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| anaxagoras 7/15/2004 15:35:19 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: Humbled by an 8 year old todayMessage: So you think you've been humiliated over the chessboard? Well, today an 8 year old beat me with white two games in a row! Good grief charlie brown. He takes private lessons with the academic chess instructor Albert Rich, who recently reached 2200 uscf. Gosh I'm such a patzer! lol. |
| ketchuplover 7/15/2004 17:27:54 [ report this post ] | Message: Did he resemble Bobby Fischer? |
| paulberg 7/15/2004 17:34:21 [ report this post ] | Should have started younger.. Message: I am 40 and just started chess barely a year ago. I see all these youngsters playing very well and I just wish I started alot younger. Of course, maybe if I did I would have been an intravert and never gone outside. Oh well.. pauL |
| astinkyfart 7/15/2004 19:10:23 [ report this post ] | anaxagoras Message: was this a gk player or someone else? just curious as to who it was. |
| rayjj 7/16/2004 06:05:48 [ report this post ] | Young players Message: I've taught my kids and my grandkids how to play, and now they beat me. I guess I taught them well so I should be proud and happy when they beat me...but losing is losing, no matter how old they are, and it still stings. To me, playing a good game win or lose is all that matters now that I am older. I get a kick out of seeing what I have taught them come back to haunt me...lol. |
| peppe_l 7/16/2004 06:08:36 [ report this post ] | paulberg Message: "I am 40 and just started chess barely a year ago. I see all these youngsters playing very well and I just wish I started alot younger. Of course, maybe if I did I would have been an intravert and never gone outside. Oh well.." You started only a year ago and you are already almost 1500 here. That is pretty impressive! Keep up the good work... Yours, Peppe |
| groove 7/16/2004 06:13:44 [ report this post ] | Message: haha, join the club anax... I was beat in a game of blitz a couple months ago by a 12 yr old at our local dropzone. I hate those moments! , however it brings us all back to reality from our GM aspirations ;) |
| cryptos 7/16/2004 09:17:29 [ report this post ] | beating kids. Message: On the flipside, I played a 6-year old girl twice at the weekend in a tournament, and beat her easily in both games, and felt great about it, even though she could barely write the moves down :). |
| jstack 7/16/2004 10:54:15 [ report this post ] | to keep things in perspective... Message: You have to remember from GMs, IMs, and strong masters were once kids. Don't think of it as being beat by a kid...think of it of being beat by a future master. Anyway, how do you think Capablanca's father felt when his 4 year old son beat him in chess. Caps father did not even teach his son how to play chess. Capablanca learned simply by watching. |
| paulberg 7/16/2004 11:32:19 [ report this post ] | peppe_l Message: "You started only a year ago and you are already almost 1500 here. That is pretty impressive! Keep up the good work... " Thank you. I started last September after my daughter started taking a chess class in school and asked to me to help her. After playing for a few weeks with my daughter I got really curious about the game and strategy so I went and bought my first book (Nick de Firmian's "Chess Openings the Easy Way"). Then I found "It's Your Turn" website. HurrikaneJae referred me to GK in December and I've been here since. I love this whole site. I've visited and tried some other sites, but nothing is better than GK. |
| anaxagoras 7/17/2004 11:00:07 [ report this post ] | Message: No, he's not a GK player, but a student of ours at academic chess. Needless to say, I don't think I can teach him a thing! At least not until I start to take my own private lessons with a 2200 player. ;-) Seriously though, the kid is amazing. I've never encountered such a strong player at his age; he demolishes kids 5 years his senior. I'd like to play him again in a few years and observe his progress. |
| soikins 7/18/2004 04:49:53 [ report this post ] | just forget it Message: A lost to kids quite a lot. For example to a 14 year old girl. Oh, well, she was the U-14 world champion, thought :) There are a lot of strong kids out there. Nowdays they progress so fast, the it leaves me amazed. |
| basti1981 7/18/2004 09:27:00 [ report this post ] | heh, a true story. Message: Since I'm not that old I only knew this story from tellings, but I know both players, the one more the other one less, but anyhow: 12 years or so ago, Jens, a former club mate played a little kid maybe 10 years of age in a Teammatch, well my former clubmate is rated something between 1900 and 2000, so he and his teammates were a little bit joking before the game, if the little kid would need a pillow to see the board and so on and so forth, well he drew the game with a lot of luck, the name of this former youngster: Jan Gustafsson, he is a GM by now and listed under the worlds top 100 with an ELO of 2611. Happened to meet "Gusti" maybe 7 years later at a local youth championship, I didn't have to play him (and honestly speaking I don't really know him), since he's some years older than me, but I saw him once running around a bit with a large grin on his face. Some guys, who knew him better than I do, asked him what he was so happy about. His response was something like this: "The game between and my opponent is now in 30th move of an informant analysis, he has already lost the game and doesn't know it" So don't feel too bad if you lose to youngsters, some of them become quite good. |
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