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IMO the worst thing in chess is not having any good moves, not having the prospect of any good moves and your position slowly getting worse and worse until you lose.
AKA every game against someone much better than you
abr-
zugzwang is worse - where you are in a place where you have to move but can only put yourself in a weaker position for doing so.
the thing I find the worst. and this is about online rather than in real life. is working through what you are going to do in your next move, based on what you think they will do, realising some peril you are flirting with as part of that move. then by the time you come back to the board completely forget about that peril. and fucking up your original move in the process.
jonny
Not having offered that draw doesnt necessarily result in a win of course
3 worse things about chess
Queen exchange
Being forked
Being forked 3 ways