i totally agree this guy archerfish123...

you´r lucky if your oponent makes a mistake, wich can happen when he is preasured by time 

Luck = preparation+inspiration

in chess, hard work = good luck

Your opponent making a mistake isn't luck.  It's skill.  If you were more skilled you would know what was going on in the middle of the board, and if your opponent was more skilled he would as well.

You are lucky if your opponent makes a mistake.

"The harder I work, the luckier I get"

~ Samuel Goldwyn  

you could have posted something more interesting i guess...

It was not luck; your move c5 is not a weak move. Your luck was the mistake made by your opponent...

Hi could play 2. ...Bg5 with better chances for white.

You could play 1.  Be5, Rb8 or ...h6, but I know what a blitz geme mean..

Good luck, you are a good blitz player! Aurel63 - see one of my blitz games

I agree wholeheartedly about luck being an important part in chess for the player who miscalculates but finds the situation is in the end advantageous for him. It has happened to me several times. In fact I raised the point to the guy who runs the chess club in my school because we had a game, and I made a few great moves, though I only saw their goodness after I made them. He said that if you look it at that way, there is luck in pretty much everything. He also said that I would not have gotten in the position to make my lucky moves had I not had my previous knowledge to get me there in the first place. Perhaps that's the bright side for us whom lady luck favours.

 

That's an interesting point itaibn raised, comparing luck in chess to luck in where you are born. After all, is it not luckier for the person born in a nourishing, loving, and intellectually stimulating environment over someone whose environment turns them into someone "bad"?

I suppose one would have to define luck as a term for discussion. Because on the one hand, luck can be defined in terms of random chance, i.e. rolling a pair of dice. But in the example lostapiece brings up, that is, your opponent not having thought the line all the way through, it would seem that the situation would be better described as "fortunate" for black. These words have the same colloquial meaning, but I think they would carry meaning if you were going to try and determine whether luck plays a role in chess. I personally think it does, but I lack the energy at the moment to disect any further.

Yes, luck plays an important role.  I have played games in which I would have lost but my opponent missed the clincher--that's luck in my book.

If chess isn't luck, then the fact that you were born who you are isn't luck either. I can go on to more details, but I'm not going to bother.

but is it luck or just a miscalculation by the other player,we cant all see so many moves and combo`s ahead butif you take it to its extreme that position should have been in whites calculations ? !