Calling check

 I was playing a game with my dad today, i called check when it turned out to be a checkmate. he claims it was a draw because i did not say checkmate but check instead. can someone clarify for me?

Your dad is a cheater

Don't tell mom.

haha, at a tounament it would be checkmate still. but tell ur dad good try :)

LOL

send your dad to a chess coach before you join

You don't have to call anything - in tournament chess it can even be viewed as illegally disturbing your opponent if you call check very often, and when it's mate - it's mate :)

There's even a saying "give every check, it could be mate" - of course this is wrong in the sense of playing the best move, but correct in the sense that a mate is still a mate even if the winner has not seen it himself.

Club players and tournament players don't call check or checkmate (unless they're being cocky).

Checkmate is checkmate regardless of what you say or don't say.

lol, thanks all, ill tell my dad hes a lousy cheater =P

I love when people get all Uno about chess.

Sometimes when the opponent makes an ilegal move and I say "you can't do this, you are in check!" some say "so, why didn't you say check before?"

WTF, I am not your king's baby sitter!

to say (or to hear) check every time is unnecessary, by the rules, and also can be very annoying in some situations.

orangehonda wrote:Checkmate is checkmate regardless of what you say or don't say.

 What about if you say "I resign" after checkmate or at least "let's draw"???

I know this is nonsense, but if this happens (let's say in an very low rating OTB tournament), will the arbiter interfere?

Because, after all, the checkmate come first, so what ever the players agree after that should not count, right?

If some guy asked for a draw after I checkmated him, my fist would interfere with his face. But I suppose if both players were unaware that the game was checkmate, then unless the arbiter caught the error, whatever they agreed to would be recorded as the official result.

Well, that's true.  It's possible we've all heard the stories about scholastic chess and their sometimes wacky endings.  Like agreeing they lost in a stalemate, or agreeing it's a draw when it's checkmate.  But if both players agree and turn in the sheets... kind of like when they make illegal moves and unless their opponent objects you can't mention anything.

Tell your Dad, that after he dies, this is the story you're going to tell the grandkids about him.

Don't be so hard on your dad !  He simply doesnt know all the rules of chess but may think he does. There are MANY players here who fit that description ! 

Didn't everybody else's dad try and win games on cheap technicalities?

Nah, when I was in my single-digits and 10s, I thought that was the rule...

"My house...my rules...go stand in the corner."

 first off, i didn't say anything so how am i ungrateful

second, i think he would laugh at that