The bad chess generation!
07 Thursday Jun 2012
Guest post by Kevin Owen
OK! So we all have to admit at some point, we all were bad at chess. Yes, yes, it’s hard to say it but we all were bad at chess.
When I started playing chess and got exposed to online playing I started to realise how bad I actually was. Of course I got better on the way but was I improving in the right way??
What do I mean “the right way”? well you see. When you start playing chess you don’t have the correct way of thinking. You don’t open your game correctly, you don’t end correctly and actually you don’t play correctly. This all starts when you start playing against the lower rated players.
In their game you will find that the queen is a huge impact player in the start of the game. Now if you asked a GM about using the Queen in the start of a game he would slap right there and then. The thing is, these lower rated players don’t know this. They find that they can easily destroy opponents with their Queen. You on the other hand start to lose games fast as you can’t defend yourself.
You start to adapt this sort of play into your own games. You start doing the same thing everyone else is doing. You start learning to play “wrong”. This is why the generation of chess is getting worse because these sorts of things are happening. I believe that online chess has had a negative impact on starting players.
Would do you think of this topic?
Regards,
Kevin Owen
http://chesspeeps.wordpress.com/
I am old but still bad at chess. I don’t know why though.
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couldn’t disagree more. Online chess is the present and future of chess. You could find just as many poor blunders at a local chess club.
Well I agree with you on that. I touched on than same subject in my new post. http://chesspeeps.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/it-takes-only-5mins-to-become-a-grand-master/
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There was no evidence presented that today’s generation is getting “worse” at chess. As mentioned in the article, most people start out being absolute beginners, but as they learn more, they get better with experience and knowledge. So this topic is absolute rubbish. As for online chess having a negative impact, once again there was no evidence presented to back up this claim. You might as well say elephants can fly.
I totally agree with you on that but that is why I i mentioned it as being one negative impact. I never said it was bad. I also wrote how online chess has shaped the world. http://chesspeeps.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/how-online-chess-shaped-the-world/ That might be to your liking.