Why I Can't Get Into Chess
The biggest barrier to entry for me is the fact that this game has been studied by people much smarter than I, not to mention thousands of years of strategy development.
I move my pawn forward two spaces and all of a sudden my opponent says ah, I see you are playing the Belarusian PIT maneuver and then they play the Sicilian Deep Dive and in 20 moves I get checkmated.
Any advice?
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as mentioned above, what is your goal? Use your brain a bit, ie pass some time while waiting in a que or bus? Use your brain alot?
Apps like Chess.com automatically rate your play and then will match you with opponents with similar ratings, so you will automatically have a good game. Sometimes they will still know some tricks, but since the games are rated, the trick advantage will be shortlived and you will get good games.
Some people just want the illusion that, because a thing is new, that they can be one of the best in the world at it with relatively little effort.
Yeah the original question seems a bit pointless? How can you do anything that has ever been researched if you are not hard working and/or smart thus probably won't contribute anything new? Just do what you enjoy.
Seems like you do not enjoy it all that much. If that is the case, why bother? I never seemed to get into fishing (although I do know how to fish), so I do not fish.
The biggest barrier to entry for me is the fact that this game has been studied by people much smarter than I, not to mention thousands of years of strategy development.
I move my pawn forward two spaces and all of a sudden my opponent says ah, I see you are playing the Belarusian PIT maneuver and then they play the Sicilian Deep Dive and in 20 moves I get checkmated.
Any advice?
Don't worry about that, you're not a world class player and probably never will be, so just have fun with the game and learn the basics first
