*bump*
Just One more move!
Sort:
*bump* Hello, anybody there? It'll be interesting to see anyone else's games where one move has changed the outcome...
Feb 3, 2009
0
#5
cool i really am learning how to play chess its going slow right now but i have been improving thanks for the insights.
No problem. Keep it up!
lol Tell me about it! 
So no one has any games where one move has changed the outcome?
if your ashamed you lost...dont be every move u make is something you yourself chooses it'll only make you better whether its bad nor good just dont cry about loseing in a freindly game wont change your real life chess rating like my old coach in high school he used to beat me all the time and i got PoED at myself for makeing such stupid moves but now im way better as a matter a fact he cant beat me its like...he mind as well give up before we even start lol he makes jokes about me beating him hes like ready to beat me in a game of chess? of course i say yes i mean comon what else is there to do in life then make your self or others improve on there chess skillz.. :)
mwb21089 wrote:
if your ashamed you lost...dont be every move u make is something you yourself chooses it'll only make you better whether its bad nor good just dont cry about loseing in a freindly game wont change your real life chess rating like my old coach in high school he used to beat me all the time and i got PoED at myself for makeing such stupid moves but now im way better as a matter a fact he cant beat me its like...he mind as well give up before we even start lol he makes jokes about me beating him hes like ready to beat me in a game of chess? of course i say yes i mean comon what else is there to do in life then make your self or others improve on there chess skillz.. :)
I'm not "ashamed" that I lost. I was annoyed for a few minutes afterwards and then forgot about it. 
In any case, shouldn't the fact that I resigned in a roughly even position tell you that I don't care particularly about winning or losing but more about moving to the best of my ability, which I neglected to do in this case!
Was your High School coach a Fide Master? lol I fully expect Valeri to be in the world's top 100 players some day, so unfortunately the time when I can regularly beat him is not going to come. 
Very often in chess the margins between maintaining a clear advantage, and handing it instantly over to one's opponent can be very fine. Especially of course when the opponent is a very strong player.
In the following game you will see how true the saying "One bad move can cancel out 40 good ones" really is, and how highly flawed my technique was at the crucial point in the game. It was a 14 day game on chess.com against my coach who is a FIDE Master.
It's also true what they say, that most amateurs can play 95% of their moves like a Master, but it's the other 5% that truely seperate the boys from the men.