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Promoting pawns when you are ahead in material...Rude?


  • 13 months ago · Quote · #101

    DKof

    JoseO wrote: . .  I look at that is rubbing it in against another player.

    "Rub it in - Rub it in - Let the tingle begin . . . "

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #102

    bguigz

    Winning... Rude?

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #103

    rickdaniels52

    this can be stopped easily by resigning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #104

    Wilbert_78

    Reb wrote:
    ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
    Reb, in the unspoken poker game of chess etiquette then, multiple under promotion is like "raise!"

    I agree ..... maybe chess needs a doubling cube like backgammon has in order to make some people resign when they should OR maybe lose twice the rating points when you " double" ?  

    Actually... Fritz told me the other day he wanted to double... including a pop-up window... Needless to say, it didn't end very well for me Cry

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #105

    pellik

    It's only rude if you don't allow your opponent to promote his pawns as well.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #106

    FirebrandX

    So I got that opponent that refuses to resign today. I took the opportunity to test my skills in avoiding stalemate by promoting every pawn I had left with only ten seconds remaining on my clock. It was actually quite the fun little exercise!



  • 13 months ago · Quote · #107

    finalunpurez

    @FirebrandX nice game!

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #108

    BorgQueen

    ROFL FireBrandX ^_^

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #109

    nameno1had

    I actually think I have to take my hat off to you Firebrand. You managed all of that and didn't accidentally draw. I have no clue why your opponent wouldn't resign, other than maybe to bother you. I guess I might have gotten some bishops and knights too, to practice my mating net skills on a king with no protection.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #110

    Metastable

    A rather amusing game in a similar vein was posted a few months ago to start the thread below - Firebrand's game brought it to mind:

    http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/how-to-know-when-to-resign

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #111

    Tactickle

    lol@--a I saw a posted game with 5 knights givng checkmate!

    seriously, if someone is getting offended that you are over-promoting to mate them then they should have resigned 5 moves ago.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #112

    FirebrandX

    Shadowknight911 wrote:

    at a scholastic state championship event last year, one of my friends, a 3rd grader rated about 1800 at the time, played a first round game against a 900 player and decided to promote all his remaining pawns.  5 queens plus a rook against the king.  A tournament director admonished him afterwards for not mating his opponent while it was simply 1 queen and rook. 

    Had I been there, I'd have admonished that tournament director for telling a kid how he should play his pieces. That's none of his f---ing business. Nowhere in the USCF rules book for TDs does it say they can reprimand chess moves.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #113

    Immoney5252

    Its more rude to continue playing in an inevitable lost position ....so promote and make them pay

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #114

    lordhypnoz

    Once my opponent didn't resign and started fishing for a stalemate ... he quickly changed his mind when I started setting up a pawn mate instead :)

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #115

    finalunpurez

    some people needs to know when to give up.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #116

    lordhypnoz

    chrisr2212 wrote:

    you people don't know the meaning of the word "manners", or how to respect a beginner

    It seems you are too butthurt from being humiliated in this fashion ...

    Did you play against Firebrand by any chance? :D

     

    And by the way, noone does this to a beginner ... You can easily tell the difference between a beginner and a person who is counting on your stupidity to hustle the half point that he does not deserve...

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #117

    yourChess

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  • 13 months ago · Quote · #118

    chessblood

    This a game where my opponent could have easily won, but decided to promote a pawn.

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #119

    FirebrandX

    chessblood wrote:

    This a game where my opponent could have easily won, but decided to promote a pawn.

    No, it's a game where he blundered the win on the last move with Qa1

  • 13 months ago · Quote · #120

    Ocky

    Follows the rules, hence cannot be rude.


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