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Student, Digital Marketer @ University of Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
2055
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Manhandled in Black and White
<p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>The beautiful thing about chess is the variety in skill levels and the ability or ways that an upset can happen to one of a higher skill set who is <em>sure </em>he has the match in the bag.</p><p><br/></p><p>I rarely play physical games, mostly because of my personal lack of a board and opponents.</p><p>So this being my first physical chess game this month, the perspective switch was blinding (literally).</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1004761581.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p>As one can see, online you have somewhat like an aerial POV of the board, you can see and predict moves easier.</p><p>Well for me, in my match yesterday, it wasn't until 6 moves had passed that I was able to adjust.</p><p>In those 6 moves, I had missed a beautiful blunder my opponent had made, and I had made 3 scary blunders myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was better than my opponent.</p><p>I knew it, he knew it too.</p><p>Yet, the change of perspective and the missed opportunities affected my mindset.</p><p>I made numerous mistakes, so many mistakes that I had to just start laughing.</p><p>It was an embarrassing defeat as you can see from the header picture above.</p><p><br/></p><p>The next picture posted is from another lichess game where I made mistakes too.</p><p>I want to blame it on a damaged mindset from my physical game but naaa</p><p><br/></p><p>This was just me being stupid 😂😭</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1004761663.jpg"/></p><p><br/></p><p>It's even funnier, because I think I saw all or at least 10 of all blunders he made, then I went and made my own blunder in turn😭😂😂</p><p><br/></p><p>It was a disheartening match, one that after he checkmated I screamed and then slept 😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>Taking one or two days rest and going back in there.</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm planning on growing my ELO to 900-950 before September, so we have no time to waste.</p><p><br/></p><p>Here's a link to the lichess match Incase you want to watch my foolishness in 4D😂</p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://lichess.org/y7VCESIH/black" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lichess.org/y7VCESIH/black </a></p>
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