Originally Posted by Firegoat7
AC humor me for a minute here. You make it sound like such a negative experience for a weaker player to play in a tournament. I really don't understand your viewpoint at all.
Personally I have always felt that tournament chess is the best environment for a player to develop. It does not matter at what level a player starts. The only important attribute is to keep striving to become a better player. Losing badly at a chess tournament has its positive side. It is how a person deals with losing that is the most important factor in their development not a past result.
To be quite honest, the benefits from playing far outweigh the negatives in my mind.
cheers,
Well you are wrong about beniftis outweighing negatives smarty pants coz in that book the psychology of chess that psychologist stated that the misery of losing is greater than the joy of winning, that the misery lasts longer. And if a player wins very little or not at all (as was my example) then there is a lot of misery. I have even heard of such players even becoming depressed over their losses, and even having mental breakdowns. So Mr Socialogist I have taught you something.
The player I was referring to had been playing for years and still had not got far off the bottom, admittingly I don't know if there are other players like this because this one just happen to be a loudmouth about how much he enjoyed the Doberl.
Also there are players at the bottom who go in comps and are so (almost) hopeless and slow that they just aggravate other players - more negativity hall-wise that positivity here. Amongst juniors much more common, when they don't know how to win or lose a game (i.e. to actually move) when not a short time limit.
I have backed you up in that other thread so go easy on me. See I can crawl to you as well as KB. But KB reakons he does not like crawlers.