Fay’s version of the Daily Bread

Fey_Fey
| Mar 10, 2008 at 1:33pm
| Posted in: Fey_Fey's Blog
| 642 reads
| 8 comments

I make all the right moves on a tactical puzzle site, and then I fail to score a single point the following day.

I scored 1600 one week, then slip right down to 1100 the next week.

I see the puzzle that is on the board. I am able to relate to that pattern that is on that puzzle on the board. Then blank, there is no connection from the cranium to the fingers to the mouse. I make a totally dumb move, lose the whole thing, sulk in misery, and then I order a pizza with everything on it that I hate!

I currently have two games that are sure wins, and I can’t seem to finish it off.

Why did this whirlwind of desire to win simply die down to a gentle breeze?

One thing is for sure. When you sit down to analyze a game, or work on puzzles, you better not have any sick feelings in your tummy.

No melancholic thoughts in your head, no worries that plague your heart, no memory of that crummy day at work, no desire for swearing someone, no wishes for that perfect love, no day dreaming of a better life, and no desire for food or water. And hopefully there will be no bathroom breaks. Well, that’s if it’s not a Blitz game.

So stay focused, remain focused, and repeat.

“All you need is one stray mutt in the yard and that will eventually lead the whole pack of mutts to your doorstep.” And I have no clue as to who was responsible for that quote.

-The End-

Comments

3 years ago
Ojibwe

Thank you for making me think. That is all that I requisition from each logician. I have a feeling that there is more that you can teach the average Chess Player.
So please continue to speak Forthrightly.

Ojibwe - Fay
3 years ago
Firstboard2

I just think your eyes are really quite intriguing and mystifyingly attractive. The same eyes that analyze the board and contemplate the positon transposing so rapidly into undiscovered areas of unchartered pathways of the Chess enigma?
4 years ago
fcpanginen

Lack of concentration, lack of focusing in the game means a lose of the game. if you have a winning game but still you lose it, maybe there's one factor behind it, and that's a grandmaster's quote "dizziness due to success".
4 years ago
penpal

its funny sometimes isnt it,on top of your games one day and going down the next.maybe we get to confident when we win,and thats our down fall we become to relaxed.just a guess
4 years ago
Fey_Fey

Thank you Paul. I will look for it at the local library.

Nice quote Rob.
4 years ago
BruiserMac

Get the book "Chess Tactics by the English International Master Paul Littlewood...
4 years ago
Bob1

Nice blog..
"Concentration is the only way to discover something new and unusual at the chessboard, the only way to create surprise with fresh ideas."-Garry Kasparov, the best
4 years ago
Rael

I hear you loud and clear. I have melancholic thoughts in my head and worries that plague my heart. That very likely affects my rating. What you've said = true.