[conanbatt]

Hm, i dont think this is it.

To play go well you need balance. It requires intense emotional training. Any feeling you have during a game must be reigned in immediately because it will cloud your judgemnet and it does so in a way you cant understand.

Think of Go as a conversation. Lets stay you are having a civil conversation about a topic with someone, and the other person throws an insult in the middle. Will your next messages look the same as the ones before? Of course not, because you will be rattled, or offended, or something, and thus the tone and content of your messages will change immediately.

If that happens to you in Go, you are on a path of self destruction.

So losing a game to an amateur could be something in your mind, as an insult, that just modifies you a bit, even just temporary. But it does, so you feel contaminated.

[platz]

As a relatively new player I do find losses extremely upsetting very often, unless I've only lost by a few points against someone at the same level as me; I guess I have some learning to do :)

[baby]

Not really, I've seen amateur 1-2 Dan insulting the other player before leaving a game (online), or just trolling to piss off the other player. People get really childish in Go because it's hard to accept defeat in this game.