Don't you play chess to learn something and have fun?
Also to compete with each other is a way both help each other to try harder giving their best and learn more and have fun.
Learning is fun, challenging each other is fun, playing well is satisfying, and winning creates satisfaction, pride and a feeling of strength and progress.
There is one small area of joy that surprises me - The joy of see a person suffering:
If you have made several terrible mistakes in a Bullet Game and finally you are completely helpless after the last devastating move. And your time is also just about to run out...
Why do many people immediately ad you then more time?
The only reason I can see is a saddistic one, to see the opponent suffer longer.
You can probably list many other reasons too.
But honestly, how often do you enjoy chess or other games, just because your opponent is suffering?
Is this normal, or the result of an aberration in why we compete with each other?
Are they effects of our daily competition that became totally normal in so many other areas of life?
Has the average value system of society changed?
Did we reach the stage that it is all about dominating?
Did for many people became cooperations boring? - Just to measure themselves against each other, to learning from each other and having fun together?
Is it more about the feeling of having power?
Let's not lose sight of the goal. To be content and give your life meaning.
If this succeeds without anyone else having to suffer, then we are contributing something to world peace.
Maybe I'm thinking too far into others adding me time in bullet games... or maybe I'm not.
Also to compete with each other is a way both help each other to try harder giving their best and learn more and have fun.
Learning is fun, challenging each other is fun, playing well is satisfying, and winning creates satisfaction, pride and a feeling of strength and progress.
There is one small area of joy that surprises me - The joy of see a person suffering:
If you have made several terrible mistakes in a Bullet Game and finally you are completely helpless after the last devastating move. And your time is also just about to run out...
Why do many people immediately ad you then more time?
The only reason I can see is a saddistic one, to see the opponent suffer longer.
You can probably list many other reasons too.
But honestly, how often do you enjoy chess or other games, just because your opponent is suffering?
Is this normal, or the result of an aberration in why we compete with each other?
Are they effects of our daily competition that became totally normal in so many other areas of life?
Has the average value system of society changed?
Did we reach the stage that it is all about dominating?
Did for many people became cooperations boring? - Just to measure themselves against each other, to learning from each other and having fun together?
Is it more about the feeling of having power?
Let's not lose sight of the goal. To be content and give your life meaning.
If this succeeds without anyone else having to suffer, then we are contributing something to world peace.
Maybe I'm thinking too far into others adding me time in bullet games... or maybe I'm not.