I'd like a little more sportsmanship to be displayed

When someone has a mouse slip, how about offering them a draw?  This is how we played here 10-12 years ago, and it's still a good policy that shows class and sportsmanship. 

What do you think?

Really? Are the points between a win and a draw more precious than your integrity?

I feel that a mouse slip is like a fingerfehler -- it's part of the game, and there's no reason to offer a draw because of it.

But I don't think there's any reason to call someone crazy because you don't agree with them. Courtesy costs nothing.

              OK!  

The problem is that this would be extremely open to abuse. You could just say "oh my mouse slipped" after every bad move.

About a year or 2 ago, for about 2 weeks(because I kept forgetting to buy a new mouse),  my mouse's left button had worn out.  So here's what it would do, I would 'grab' a chess piece, go to move it, and the mouse would just 'let it go' randomly(inbetween where I started and where I was moving the piece), man, all those draws I should of had.

       cue   Dead Mouse Theater                                                                                             

One could ask the same of you.  Own your mistake.

I think that we should follow the example of the greatest players, the World Champions.

In 1935 Euwe and Alekhine were playing for the title when Alekhine's wife came up and tearfully told Alekhine that their cat was loose and lost in the tournament hall and she couldn't find him. Alekhine immediately stood up from the table and, with a gentlemanly bow, announced that he would have to resign the game. Euwe paused for a moment and declared the game to be drawn, and they both went in search of the feline.

I think we can learn from these greats.

And they found the cat!

Indeed. Sometimes can happen to you, sometimes to your opponent. And, as storm has spotted, you can't be always absolutely sure it wasn't simply a blunder.

I think we should search for exceptions to the rule, and keep posting, ad nauseum.

As usual.

Very sporting of you.

So we are supposed to accept a draw every time somebody says they had a mouse slip ..it seems to me that if that practice was adopted then every game played on the site could end in a draw ..

It is a bad idea to suggest that someone should give away hard earned points because their opponent has decided that he/she wont get a decent mouse or is too nervous to use their mouse efficiently..most mouse slips are to do with the nerves of the player who fumbled his mouse.

+1

Only this is the Internet.  There are far more cats than there are gentlemen.

Cats only offer draws for touchpad slips. They have to annihilate mice.

Probably under Ivan's chair.

Excuse me Excuse me Excuse me Excuse me Excuse me Excuse me but they found the little kitty at last behind one of the huge canvasses of those old Dutch masters, where it had taken refuge from the constant applause during the match.

There's even a picture of Alekhine looking at his cat, with a tear in his eye, and Euwe standing proudly beside him

For some reason Euwe has been cropped out but here it is:

who the hell stops a title match to find a cat? Why was a cat even in the tournament hall?