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Naming all your Excuses for Losing
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The worst excuses for losing a game ranked from bad to worse (#1)

  1. "I wasn't really paying attention"
  2. "After you'd lost that group there I wasn't really playing my best game anymore..."
  3. "That move you played there was't really possible anyway..."
  4. "Actually I would have won the game if I had played so and so..."
  5. "I can't see well with this light"
  6. "I was too tired to play well"
  7. "Oh, but I have a cold..."
  8. "I had too much to drink" ;)
  9. "We're not playing gomoku?"
  10. "I was curious about that invasion."
  11. "You didn't play joseki there."
  12. "I would have won if there had been/hadn't been komi."

Bad bad bad! Point made, I think :) --Skelley

Lucky This is a variant from the #1 expression above, it really happened on IGS. "I was talking on the phone while playing."

My usual 'excuse', which is also usually the truth: "I saw my opponent about to make a few points of territory and I got panicked and made a weak group which he then abused until I resigned." --adamzero

I like the excuse 'I would've won, if I had made more territory than you.' I find this a completely acceptable excuse. --Dansc

I had him crushed on the board, but not on the clock. --Scryer


I've found that *any* to drink is too much for my Go :( Strange, I don't notice any other effects after one drink except that I seemingly lose 8 stones strength. --KarlKnechtel

I find that playing strength can actually *increase* after a drink or two, for some players at least. I have a Nihonjin friend who enjoys a glass of wine or two during the meal, and during the game after dinner; his play is noticeably stronger than before the evening's drinks. Perhaps he's too tense and needs to relax into the game :-) -- Bignose


Alex Weldon: I suffer from gradual mood swings, sort of like a mild form of manic-depression, although no doubt far too mild to be considered an actual psychological disorder. Anyway, if I'm depressed, I can't play Go at all, and lose all my games. I guess I just shouldn't play if I'm not in a good mood.



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