I just forgot to bring my brain to the game today" yes, you did...clearly
> "I'm not well today" get well soon xxx
> "I'm very tired" yeah, me too buddy, always...
> "I'm a bit drunk" have another one, want a rematch? xD
> "my kids were getting in my face" *relatable*
> "my internet is bad today" unlucky
> "I had to go and be sick mid-game" Ooof TMI
> "You must be a sandbagger (!!!)" (thought that was a bit rude!)
> "I just move too quickly, maximum 5 seconds per move, if I had spent more time I would have beaten you" (in 2-day correspondence) no words here...you had 2 days...
> "You must be underrated" I have faith in the Lichess rating algorithms
>
> And I have to say, I believed most of them...
>
> please add yours below...
It has never happened to me, probably because my username is less intriguing. The only chat conversation that I remember happened, was when I gave a takeback when they asked on chat for me to re-enable it when they obviously mouse slipped, and then later in the game they played a bad move and asked for another takeback smh. I try to believe that is not universal human nature but on some days it's not easy.
> I'll start by stating the obvious. I'm quite low-rated, and I lose a lot of games because I am still a beginner. But sometimes I cause an upset and beat someone higher-rated than me. Quite often, rather than just taking it on the chin and congratulating me, they will offer me some reason/excuse as to why this happened, in an attempt to salvage some dignity and pride. Let's be honest, for SOME guys, it is probably worse that they got beaten by a girl...
>
> Here we go:
>
> "I probably shouldn't have been playing bridge at the same time" well, now you know ;)
> "I was giving the cat medicine" ok, I'll admit this would tilt anyone, cats and medicine is a bad combo
> "I just forgot to bring my brain to the game today" yes, you did...clearly
> "I'm not well today" get well soon xxx
> "I'm very tired" yeah, me too buddy, always...
> "I'm a bit drunk" have another one, want a rematch? xD
> "my kids were getting in my face" *relatable*
> "my internet is bad today" unlucky
> "I had to go and be sick mid-game" Ooof TMI
> "You must be a sandbagger (!!!)" (thought that was a bit rude!)
> "I just move too quickly, maximum 5 seconds per move, if I had spent more time I would have beaten you" (in 2-day correspondence) no words here...you had 2 days...
> "You must be underrated" I have faith in the Lichess rating algorithms
>
> And I have to say, I believed most of them...
>
> please add yours below...
It has never happened to me, probably because my username is less intriguing. The only chat conversation that I remember happened, was when I gave a takeback when they asked on chat for me to re-enable it when they obviously mouse slipped, and then later in the game they played a bad move and asked for another takeback smh. I try to believe that is not universal human nature but on some days it's not easy.
@chessfan124 said in #19:
> It has never happened to me, probably because my username is less intriguing.
I never realised my username was intriguing...maybe they got distracted by that and it made them lose? ;-)
> It has never happened to me, probably because my username is less intriguing.
I never realised my username was intriguing...maybe they got distracted by that and it made them lose? ;-)
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