live and learn
I just checked my International Correspondence Chess Federation games at their helpful webserver, and found that I've managed to take a probably-drawn game and turn it into a probably-lost game through an error I knew to avoid until yesterday, and then made anyway.
It's very frustrating to lose a game that required no losing. But it's good to savor the feeling of disappointment, because in another game, on another day, I will again be faced with the task of ensuring I was not making an error, and I will remember, with a tangy sweetness, the palpable frustration of having dropped this pawn in this way.
Lately I seem to be accumulating more than my share of credit hours at the chess University of Experience. Let's hope her lessons are as useful as they are hard.
I like that about chess. You see your mistakes come back to haunt you directly, in ways from which you can learn (and yet, often, sadly, make once more another time).
It's very frustrating to lose a game that required no losing. But it's good to savor the feeling of disappointment, because in another game, on another day, I will again be faced with the task of ensuring I was not making an error, and I will remember, with a tangy sweetness, the palpable frustration of having dropped this pawn in this way.
Lately I seem to be accumulating more than my share of credit hours at the chess University of Experience. Let's hope her lessons are as useful as they are hard.
I like that about chess. You see your mistakes come back to haunt you directly, in ways from which you can learn (and yet, often, sadly, make once more another time).