People should have the intelligence to understand their place and the hardheadedness to endure some Schadenfreude when they've stepped out of it. In this case, the OP deserves to be laughed at a little. When I was as bad as the OP, I knew I was awful and worked to get better. Now I have a better rating than 90% of people on this site but I still know I'm bad because I understand my place. I wouldn't show off a game on the forums unless I had thoroughly analyzed it with chess software and confirmed that the game was played at a much higher skill level than my rating.
There's no point in defending him here, in my opinion.
People should have the intelligence to understand their place and the hardheadedness to endure some Schadenfreude when they've stepped out of it. In this case, the OP deserves to be laughed at a little. When I was as bad as the OP, I knew I was awful and worked to get better. Now I have a better rating than 90% of people on this site but I still know I'm bad because I understand my place. I wouldn't show off a game on the forums unless I had thoroughly analyzed it with chess software and confirmed that the game was played at a much higher skill level than my rating.
There's no point in defending him here, in my opinion.