Some players clearly lack of fair-play spirit, have no sportmanship.
For instance:
- betraying the opp in the 1st stage FFA for any reason (finishing then 3rd in most cases, but they don't care),
- targeting some particular player, specifically the opp', simply because he is much higher rated, in order to make him finish 4th on purpose and to have the Schadenfreude to see him losing 30, 40 points,
- resigning on purpose just before someone eats your Q and gets 9 pts that he deserved,
- resigning on purpose just before the certain mate, in order to create thus a zombie king and to prevent the winning player from having 20 points that he deserved and quite often from winning the game he was clearly winning,
- eating as much pieces of someone as possible with no strategic advantage (once someone realises he won't win), just in order to make him lose (by revenge),
- failing to take an obvious mate in 1, making the opp to lose his Q, on purpose,
- throwing on purpose in the 2nd stage FFA to some other player, playing for 2nd and wanting another specific player to be 3rd (kingmaking),
- resigning on purpose in order to avoid for the CLEARLY winning player to win, seeing that he needs just 1 or 2 points to win (another case of kingmaking: one makes on purpose some player win rather than some other who clearly deserved the victory taking into account the game and his moves, etc.).
I haven't played a lot of games where all the players were above 2500-2600, so cannot say, but in the 2200-2500 area such behaviours are unfortunately common. I think it's very damageable for our nice hobby.
I'm currently 2,4 k elo to play that. I need to deal with them, but I have to accept. It's life
Some players clearly lack of fair-play spirit, have no sportmanship.
For instance:
- betraying the opp in the 1st stage FFA for any reason (finishing then 3rd in most cases, but they don't care),
- targeting some particular player, specifically the opp', simply because he is much higher rated, in order to make him finish 4th on purpose and to have the Schadenfreude to see him losing 30, 40 points,
- resigning on purpose just before someone eats your Q and gets 9 pts that he deserved,
- resigning on purpose just before the certain mate, in order to create thus a zombie king and to prevent the winning player from having 20 points that he deserved and quite often from winning the game he was clearly winning,
- eating as much pieces of someone as possible with no strategic advantage (once someone realises he won't win), just in order to make him lose (by revenge),
- failing to take an obvious mate in 1, making the opp to lose his Q, on purpose,
- throwing on purpose in the 2nd stage FFA to some other player, playing for 2nd and wanting another specific player to be 3rd (kingmaking),
- resigning on purpose in order to avoid for the CLEARLY winning player to win, seeing that he needs just 1 or 2 points to win (another case of kingmaking: one makes on purpose some player win rather than some other who clearly deserved the victory taking into account the game and his moves, etc.).
I haven't played a lot of games where all the players were above 2500-2600, so cannot say, but in the 2200-2500 area such behaviours are unfortunately common. I think it's very damageable for our nice hobby.
I'm currently 2,4 k elo to play that. I need to deal with them, but I have to accept. It's life