It’s not about age, eventually magnus will be beaten by a 5 year old.
Just play a few games online to get your rating settled in and you will quickly start playing against people your skill level. You will likely get stomped a lot early on, but that stops after just a few games with massive elo drops.
I appreciate the tips, but I’ve long resigned myself to the fact that, like DnD and Warhammer, chess is one of the classic nerd things that I just can’t do.
My problem is that there is very limited amount of such people :/ People either don’t or can’t play chess or are really into it.
And of course there is always this one guy/gal who’s like “Let’s play, you’ll probably beat me because I’m really rookie el oh el. Yeah I’m in local chess club but there are much better players than me. It’s true that this one time I finished second in that chess championship but …”
There has to be some online chess simulators that match opponents based on skill-level. Playing IRL might be tougher to find, but if you’re in school I would look for chess clubs there.
Just play against people at the same skill level
But they don’t let me near the ten-year-olds any more
The last time I played chess it was against a ten year old and I got my ass whooped.
Is there a chess league for babies I could join?
Still too high level for my chess abilities. Is there an amoeba league?
I just wanna put on a pair of boots and stomp around in a room full of helpless babies, is that too much to ask?
You just want to waste food and I’m disappointed in you.
It’s not about age, eventually magnus will be beaten by a 5 year old.
Just play a few games online to get your rating settled in and you will quickly start playing against people your skill level. You will likely get stomped a lot early on, but that stops after just a few games with massive elo drops.
I appreciate the tips, but I’ve long resigned myself to the fact that, like DnD and Warhammer, chess is one of the classic nerd things that I just can’t do.
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I feel like with chess it’s always the kids that absolutely dominate everyone else.
We just only take note of the weirdos who got an early manual and obsessed over it, not the ones shoving the knights up their nose.
My problem is that there is very limited amount of such people :/ People either don’t or can’t play chess or are really into it.
And of course there is always this one guy/gal who’s like “Let’s play, you’ll probably beat me because I’m really rookie el oh el. Yeah I’m in local chess club but there are much better players than me. It’s true that this one time I finished second in that chess championship but …”
There has to be some online chess simulators that match opponents based on skill-level. Playing IRL might be tougher to find, but if you’re in school I would look for chess clubs there.
Tried one of those once. It just opened Minesweeper for me.
Oh yeah, that point in an interest where you learn just enough to realize how little you know.