Hi CoT,

This is an angry statement about a match I played today which was blatantly mine!

This opponent at one point stopped the clock and walked off which in itself forfeited the game but no!

He then started debating about whos move it was and I pointed to the piece that moved last and accidentally dropped my pen!

He declared that it was a draw because "we couldn't remember the position!" You are meant to replay the match to the point at which play was disrupted by the scoresheet! I was a queen up!!!!

This is the game!

 

 At the point I dropped my pen he was a queen down so out of pure decency he should have resigned because I couldn't do anything but win!

 

I am so annoyed now!!!!!

He sounds like a complete futoop (don't try to look it up). Wasn't there a tournament director to settle the issue?

Lol.

If it's a league match your team captain is in loco tournament director, you appeal to him/her and the two team captains try to resolve it.  Failin gthat your team can put an appeal into whatever union are running the leagues.  If I understand it right you knocked some pieces over and you score sheet wasn't up to date so he claimed you couldn't set the game up properly again?  Were their witnesses to the play/position?

p.s. if he claimed a draw in that situation he deserves to be pitied more than hated as my Mum used to say, but that's Yorkshire folk, determined not to lose

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Actually my score sheet was completely up to date and so was his! I played through the game afterwards!He just said he couldn't remember the position!

Sorry about the greeting! I posted this topic in my group as well!

Sorry Don, one time in a USCF tournament here in Chicago, a friend of mine was threatened with a knife if he didn't resign, the tournament director informed him that this was unsportsmanlike behhavior... 

Sounds like a sore loser, but I'm not one to make judgement from just one side of the story :)

Jeez - unfortunately chess is a game that both encourages frustration at losing, and attracts the kind of people (such as your opponent) who react really badly to this frustration.

You can take solace in the fact that this guy lost the game, and that his reaction indicates that he is a loser, more generally. How's that for the moral high ground?

that was bogus!

It is better to  be considered a gentleman than winning a game.

This sounds like something that either should have been properly resolved at the tournament or should be appealed. Something just doesn't seem right (or fair).

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Sounds made up to me. You don't need to remember the position if you have two scoresheets the same.

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 The match was rated sure enough! My rating would have jumped so high for that win! (Comparable to mine now!)

The rules I assume are just normal tournament rules such as you cannot take a move back, once let go u have made your move and so on!

If there are any major rules for tournaments please tell me as I am inexperienced!