Cool! I've had players say things like that on a few occasions! It's kind of neat

I'm particularly fond of the betting money part. As if we were otb.

Was there a context for this, or was that the start of the dialogue?

But really now ... deep down inside ... don't we ALL want to be in his league? For the easy money :).

Him:"Watching TV- You aren't in my league but you lucked out"

Me:"What?  Sorry, I was distracted waiting here in the ER."

The conversation above is the beginning and the end of the conversation.

I can only hope that I too will someday be in his league. :-p

Ha! I should have sharpened my tongue a bit for him.

The game was no spectacular show of skill on my part though.

I can't find the game in your archives. Did you play this game on another site?

I love it when an opponent gets mad. It just makes beating them so much more fun. Once, I queened 5 pawns, just to punk my abusive opponent out. It was hard to do without stalemating him.

When I lose, I'm usually annoyed at myself.  It almost always means I blundered or missed something that I should have seen.

I love it when an opponent gets mad. It just makes beating them so much more fun. Once, I queened 5 pawns, just to punk my abusive opponent out. It was hard to do without stalemating him.

I used to play with several friends, and one of the guys in that group never wanted to resign, no matter the position.  He changed his mind after one of the other guys did the "I'll just take your pieces and slowly queen all my pawns"thing.

The one who never wanted to resign got mad, and everyone laughed at him.  The guy who was winning and queening told him "If you aren't going to resign in clearly lost positions, then I'm going to do this to you every time I win.  You can stop it easily - just resign when it's clear that you will lose.  I can do this up until the 50 move rule forces me to mate, and by queening one pawn at a time, I can restart the 50 move count every time I move a pawn."

I still laugh at him about that.  But he resigns now when he gets in hopeless positions.

My favorite game like that was in a 1 minute game when I made a sort of questionable gambit but ended up getting checkmate. After the game was over my opponent's comment was, "I thought this was chess, not some crap."

"I used to play with several friends, and one of the guys in that group never wanted to resign, no matter the position.  He changed his mind after one of the other guys did the "I'll just take your pieces and slowly queen all my pawns"thing.

The one who never wanted to resign got mad, and everyone laughed at him.  The guy who was winning and queening told him "If you aren't going to resign in clearly lost positions, then I'm going to do this to you every time I win.  You can stop it easily - just resign when it's clear that you will lose.  I can do this up until the 50 move rule forces me to mate, and by queening one pawn at a time, I can restart the 50 move count every time I move a pawn."

Yes I agree, on one hand the person who refuse to resign in a lost game is pretty silly (he could be just learning about the game) but on the other hand queening all his pawns just show me that person doesn't know how to checkmate him earler as possile and dragging this game out alot longer than necessarily I also find this sill too. 

Neither of these were new players.  They would probably rate around 1500 at the time, higher now.

The winner wasn't wasn't queening pawns because he didn't know how to checkmate.  Heck, he was being careful of stalemate and the 50 move rule.

He was teaching the guy who refused to resign a lesson.  He was rubbing his face in it, dragging it out, and laughing at him.  Humilation.  And it could end at any time - by resigning.  He didn't want to resign, so he had to put up with an intentionally long and drawn out end game. (And he was threatened that it would happen every time they played and he was losing, though it never went to that.)

You can argue that the guy who was winning was drawing the game out longer than necessary, and I'd agree.  But so was the losing player, who was going to lose regardless and could resign at any time.  And in the long run, it helped, because the guy who wouldn't ever resign started resigning when he was clearly going to lose, which let our group play more games overall, since we didn't have to wait on him to finish losing his games like we had done on many occassions.

The player who queened a bunch of pawns and drug it out as long as possible only did it once, compared to many times the other player refused to resign. 

First lesson in chess

Learn to lose with dignity

Because it will happen a lot

I once watched a master defeat a weaker in player at blitz.  The weaker player got upset and dared him to play for cash.  The master, who had been Florida state champion a host of times, just replied coldly, "I wouldn't want to take your money."  I thought that was a good response.

You can:

1. disable chat

2. copy and paste the conversation into an abuse report

3. answer tit-for-tat

4. ...

i think you should out "Him" so we can all challenge him to experience his friendly banter

 Yes, a little peer pressure can go a long way.

Another good one:

Yeah, TV reception is bad up here in the K2 base camp - I was suprised to get the 1-bar cell signal for the iPhone app.