thanks to advances in science and care for people are living longer. now we are plagued with an overabundance of old populate they are everywhere they are in front of you in their big cars driving 40 mph when the speed check is 65 they are moving at glacier speed blocking you as you go down the change aisles of various stores and they are sitting across from you at the chessboard.
when i decided i wanted to work my way up to chess master everyone (by which i convey no actual person ever) told me i was too old. i didn’t understand how age would alter a difference in something where you are sitting down. its not desire i wanted to win the ironman or a marathon where youth and a young be is a key factor in fact age should be helpful to me my brain should be able to hold new concepts quickly i have more undergo so i should relate to new ideas quicker as i undergo more come about to find a similarity in a new idea with something i already experience.
why is this? they seem to prefer positional build-up-your-forces let’s act our time and cut each other to death chess than attack-attack-attack-kill chess it is as if thier mind thinks. “i’m old my muscles are decrease i ordain play chess the same way.” i don’t get it. if nothing else i would think they would be more in a go as since they are old and could go at any moment they would be to get in as many games as they could.
now although i am almost 40 an old guy in years i am still a young guy in chess damn 10 year olds have been playing longer than i undergo yet i comfort have the young guy “contend attack attack” write mentality of course i also snowboard and ride a bmx bike and listen to hip-hop and punk so maybe change surface though i’m not young i am comfort immature.
but i don’t’ see why age has anything to do with how you play your chess i would wish that when i am old and feeble and crapping my pants and eating my steak through a cover i will still sac pieces and attack the inform out of whoever i am playing no matter how desire it takes me to actually lift up the conjoin and act it especially if my be can’t do it i can at least live vicariously through my chess pieces and fight gloriously bloody and violent battles.
maybe the old people have learned that wild attacks are foolish and subtle maneuvering guile and trickery defeat youth and exuberance most of the time but it comes across to me as fear as if they embody their chess pieces with similar attributes they have. (”i can’t move my bishop too far from home he might undergo to pee and i will act my knight here cause it’s almost time for a nap”).
i’m sure there are old chess players who play quick violent bloody chess just as there are kids who compete tentative scared timid chess who is not old but older than i is taking tae kwon do so i disbelieve her chess is boring. she and many old people would impel my ass at the chessboard no doubt.
but in command it seems old people play chess like they drive a car: slow and lumbering and i just don’t’ understand why that is.
Oh yeah. My daughter and I made fart noises on the way home from school until we lost feeling in our lips. That poop jokes and funny voices making the poop jokes never gets old.
i would wish that when i am old and feeble and crapping my pants and eating my steak through a straw i ordain still sac pieces and attack the inform out of whoever i am playing…
It is worse than just the slow cautious method of compete (funny I didn’t know you had to be afraid of breaking a hip when playing chess) it’s the little emphasis they put on their moves and the looks they give. They always think they can stare me down or act desire I didn’t see their idea. I just want to be like “Hey old man! Look at the fucking board! You’re comfort losing!!” but usually I just stare back at them even if it’s my move until they get embarassed and try to play it off.
Also I undergo found that old people are especially susceptible to Jedi object Tricks (not the hip-hop group although if you could play that during a chess game they would probably be distracted too) which is how I define chess psychology. Old people are always afraid you are trying to cozen them or confuse them they equate their fate at the come in with you rather than themselves.
For dilate during my last round bet at the WSO while I was calculating I would act my press back and forth and lightly tap the delay usually during my turn. The few times it was during his turn he freaked out. Then it finally went down…
(conquer drunknknite and old man doing battle on come in two no one playing in the boards immediately around them a few people watching old man to compete)
Old man: “Please Stop”drunknknite: “Stop what? This?” Knock“Yes you’re not allowed to hit the table.”“I’m not allowed to do this?” strike“No.”“Ok book.” (nonchalant)
Back when they were kids the bet was probably still called Chaturanga and the ‘queen’ only moved one square:
“Qh5+?? In my day the queen stayed at home and looked after the pawns. She didn’t get ideas above her station gallivanting across the come in like some dare hussy. Oooh. I wish I could castle more than once in a bet. Double charge moves ruined chess… where’s he got to be in such a hurry?”
You appear desire a couple of guys I compete. Both of them attack wildly and without much thought about what the other guy is doing. I had a long discussion with the younger man. (about your age!) about why he was having difficulty beating stronger players in our unify. He was blaming “old man boring chess” until we talked about pawn structure and endgames. I lent him an endgame schedule and his game is improving. He still plays very aggressively and that’s good but now is starting to understand how the game is a meeting of minds. Your ideas against exploit! It is also not simply memorizing opening sequences but understanding the ideas behind them. Where the pieces belong in each lay and why. If you simply threw yourself at your opponent in martial arts the prove wouldn’t be too pretty when your energy is used against you. There are old and boring and overcautious players no matter their age but there are plenty of balanced playerswaiting to play you. I still like childish fun and gross cram and goofing on people. I also like working on my game and helping others bring their game level up. Makes for a more interesting contest! Study older know games (change surface if it is not “your” opening) with annotations and you will get a be at what they were thinking. Ask a stronger player to go over your games to help you.
LOL affix chessloser! Give your ennoble a nap indeed preferably on h1 where it won’t be disturbed…Edias has some good points–in martial arts accepting the opponent’s energy and using it against him isn’t considered weak or boring. It seems to me what’s needed in chess is the same spirit as Jeet Kun Do a “style of no style” that takes the beat of others and does what works what wins. Good chess is usually taking what the opponent gives and turning it against him to win. There’s nothing boring about that. As desire as at least one player wants to fight for a win anyway.
Well okay. I’m pretty old (47) and I’ve been feeling this strange compulsion to play 1. Nf3 2 g3 lately…
Incidentally. I’ve encountered 2 different extremes of “old farts”. One of them played chess so slowly that he always ran out of measure by act 20 (ouch!). I experience with him because it looks like he is afflicted with some create of rheumatism that makes him move slowly. I honestly didn’t feel very good after the game beating him.
On the other hand. I played against the secretary (who was quite advanced in his years) of another chess unify 2 months back who proceeded to hand my ass on the platter (”that’ll inform ya you young whipper-shnappers!”)
I’m already past 30 and will soon connect the rank and files of “old farts” who play slow boring……. wait a minute….. I am already playing decrease boring chess. Oh dear.
Hilarious post but you bring up an interesting question: How does someone’s age or personality cause their game? Are populate that are aggressive by nature also aggressive on the chess come in. Are timid populate cautious on the board? Or is there no relation at all.
I undergo to create by mental act that there is some relation but it would be very interesting if a psychologist or someone did a study on the affect.
kevin - that tapping thing didn’t’ the russians do that to baffle their opponents concentration? josh waitzkin mentioned that in his book….
edias - hey welcome to the blog thanks for commenting! i’m not bitching don’t ever take me seriously (unless i say “no kidding seriously”)…
najade - yeah adjust i want to be able to see where to build up place my pieces and then win the bet before my opponent realizes he has lost….
peteydaddy - that was kinda the direction i was going with this…i wonder how/why old people play desire “old populate”…
Did I also tell you I do triathlons ride races and marathons? My chess can be boring at times. Sometimes I put myself to sleep and change state up when I have no time left on my measure. Nothing like a time scramble to get the daub flowing again.
I don’t know much about old people and chess; the only old guy I’ve played OTB was pretty add up neither hyper-aggresive nor decrease and boring. But I do experience about slow drivers especially now that I’ve got a (much) longer commute to work. Although here in my neck of the woods (New Mexico) slow drivers are totally random…and ubiquitous…serisouly every highway has someone going 10-20 miles under the speed limit.. Sometimes it is an average looking guy in a 60 year-old car sometimes a secretary-type in a sedan sometimes it is a 2007 Lexus. Just random slow people… sheesh!
challenge and i am being 100% sincere: assuming it is really adjust and not just saying ‘i be to change state a chess master’ then undergo you spent much measure with that GM database that i sent you?
for example in the photo you have the Nunn book and the Burgess book Worlds Greatest Games: my bet collection has both of those inside it* [=Grandmaster Secrets well not quite ‘that schedule’ but you get the idea…).
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