Was your gamed helped at all

Going along with your theory, should I prepare by watching depressing movies? What is THE most depressing movie of all times? I wonder.

The Elephant Man(1980)

No one has wasted more time trying to improve at chess than me. For every hour of productive study, I take a ten hour detour to nowhere town.

You and I are about equal in Live Chess playing strength. I suggest that we play two games at 15 10 or longer (unrated is just fine), each of us with a chance at playing White, followed by self annotations without using chess engines, explaining the reasons behind ALL of our moves. After e-mailing the great chess genius waffllemaster a delighful desert, I'm sure he will be most happy to take a look at our annotations, and fix the thoughts that are beyond dumb.

Example: "I've come to realize that many mistakes for any level stem from having these bad tapes stuck on repeat in our heads... In this game your bad tape was that diagonal for your bishop :)" - waffllemaster

That comment alone will improve my chess performance by 50 points, since I make far too many moves with my brain set to autopilot. After pondering the bad tape comment all day, Waffllemaster opened my eyes to the fact that my play is far too rigid. Light squared bishops are always good on c4, targeting f7, right?

On a serious note: After reading waffllemaster's comments of my self annotated game (Stuck Bishop), I could tell that he understands chess a hundred times more than me. You don't need a National Master to go over your games with you. A much stronger player will be plenty good.

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