It's funny how one denies rules and others try to convice that it's ok to follow them. How many topics like that?
What do you feel about players that do perpetual checks when they are losing?
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What's all the complaining about? Although it's very annoying, perpetual check is still a part of the game; therefore, anyone can do it if possible. Even if you're up a few pieces, but you can't prevent perpetual check, you haven't "won". You can call it a "win", but you're just duluding yourself.
.... Perpetual checks might not be a draw (as most people here think)....... But infinite check definitely is.....
Hold on.... Don't they actually mean the same thing... ?
What about perpetual checks when they are winning?
This is the second funniest thread I've seen on here. Right behind the "i cant eat solders" thread a while back.
Thats resourcefulness for you
after all if you are loosing then find this perpetual check opportunity you woul do the same
I always love seeing incompetant chess players philosophize about the game... quite entertaining.
MaryandJuana wrote:
This is the game. I should have just taken his pawn with my pawn instead of letting it advance to 7th rank. He wouldn't have been able to take it with his queen because I would have checkmated him. I was not into just running around the entire board getting checked so I basically just walked into the loss plus I was down on time by one minute and if he just kept checking me I would have eventually lost on time.
Its not even perpetual Check, it's a solid checkmate.
I am going to do that in one of my games if I can.
Personally I think it's bad sportsmanship. It should be against the etiquette of the game warranting disqualification. Okay soccer / football... one team is three goals down, the goal keeper and defender resort to passing the ball back and forth and the rules say this could terminate the game with a technical 'draw'.
Err... no. Okay the analogy isn't identical, but it is similar enough to make the point. Oh but I hear some say it's up to the other team to prevent this from happening... What I have learned playing online chess is the number of petty idiots and sore losers who disconnect or let the clock roll when being beaten, and it's my guess that it's that type of person who made this sort of thing an accepted part of the game.
In response to the original posted question: the person who performs a perpetual check is taking advantage of carelessness on the part of their opponent, who had an advantageous game, but let their guard down. I have been on both sides of this situation. When I performed the perpetual check from an inferior position, I felt that I had taken advantage of the complacency of my opponent. When an opponent over whom I had a winning position made a perpetual check against me, I realized I had been the complacent one. Perpetual check is only one of the many pitfalls to be avoided when endeavoring to win a "won" game.
*bets that finalDAT has low ratings*
*checks* yep.
Yeah, that's really annoying when your opponent outsmarts you.
He should have been a "good sport" and resigned rather than embarrass you.
cdowis75 wrote:
Yeah, that's really annoying when your opponent outsmarts you.
He should have been a "good sport" and resigned rather than embarrass you.
+1
Scottrf wrote:
*bets that finalDAT has low ratings*
*checks* yep.
And is butthurt about an opponent drawing against him this way.
*check* yep.
As someone whose main playing hsitory is a mere several months old, nice to see I'm being condescended to by more learned creatures who think they've achieved that crucial higher ground in this apparent caste system. If I'd have known some stuck-up bearded prig was going to put me in my place then perhaps I'd have known my place from the get-go.
Glad we have that settled.
it simply isn't a lost game then, is it ?