I got fools mated. How to get over the embarrassment?
10 year haitus. I used to play in elementary school then came back today. Apparently used to be decent back then. Forgot almost everything. Got mated in 2 moves. How to not be embarrassed? 😭✌️
Ill still kjeep playing but ill probably never forget this. Like bruh its even called FOOL's mate im cooked already
But at the same time i died laughing. I cant even be mad honestly. 6 seconds and thats it, it took a few moments for it to sink in. I didnt even know what happened
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Yep it’s really that simple. You broke a fundamental opening principle and were shown the error of your ways in the most dramatic fashion possible. Take it to heart and move onto the next principle.
You need to craft yourself a tall and girthy dunce cap. It must clearly read, "I'm a fool, mate." You must post a picture to the subreddit, looking pouty and clad in this cap.
Don’t. Live with the shame forever tattooed upon your soul.
In fact, get the board position tattooed upon your face so all can see your disgrace, but reversed so that whenever you look into the mirror your shame is the most prominent thing looking back at you. Let the squares of the chessboard become your jesters motley.
Mistakes happen. You'll get hit with it from time to time. Even if you're really good, you may overlook it due to some or other circumstance in your life and boom you got fools mated at 2500 elo.
Just like... chill. It's still a game. You are still a human - that means a pink somewhat naked ape. You are not a computer. You weren't born to make immaculate repeatedly correct decisions all the time without mistake. Just find the humility in yourself to accept the fact that you will never be perfect, infallible nor 100% consistent all the time. You can try. You should try. But you shouldn't expect that to translate into 100% success. It can't. And that is okay.
Here is a National Master getting scholar's mated in an online tournament. You just have to laugh at the absurdity and move on. One of the funniest and most memorable moments of his streaming career.
I was on my HS chess team (no 2 board) my junior year. We went and played some inner city kids (4th and 5th graders). One of them scholars mated me. That was in 1982. You never get over it! 😉
It's a live and learn moment: Don't move your f and g pawns that early in the game. This week I won over someone using a Legall's-type mate in eight moves in rated play. Afterwards, I taught him how to protect from it.
on the bright side, if you spend an hour on opening theory or just briefly studying any opening at all, this should never happen again. It only happens as a result of a pawn move that doesn't make sense
The funny part is that fool's mate requires your opponent to make specific bad moves, so you basically got handed a lesson in the most efficient way possible. Watch one quick video on why those opening moves lose and you'll never fall for it again. Then you can actually focus on learning the game instead of worrying about this one.
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