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Honor through Chess

  • snprook
  • on Tue, 7/28/2009 7:00am.

We, being a group that upholds honor in all it's forms, should try to abide by these rules in chess.

1.  We shall resign in good grace after being evidently defeated.  By not doing so we show contempt for our opponent by trusting him to make a mistake.  The only reason for continuing a game would be for beginners to watch an end game in progress and learn from it.

2.  We shall not torture an opponent after the game is won, or lost.  Such examples are pushing too many pawns to the back rank for promotion, holding a person's king captive while you kill every last piece, and using the maximum time per move to drag the game out.

 

This is all I have for now, but I'll add more if you can think of any!!!  Also, feel free to comment on what is already up.

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  • 3 years ago

    snprook

    You may always push pawns!!!  We should just be against abusing the promotion abilities of our pawns.  Also, yes to your last question.  You only have to resign when there is no hope.

  • 3 years ago

    chsskrazy

    I have been guilty of not resigning when there was what hopeless,ended up with their queen and rook,but lost anyway.

  • 3 years ago

    snprook

    Nice.

  • 3 years ago

    kingstrint

    push a pawn save a knight lol

  • 3 years ago

    snprook

    Any other thoughts?

  • 3 years ago

    snprook

    You can still push pawns, but I am meaning that we don't push all eight that we have.  After all you only need a maximum of two queens.  And yes, only when a game is totally lost are we compelled to resign.

  • 3 years ago

    edsnotofthisworld

    Yet when we play, we play to win.  In my style of play (tactics and romanticism) I would be very compromised to not play my hardest or not play the moves which I believe are best.

     

    Maybe others could give you better suggestions than I could.

  • 3 years ago

    edsnotofthisworld

    I have a question-what if your oppponent does not resign?  Are we ok to push pawns then?  And resigning when you have been evidently defeated means resigning when the game has been completely lost, right?

     

    But I like this overall-the knightly, honorable qualities in chess would make a good style of play.

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