tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post4050643468338091386..comments2024-01-29T13:41:11.764-05:00Comments on Blunder Prone .... Imagination, Inspiration and Improvement: The amateur’s scramble mindBlunderPronehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08316158004635698398noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-11713546714486383062010-05-07T05:49:16.296-05:002010-05-07T05:49:16.296-05:00Hmmmm, i thought the use of ipod (have read many ...Hmmmm, i thought the use of ipod (have read many times about the use of this device during play on americain blogs) and such was forbidden since during play we may not have any outside help. <br /><br />Who says that between those songs isn't a long recording of opening moves? Who says that the volume isn't disturbing the opponent? Afterall, one peep of a cellphone and you lose by forfeit, what is the difference with an ipod? It makes noise aswell.<br /><br />And what is this crap with those floors? Just give the players the rating they deserve by the games they have played. This floor gives players a false sense of safety since they cannot drop lower then their floor. With other words, in the USA i would always be a 1900 player no matter my results, here in Belgium i will probably drop below 1900 thanks to my recent results and rightly so since my results didn't give me any right to be still a 1900 player.<br /><br />Anyway, good luck with the lessons learned, i hope you can magically turn those weaknessess into strenghts.From the patzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499383398575774704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-88833441723392519722010-05-04T20:05:12.126-05:002010-05-04T20:05:12.126-05:00Howard:
I have been using various forms of medita...Howard:<br /><br />I have been using various forms of meditation to for quite awhile.<br /><br />There are a lot of different ways to approach it and is indeed beneficial, and not just for chess.<br /><br />I often do a quick meditation-(I am using the term broadly)-before a musical performance. Sometimes I use music sometimes I don't. I have even used a very watered down breath meditation to help my drum students learn how to focus themselves quickly.<br /><br />So it does work! It isn't a cure all and will never replace preparation and hard work but it DOES allows us to harness all our preparation and hard work to their utmost!<br /><br />Yoga is also good for this as well.Tommyghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836893561110796499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-4108598047195721922010-05-04T13:24:42.452-05:002010-05-04T13:24:42.452-05:00Maybe that wasn't Kansas, maybe that was Dylan...Maybe that wasn't Kansas, maybe that was Dylan.Howard Goldowskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16664313862386539477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-78966464146610089652010-05-04T12:19:13.115-05:002010-05-04T12:19:13.115-05:00My mind works just too slow to find the time to be...My mind works just too slow to find the time to become distracted.<br /><br />There is one situation where I use earplugs though. One of my fellow clubmates has dentures which doesn't fit well. So he is creaking with it all the time. Allthough I'm usually a very quiet guy, something snaps after 4 hours of creaking. I estimate his dentures to be worth at least a bishop!Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-18958218760328540172010-05-04T11:14:02.985-05:002010-05-04T11:14:02.985-05:00Which Cake song queued up on your iPod?
Cake is o...Which Cake song queued up on your iPod?<br /><br />Cake is one of my favorite groups, but I don't think I could listen to them while playing chess.rockyrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244111671544689660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-70749488870764912112010-05-04T10:42:46.010-05:002010-05-04T10:42:46.010-05:00Move over ChessLoser humor, here comes BP.
That&#...Move over ChessLoser humor, here comes BP.<br /><br />That's too funny. I recently started listening to Leonard Cohen, bought my first Leonard Cohen CD, and was listening to it driving to the tournament Saturday morning. Halleluja was on in my car when I hit the Senior Center parking lot! That goddamn Leonard Cohen was stuck in my head all weekend, too. I thought it was going to be cool to have LC stuck in my head, and in some respects it is better than a lot of other crap.... At some point during Round 4, in a won position, I had Kansas stuck in my head. "...the answers my friend, are blowin' in the wind...." I thought I was being coy humming that song to myself, because I thought I had the position figured out. But I lost the game and my brain had the last laugh.<br /><br />Josh Waitzkin, in "The Art of Learning," writes that he used to think in rhythm to whatever song was stuck in his head. He would calculate variations to the beat of the music. Instead of the song being a distraction, it was an aid to thinking. I strive to do this, and I'm getting better at it, but I'm still not perfect. <br /><br />It's really about training oneself to concentrate better. I'm thinking about taking up meditation, in order to concentrate better. The practice should take only ten minutes per day, and the benefits should be many-fold. Meditation could really focus my mind to be in the moment. Isn't that what we all want during a chess game, to be in the moment? This is all very Zen, but all very appropriate for a mental sport like chess. I'm not quite sure where to begin, though. Has anybody out there tried meditation?<br /><br />HowardHoward Goldowskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16664313862386539477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-63882759201540052012010-05-04T09:52:46.454-05:002010-05-04T09:52:46.454-05:00Unitarian Universalist :)Unitarian Universalist :)BlunderPronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08316158004635698398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-59738959650752435162010-05-04T09:13:18.533-05:002010-05-04T09:13:18.533-05:00Wait a minute...you're liberal AND go to churc...Wait a minute...you're liberal AND go to church???? I thought that was impossible...Liquid Egg Producthttp://www.liquideggproduct.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23075362.post-8735569511979479022010-05-02T21:35:00.983-05:002010-05-02T21:35:00.983-05:00I have a goal for my next tournament game. I want...I have a goal for my next tournament game. I want to see if I can examine 5 different replies on each move, really stress width rather than depth. <br /><br />It's easy to see your move, hit your max reasonable depth, and then walk away or look at something else and stop thinking about the game.<br /><br />I want to go wide and see how that works for me, that way I won't "miss" a move, such as you did with your chance for a pawn-chain.<br /><br />It's weird, doing other things physical or even programming, my concentration can be broken, but not with chess, it really can't be broken by external event, perhaps because it's been so well trained over time. <br /><br />I'm always amazed when others put in ear plugs. OTH, kids can be somewhat distracting because as adults we are trained to care about their emotional state. It doesn't pay to, however, when you are playing a game against them.LinuxGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15764940044950170053noreply@blogger.com