This kind of stuff happens occasionally to all players. There isn't anyone that as played chess for any significant period of time that hasn't had many gut wrenching defeats. Defeats where they have a victory all but won and blunder it away and end up losing. Those defeats will keep happening for the rest of your chess playing days even if you get better and no matter how hard you try to avoid them.
One other important thing to remember is that if you're honest with yourself you can remember benefitting just as many times from your opponents blowing games where they had you beat before blundering and you ended up winning. It pretty much evens out in the long run with chess players blundering games back and forth to each other.
hello people, let me start off by saying that I have been playing chess for fifty years. I understand most everything about the game all concepts , strategy. I have started playing most recently on chess.com My rating has been hanging in the low 1200's
I win a game, lose a game and all is well. I learn were I can. Never take a lose to the heart. But last night I played a game that has really stuck in my heart all day. It's crazy but I think I can know how a Grandmaster feels when he blows a game that he has won ( championship).
I started game with e4 wiggled my way through the sicilian and had control of the whole game from the start. I finally with the help of pins, forks and brilliant (???) Statagy have him in "mate in one". I had him he was mine by playing solid chess. But even though I had him at that lovely word Checkmate, in one. Next move "MATE" I completely blundered the next four moves and gave my queen away on the fifth move!!!!!! I was shocked when the game was analized. Blundered four straight moves. The mate that I directed was lost. I felt sick to this moment. I have never felt this way losing a game and I have lost many. What I cannot get over is the four consecutive blunders then giving away my queen. I guess I am just looking for some introspect from my fellow chess nuts. People who maybe have gone through such a mood altering experience. Any words will be helpful.
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