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mjl4871
While certainly better than "Yahoo Chess", Chess.com's "Live Chess" feature has its share of annoying people and annoying habits. I offer a slightly tongue-in-cheek set of shorthand terms for some of my least favorite behaviors...
1. Spite-Clocking: When a player is beat on the board and let's his/her clock run down to zero rather than moving or resigning.
2. Dunce's Draw: When a player refuses to accept an absolutely certain draw and avoids threefold repetition only by repeating one innocuous move twice, then another, etc. (A human judge would deem this a threefold anyway, of course.)
3. Verb Gambit: Spamming the opponent's chat window with copy-pasted word vomit in a misguided attempt to make the opponent's waste his/her clock.
4. Mirror Cheat: Pulling up chess.com's computer player, setting it to play the opposite color you play in live chess, inputting your opponent's moves as your moves against the computer, then inputting the computer's moves as yours in "Live Chess."
5. Staggopath: A player who has his or her friend, a rated player, sit next to him/her at a coffee shop and feed him/her "Live Chess" moves to bulk up your rating. Name derived from "staggeringly" + "pathetic" (Yup, I saw someone doing this.)
6. Jerking the Swindle: When your clunky attempts to cheat cause you to lose on time.
7. Stupidstitious Snap: Telling a player who just beat you that he/she "got lucky" in a game where luck is a zero percent factor.
8. Abortasaurus Rex: Shaking an undesirable opponent by making no moves for a long enough time that he/she aborts the game. (Just abort it yourself?)
Feel free to reply with a few of your own!
-specter-
AndTheLittleOneSaid
Murphy's Live Chess Law:
"If something can be done to annoy you, it will be."
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