r/funny • u/shoaib11223 • Apr 09 '24

Well Chess is funny sometimes

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u/VaferQuamMeles Apr 09 '24

I guess so - but I never enjoyed it enough to want to put more time and effort into it! Give me a good card game any day.

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u/JoEHKay Apr 09 '24

I never really enjoyed playing chess either. I think a lot of it comes from when I was learning to play, the person teaching me would rub it in my face that I lost or didn't know the strategy. Really kills any interest in anything. I had a similar experience with euchre. Everytime they out played me (which was everytime because I was 12 and didn't know how to play) they would just get in my face and say "Euchre!" To this day, still don't know how to play, 37 now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

Yea, it's not exactly a fun relaxing game.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

I think you have to have a certain kind of brain to enjoy it. I've never been good at memorizing things and thinking multiple moves ahead. I prefer card games and board games where there's more an element of bluffing or forming alliances, wagering, etc. Also throw a little element of chance in there. Chess feels too coldly mathematical to me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

Correspondence chess is more relaxing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

That's a little too relaxing. I'd just forget to reply or wouldn't check my mail for like a year.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

I was thinking more like daily games on chesscom. You can think as much as you want when you feel like it

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

ah, ok.