How to Handle Painful Blunders

@cavalier-spaniel said in #9:
> War metaphors are as old as chess literature.

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Also, chess itself as a war metaphor, why not. But people trying to push their ego/masculinity by comparing *Themselves* as warriors because they didnn't die after making a blunder, I still find that pathetic.
We are moving pieces on a board. Anyone who thinks of themselves as a warrior or a general or whatever because of that needs to come down of their high horses.
Especially when they push this wierd immage just to sell stuff, and especially Avetik, since they wrote a couple of articles with this metaphor, enough to know that they mean it seriously and see themselves as some kind of hero.

Edit :
Also, where does the metaphor ends? If we see chess players as warriors, why not starcraft players? Scrabble players? settlers of catan players? Ans if everyone is a "warrior", then no one is...

@TurtleMat

Well, whether you like it or not, chess IS a war game. And the chess player is master (general) of the pieces, i.e. of his army! That is the nature of Chess.

@odoaker2015

Then Nigel Richards is the best warrior of all times ;)

@TurtleMat Do you mean the scrabble player? Since when is Scrabble a war game? You are missing the point!

@CSKA_Moscou said in #8:
> viking chess pieces. the one with the shield represents a berserker, a Scandinavian warrior type who fought in a trance state by biting shield and weapons
yes,anh do you know?

@odoaker2015 said in #14:
> @TurtleMat Do you mean the scrabble player? Since when is Scrabble a war game? You are missing the point!

Chess is not a war game. It's a perfect information strategy game, whose figures happen to have some connection to war things -in some language. When did you see a Bishop on the front lines? the two main figures are called king and queen, is it a war game or a monarchy game? in german, the pawns are called farmers, is it also an agricultural game? War is not perfect information. Scrabble is also a strategy game. Without perfect information. Which makes it closer to a war game than chess, if we want to be technical.

But you also don't see people playing war simulations or starcraft or wathever thinking that wining at these games makes them share attributes with their fictional figures ("warrior").

Chess is a really complex skill, and mastering it is an achievment, no question. But it's also a really narrow skill, and a hard one to transfer at that.

To anyone who think they are resillient/strong/etc because they can overcome a "painfull blunder/loss", I seriously hope that life won't hit you with anything serious, because you are not ready.

@TurtleMat

o boy o boy, you are completely wrong! And of course chess is a war game!

@Phamquangthang3d said in #15:
> yes,anh do you know?
It's the Lewis chess set, discovered in 19th century in hebrides. The berserker is a stylized rook, the one with a hand on her face is a Queen

This helped a lot specially the deleting move and keep the right mood:)