A Short Look Into Chess's Annoying Side

Brilliance is often accompanied by a touch of madness

— Aristide Briand 

Chess is captivating, yet occasionally exasperating. With its 64 squares and 32 pieces, chess is a game that lasted for centuries, and today, we get to play the game we love with millions of people on this site. But there are some things in chess that annoys us, whether if its our blunders, our opponents, or something else, there is always something that annoys us terribly. 

Here is a list of most of the things in chess that we hate, and are terrible, awful, disgusting, and everything in between. Enjoy!   

The Blunders

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take that into consideration.

— Bobby Fisher 

Blunders are terrible. We are in a position, sometimes winning, and then one innocent move can ruin it all, whether we hang a queen, allow the opponent to fork you or pin you, or even let your opponent checkmate you and you lose the game. Blunders, as terrible as they are, are many kinds of them, and we will explore the three worst ones. Enjoy!

The Missed Blunder

You can have a won position but if you don't know how to convert it, that is as good as a missed win.

When you're playing a opponent, high rated or low rated, competitively, or just for fun, we all hate losing. Once you analyze the game, it's awful to see if you played terrible, or even worse, if you could've won if you didn't spot a simple tactic. We may play lots of puzzles, but sometimes, we don't spot them, maybe because we are rushing, or we are too lazy to find one. 

The Endgame Blunder

The Technical Blunder

Wake up you stupid mouse!!!

— Hikaru Nakamara

Among the last two blunders, the last one could be the worst. The unintentional mouse slip, This common accident can happen when you moving a piece fast in bullet, and you hang your queen, or in rapid when you meant to castle but move it somewhere else. Its not limited to mice, though, it can happen on phones or tablets, or any mobile devices. Its a blunder, which can come out of nowhere... 

TIp: Enable the option for "Click Squares" here in the Mode Method, and just click the piece and the square you want to move to. 

The queen was dropped on the wrong square on move 14 changing the game.

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The Time Problems

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Time is precious when you don't have enough of it.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Time. If you play a one minute bullet game, you have to play fast, if you play a thirty minute game, then expect to have a very long game. While time adds a fun element to chess, sometimes it can get frustrating real quick! That's why we have to premove, which can lead to blunder, or if a person leaves the game, then we will have to wait! (Free elo)   

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The Quick Blunder

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In bullet, you get little time, so a overpowered feature is premoving, which lets you move before your opponent moves, letting you move for a split second, saving you lot of time. But since you play the move before your opponent does, you actually have no idea what your opponent is going to play, which can result to blunders. So if you're not careful, you can premove your queen to a square not realizing that your opponent played a move to control that square...

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The Time Lost

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If you don't make the mistake of making quick moves without thought, then you can make the mistake of thinking for too long on a blitz or a bullet game. Sure you can play accurate, and you can be in a winning position, but if the time runs out, then you lose, even if you were winning. It can get even more annoying if you nearly won, or is in a winning endgame where you are on a premoving spree, but you ultimately lost... 

Imagine going to play mate in a few moves as White. Now imagine losing the game.

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The Long Wait       

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When you play rapid, you expect to play a long chess, without any premoving or rushed moves,  with lots of thinking between moves, and something that could be an exciting game. But rapid games can be long, with opponents can leave the game with 12 minutes on the clock, and you have to wait for free elo. You look at a position, you figure out the best move, and you wait, as the minutes go down, no resigning. A waste of time.      

Think of the best move for this position. Found it? Now wait ten minutes until your opponent's time runs out.
                  

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The Opponents

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Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind

— Bobby Fisher

We play players all the time when we play online chess. One game, we play a nine year old kid in Vietnam, the next game, we play a sixty year old man in Italy. With the variety of people we can play at this site, there are some opponents that can really be annoying whether its cheaters, or toxic opponents that won't leave you alone. 

The Cheater

We seen annoying, but now, we see illegal. Cheaters, with the use of engines, they can beat anyone, and they are more common then you think. Even though chess.com may refund your points, you still, were destroyed unfairly...  Shh, go use this Engine.

In July 2023, 70,760 accounts closed for fair play, and 0.2% of chess.com players are cheaters.

GothamChess in Anime???

The Toxic Opponent

We covered blunders in our first section of the blog, and of course we hate blundering, but it brings a whole new level of annoying, when the player lets you know about your mistake. "Ur so trash" they say, even though you mouseslip your queen in the opening, or "Its like taking candy from a baby" when you were in a winning position, and then they find a winning fork, taking your rook. They can say anything, but of course it does not mean anything...

Note: This is fake, Credit to DaProGamer011

The Troll

Being a troll is not illegal like cheating, or offensive like being toxic, but they can still be as annoying. Sometimes, there are harmless trolls who plays the dumbest openings in existence, such as the Grob or, while some go as far as promoting their pawns to knights after they took all your pieces. Fortunately, there is always the option to resign, so you don't have to suffer through any crazy endgames, but trolls will always be there, in every corner of the internet...