Seriously, I have not been this tilted since the last time I played Brawlhalla and League of Legends.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Whether the game is chess or League or whatever, your tilting comes from yourself, not from the game.

    You probably know some people who play those same games and don’t tilt, even when they get a really bad break. Use those people as role models and get control of yourself.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    I think the better you get the more frustrating it is to lose. Many of us barely know how the pieces move. I did not know about opasa or whatever until college.

  • expr@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    It’s only frustrating if you’re solely focused on winning rather than improving, and especially if you do what I so often see, which is view your chess skill as a proxy for your intelligence (and thus take losses as a personal insult).

    Smart people are not automatically great chess players. Chess is a skill you can develop that rewards time, dedication, patience, and lots and lots of practice (and losses).

    In fact, losing a game of chess is incredibly valuable, and much more useful than almost any other game. You have a complete record of your game, and since no luck is involved, you can study your game and identify where you can improve. Reviewing your games is one of the best ways to get better at chess, and objectively looking at your game from both players’ perspectives also helps to make it more about improvement rather than personal failure. In fact, it’s fairly standard after an over the board game for both players to review the game together on the board and talk through lines and thoughts on the various positions of the game.

    It’s one of the things I really love about the game, because it’s always about getting better rather than punishment for losing. It’s much, much better than video games in this way.

    When I play chess, I mostly just want to have a good game of chess, even if I lose. I always take the opportunity to play much higher rated players given the chance, because even though I will almost certainly lose, the game will be a very rich one to review and learn from.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      11·
      7 hours ago

      IMO that makes it less frustrating than a game of chance or randomness. You can strategize and learn to improve at least with chess.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Almost exactly what I came to say, in Chess you lose fair and square based on how well you play.
      And Chess always has the enjoyment of trying to figuring out the puzzle.
      Games that have an element of chance, you can lose to the statistically improbable, despite being the better player.

      In pure chance based games, it doesn’t really matter IMO, because it’s purely chance.

  • Thorry@feddit.org
    8·
    8 hours ago

    You might want to try some of the Souls games and enjoy whole new levels of being tilted.

  • webpack@ani.social
    1·
    5 hours ago

    probably not, I feel like games where losses are out of your control are way worse (but if it’s too random then you might not care about losing anymore?)