when to start playing against real people and not bots?
im used to the reality that in most games it can be frustrating for good players when people who are new and very bad want to play. i dont want to ruin anyones game by being bad. right now im learning so much about the basics that if i just waited a little longer, id be much better in a real game, so why not just learn a bit more first?
but on the other hand, because of the rating system, it is not such a worry that i am bad. my badness is just a gift to someone else who is also bad. good job chess for having that figured out.
i did play some games against bots first to make sure i knew the rules and how to click all the buttons. which is foreshadowing. but then i did a real game.
i thought i was actually doing pretty good, which according to the graph i was if u forget about time, but i forgot about time and lost.
in chess puzzles i can take 2 minutes to find a mate in 1. thats just where im at. so maybe playing 10 minute games is too fast for me, and thats why learning on a bot is not so bad. but getting a idea of what timed games are like is also not so bad, and real people are different from bots. and the most important thing is i didnt want to make playing against real people feel like a big barrier or something stressful. so i think i will try to do a bit of both, even if im doing more learning from puzzles and slow games with bots right now.
i did make one learning mistake that was kind of funny. can u figure out what i was thinking when i moved rook to its f8, remembering this is one of my first games?
ill put the answer at the end so its not a spoiler. but i did laugh at myself.
ill end with a philosophical note.
im sure uve got ur own thoughts about chess and smarts and whats worthwhile. some people have elo goals, or use elo ratings for motivation or celebration. it makes sense cuz it is possible to use it that way if u want, which, most things in life dont have that. so thats a cool thing about chess.
my chess goals are different and i have no elo goals, but im beginning to appreciate elo cuz its really useful so that bads like me can feel not bad about badding. we can all bad together.
im quite good at some brain stuff and i cant be the only one new at chess so i didnt expect to have chess dot com tell me im elo 100, which if i understand is the lowest rating possible. i thought id be a bit more of an average beginner. so i gotta savor this moment.
have u ever been elo 100? maybe u havent. and now u never will be. i have experienced something special cuz i played against real players and lost, instead of waiting cuz i was scared of a number judging me.
well now i got a rare 100 at chess that very few people can claim honestly. i tried my best and its only up from here.
and now i have another thing to add to my study list after my last post about remembering how the king works:
- remember the king can take pieces
- remember to move the king two spaces to castle, not the rook
