*me overthinking and completely missing the most straightforward and sensible move, completely screwing up my chances of winning
GayDude1988 on
Nah. Old mistakes hurt more and are often permanent. Like a butterfly wing and a tornado.
itswook on
Well I just blundered my queen, so…
hotfezz81 on
That’s literally very wrong. Especially in chess. What a terrible analogy.
Your next move is irrelevant after a bad mistake in chess. The games already over. It’s bad form not to immediately fold.
caxco93 on
what if you already got checkmated tho
Royal-Stranger-8440 on
Now that we’re on the subject of chess: I watched an interview with Magnus Carlsen, which touched upon his maturation as a chess player, and his first games, as a child, with his eventual mentor, Garry Kasparov.
Those games blew his mind, and made him realize that his confidence prior to those games had been delusional. And then he added something like: I do think the correct mindset for chess is somewhere between optimistic and delusionally optimistic – otherwise you’re never going to be opportunistic enough to make something happen.
mind_mine on
Umm yes in chess you may have already lost 4 moves ago
BabeInBeta on
past mistakes aren’t just ‘lessons’, they’re part of who we are.
Speciou5 on
Chess is famous for “You made a mistake. I can guarantee Checkmate in 3 moves. It doesn’t matter what your next moves are.”
They literally make puzzles that ask a player to win in 3 moves because they don’t even need AI to pretend to be the other player. You can 100% deterministically beat the puzzle no matter what the opponent does.
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Probably not the game to use for this quote.
not always lmfao
*me overthinking and completely missing the most straightforward and sensible move, completely screwing up my chances of winning
Nah. Old mistakes hurt more and are often permanent. Like a butterfly wing and a tornado.
Well I just blundered my queen, so…
That’s literally very wrong. Especially in chess. What a terrible analogy.
Your next move is irrelevant after a bad mistake in chess. The games already over. It’s bad form not to immediately fold.
what if you already got checkmated tho
Now that we’re on the subject of chess: I watched an interview with Magnus Carlsen, which touched upon his maturation as a chess player, and his first games, as a child, with his eventual mentor, Garry Kasparov.
Those games blew his mind, and made him realize that his confidence prior to those games had been delusional. And then he added something like: I do think the correct mindset for chess is somewhere between optimistic and delusionally optimistic – otherwise you’re never going to be opportunistic enough to make something happen.
Umm yes in chess you may have already lost 4 moves ago
past mistakes aren’t just ‘lessons’, they’re part of who we are.
Chess is famous for “You made a mistake. I can guarantee Checkmate in 3 moves. It doesn’t matter what your next moves are.”
They literally make puzzles that ask a player to win in 3 moves because they don’t even need AI to pretend to be the other player. You can 100% deterministically beat the puzzle no matter what the opponent does.