It’s called modesty !! You must cause their ” messing up ” by your play !!

I feel that way as well. Hoping to get better too.

Yes, that happens to me as well. There are 3 types of wins in chess (at least for me): attacking wins, opponent blunders and slow-playing. Of course, there is still the ‘opponent disconnects and loses on time’ win. The attacking wins feel great like you’ve actually accomplished something; the ones where your opponent blunders make me feel slightly guilty, although it is fair that I won. However, the slow-playing ones where you improve your position slowly and trade everything into an endgame also feel great.

I think trying to fight back when you are losing and at least hoping for a draw is key. Trade your opponent’s attacking and powerful pieces for your passive and less powerful pieces. Also, a draw can be claimed if you flagged but your opponent has ‘insufficient checkmating material’ (only pieces left which can’t force a checkmate, which includes pawns as they can promote).

Hope this helps!

@Heart https://youtube.com/shorts/oWgYIX9JEwo?si=cDKf9IzF2nyFSBEP watch this video (it can help)

One of the people that you beat is on some other website right now talking about how they got destroyed by you 🙂 It’s all relative.

Perfect chess should end in a draw. So all wins by anyone is due to someone’s mistakes! That being said, some people are better at putting you in a position that’s hard to defend and leads to more mistakes.