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What is one-hundred loss challenge?

9/26/2017

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When I first taught chess, I had  a student who couldn't stand losing to his classmates. He was so afraid of losing that he could not play in classroom at all. If he didn't play, of course he would not improve. Then he could never win.

So I gave him a challenge, playing on chesskid.com against other kids. I told him: "You don't know them, so don't worry, losing was not that bad. I don't care about results, winning or losing. In fact, I want you to lose. I want you lose 100 games first. I will give you a prize when you reach the goal".

Initially he still played very few games. Every week I reminded him the 100-loss goal. Slowly he got into the habit, losing more games every week. After couple of weeks, after losing 40-some games, he began to have some wins. He could no longer continue his loss stream. Winning games shown up more and more, and he became more confident to play. In half a year, he started to play in tournaments.


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Lee Hon Sing
10/14/2017 09:33:29 pm

Dear sir, thanks for the wonderful idea, I have not thought of it. My girl is so afraid of losing that she is considering quitting chess. That would be a pity because she won trophies every year as under 8 age group, and under 10 etc. I am thinking of giving her the 100 loss challenge. Would she "purposely" lose the game and adopt a "give up" attitude from this challenge?

Thank you very much sir.

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coach andy
10/15/2017 06:34:46 pm

I can surely guarantee you that your girl will not sabotage the challenge. The effort required to purposely lose 100 games is much more than to win some games. Our goal is to let the kid relax and perform her best.

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Lee Hon Sing
10/15/2017 07:50:45 pm

Thank you very much sir. I shall try out this challenge.




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