Have you got that same bitter taste in your mouth as I? The cheating storm has taken centre stage yet almost all of it is conjecture. What a bloody let down. Just where is the strife towards perfectionism going to take us? Who knows but when the day comes and we’ve finally moved on, we will all be better for it. Poor old Hans Niemann.
I’ve started playing for my county again although albeit only online. Me thinketh round trips totalling thousands of miles shan’t be played out, and instead, I shall stay here by my tod in this yellowly desert. Yep that’s the plan. So er online games then. Well you get all of three days to make a move but the real challenge comes when you have to prize yourself away from blitz. Too many bad habits have crept in and not enough time is taken when it’s me to move. Snap out of all that I must but how?
Well anyway we’ve got two Sicilians and there’s not much to say about either except in the game where I am black my opponent played a line I think is not very good. I shall know in about ten moves if I am right. But what are we to make of the event itself? OTB chess and online chess are world’s apart. The sense of occasion is lost when you go on line, its all very unserious stuff.
My current form is poor, I’m not usually interested much when I play. It will take months more before the decision making process which envelops chess play is back to what it should be -that being a highly evolved, highly complex phenomenon where I end up badgering myself and repeating the same mistakes.
Do I miss OTB chess? You bet. I miss it more than I can put into words…aha…I know what’s coming here. I am getting all nostalgic. Does this mean another odd post? There’s been more than a few of them in the last few months. I can tell you what it means. It doesn’t mean anything. Above all, I will write more drivel because I like to write. But how anyone could or why anyone would want to read all this stuff I don’t know. If we are being honest, even I don’t like it.
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