Holy crow am I frustrated right this second.
I watched what is probably my all-time favorite movie, Searching For Bobby Fischer, the other night and since then I've had a bit of a chess bug. I used to be pretty decent at chess back when I played it a lot (1999-ish). I didn't always win, but I always hung in to the bitter end. Well, nearly ten years of not playing has left me incapable of scoring a victory over even the most novice of chess players.
The reason this is so frustrating is not because I don't like losing. I don't love losing, but if I really feel like I'm playing my best and someone still beats me, I'm not one to whine about it. No, what is so frustrating is that I KNOW FOR A FACT that I'm a better chess player than what I've been putting on display lately would make anyone believe.
And I cannot figure out what on earth is wrong with me. I cannot figure out what I used to do that I'm not doing now. Basically, I know how the pieces move and I've lost everything else I had learned about chess. I have NO idea what happened to my brain in the last ten years, but if my head were an apartment building, I'd be standing outside the door where Mr. Chess Skills lived ten years ago just knocking and knocking, wondering if he even lives there anymore.
Arrrrrrgh. I'm actually giving myself a headache.
And I actually have stuff in the works for this place too, but I'm too frustrated to do anything right now.
Excuse me while I go bang my head on something hard for a while.
2 comments:
Wait, aren't you rusty? Give yourself a LITTLE time. Let yourself get back into The Chess Zone!
I love that movie, but I recommend reading the book. It's totally different. If you treat them as 2 separate things, you can still enjoy the movie. If you like some type of accuracy in movies, it makes it a tougher movie to watch
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