I'm teaching daughter to play chess
and she's going through the inevitable phase of getting incredibly irritated by losing most of the time.

Please offer up your best motivational lines that I can use to encourage her.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:01, 11 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Guess?
Man.......
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 5 May 2009, 9:03, Reply)

My dad never let me win at chess
He just used to say when you eventually beat me I'll buy you an ice cream.

I had to wait until I was 21 until I did *cries*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:03, Reply)

Hah shit
I said almost the same thing. Time to revise that policy.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:11, Reply)

How about the classics...
It's not the winning but the taking part that counts honey... One of us has to lose... You can't always be good at everything... If at first you don't succeed, try and try again...

And then run as your daughter fills the room up with either tears or screams.
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:16, Reply)

Seriously
Tell her it's good she lost because only nasty, mean, sneaky people win at chess. She'll believe that ; )
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 5 May 2009, 9:21, Reply)

Tell her: 'Kites rise against the wind not with them'

And then buy her a kite because they are more fun than chess. Plus no one loses so kite flying represents real life more accurately...
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:24, Reply)

Come on, dear
When you beat me you can have a car.

That should do it.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:26, Reply)

Or...
I was going to say you could lose. As in play the game aiming not to win. Then increase the difficulty as she starts getting the hang of it and shafting you.

I successfully used the above technique to teach a 9 yr old girl backgammon. The little cow then beat me comprehensively 5 times in a row (when I was actually trying to win!) until I refused to play her any more.

How old is your daughter?
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:29, Reply)

She's twelve
I thought about that, but it's difficult. I mean, how am I supposed to NOT fuck the queen hard in the arse with my bishop?

OK, I get your point. Perhaps I'm trying too hard to teach her how to play and not letting her enjoy playing.

I can be such a retard sometimes.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 May 2009, 9:33, Reply)

No3l
that queen and bishop line sounds so so wrong.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 5 May 2009, 11:49, Reply)

Is that better?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 5 May 2009, 13:38, Reply)