>matchmaking keeps setting you against scrubs you've beaten time and time again
>quit the match and refuse to play until you get new opponents
>matchmaking keeps setting you against scrubs you've beaten time and time again
>matchmaking keeps setting you against scrubs you've beaten time and time again
>quit the match and refuse to play until you get new opponents
Ganker is my news source.
How far up his own ass is this boy?
I agree with that statement. He's already rich so if he doesn't actually like playing World Championship matches he shouldn't have to.
>#1 STD. Rank
My dude has jungle fever.
I would be up my own ass to if I was one of the greatest chess player to ever exist.
On a sidenote, it's funny I recently began thinking about chess and have been seeing more and more related stuff on Ganker. I still need improve more at fighting games and especially RTS, though. Then I think I'll learn about chess and tetris. I've become increasingly fascinated by the competitive scene of these games for some reason.
You'll never be amazing at chess if you didnt start young and had an affinity for it.
Not amazing, just competent and to be able to understand what exactly is going on when I watch a match. If I get even above average skill in 3 other completely different competitive games like I did with FGs in a couple of years time, I'll be more than satisfied.
This isn't a bullshit post. There's a critical period for getting patterns down like the pros and your brain no longer has the elasticity to make all the memorization required second nature.
You can still be a terror on the chessboard don't get me wrong, but you're very highly unlikely to get to SGM level
He has been dominating since he was a little boy. When you are that undeniably skilled at something you can afford to have an ego.
As a chess player anon.
That's not something that's translatable into ..anything?
It's not like he's good at esports, RTS games with his superior tactics and memorisation.
It's not like he's won medals at the olympics representing his country.
He's good at chess, the best in fact.
But that's all he's the best at and it's like a "wow that's cool" kind of achievement, it's not like you can playfully offer a match.
A chess player isn't going to be rolling down red carpets and attending premiers are they?
He's reached the highest point of the only mountain he knows how to climb amazingly well.
But it's not like he can jump to another moutain is it?
this sounds like jealousy
It sounds like you are projecting your aspirations onto him. I haven't kept up with professional chess for awhile and honestly never really followed it that closely to begin with but so many chess players aren't looking for fame. Maybe recognition but probably not red carpets.
I have no aspirations when it comes to chess anon, like I have no aspirations for most things that I see no reason to do; same as everyone else.
Chess players aren't meant to be globally recognised in honesty, but then again neither are actors. Sadly, recognistion is literally an actors resume; not with chess players. There's no need or reason for a chess player to have an ego about how good they are at chess.
Easy to say that isn't it?
>There's no need or reason for a chess player to have an ego about how good they are at chess
Maybe not for you. You haven't dedicated your life to it. It is recognition of your hard work and skill. Not sure what makes you say chess players aren't supposed to be recognized globally either. It sounds like you just have a low opinion of it. Maybe not low but certainly not high. People excel in many different fields. When you are the very best at something I would say you deserve global recognition.
>Chess players aren't meant to be globally recognised in honesty
This is true but not for the reasons you understand however. Chess had a warranted reputation as an intellectual game hundred years in the past because you had to invest both genuine talent and insurmountable amount of theoretical study to actually be competent at it.
Since the period of cold war, the chess as a game is standing on the shoulders of giants. Entire teams coaching national competitors, libraries worth of books on theory and now computer engines. Chess, at least classical chess, has turned into a game emphasizing preparation and memorization rather than improvisation and Fischer accurately pointed out all the problems with it more than 30 years ago.
he's probably the most unpretentious high-level chess player around tbh
he's been strong armed by the israelites into giving up the title so that one of their israelite boys can get it instead
you hate to see it happen
he probably refuse to participate in a fixed match
>matchmaking puts you on the other side of the world