hey chess.com i made a mouse slip i was completely winning i dirty flagged though in a 3 minute blitz game i was up a knight and 2 pawns and i mouseliped and they took my queen for a pawn i won the game though
Mouse Slip - how to react?
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Mar 21, 2024
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#163
A few weeks ago, I mouse slipped in this position. Worse than the mouse slip is that my opponent failed to find the mate in three and drove my king to the a-file before finding mate. I intended Rxg1, but instead played Rg2+.
White to move
slammoco wrote:
I guess I'm just different, starting with who the frick cares if it's an old thread? why does that ever bother people - is it THAT important that you tell everyone that you were "there first"? Were you born first and so why do I care?
There are at least 20 reasons why my mouse might slip. Sometimes it happens right when I'm in a far superior position. I don't make excuses BUT I think it's very important to let my opponent have the information in order to do what they think is right. In almost every case the opponent thinks it right to just ignore it. I have no problem with that. However, there are a great many games when I'd really like to know what happened. If I'm getting destroyed and my opponent does exactly what someone here described: moved the rook to a spot one square short when it's obvious they meant to take a piece ... no way to I continue. I'll draw or just resign if they don't say anything.
Again, so many ways a mouse slip can occur that is completely unrelated to touch move, etiquette, or any of the other "gentlemanly rules" that don't involve electronic equipment.
hey uh don't resign when they mouse slip it's only detrimental to you if they don't say nothing so be it
Mar 21, 2024
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#165
The best reaction is obviously to trash the keyboard, rage quit and watch funny cat videos instead. Try it. It works every time.
Mar 21, 2024
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#167
Eigenartigkeit wrote:
The best reaction is obviously to trash the keyboard, rage quit and watch funny cat videos instead. Try it. It works every time.
I buy keyboards in bulk for this very reason.
Mar 21, 2024
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#168
i just ask my opponent for draw or smth and if they mouseslip in an equal position i just draw
I usually just resign.
Mar 22, 2024
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#170
Take his Queen.
Chess is not intended as a test of manual dexterity and coordination.
May 4, 2024
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#173
Sometimes I mouseslip and the mouseslip was actually better than what I had in mind... accidental brilliance sometimes lol
May 26, 2024
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#174
I feel like I am almost obligated*** to tell my opponent about my mouse-slips during the game or straight after (via the chess.com email/message system).
Because if I don't, I get too many messages that are like "...wtf, you were winning, how did you mess that up...".
***: Except in a tournament, as my opponent usually doesn't have time to query me, before the next round (at least, IMO).
Note: I have a condition that causes me to have shaky hands / spasms (especially when too anxious or excited).
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A bit off topic to this thread, but the reason I am here is because I searched, "svidler's mouse slip" , as I had never heard of that opening^^^ before (I am fairly easily distracted, so I kept scrolling down the search results, and found this thread).
^^^: Either myself, or my opponent did this during a recent game.
i moused slipped in a winning position
Jun 9, 2024
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#176
Attempting to play the Dutch a week or two ago, I mouse slipped and played 1…f6. To make the best of it, I then played 2…Kf7 and worked my king around to d8 via the sixth rank after transferring the queen to e8.
I was losing until my opponent walked into a mate in one. I could hear him cursing although half a world away.
Hardboiledeggs wrote:
My question to the greater chess community is, what is the proper etiquette if your opponent has a "mouse slip". I recently played a game where my opponent made a bad move and claimed he had a mouse slip. I would have let it pass but he accused me of taking advantage of him. I considered his behavior petty and ungentlemanly but it begged a bigger question. What is the proper thing to do? There must be a rule in regular chess if a player drops his piece, etc.
Yours truely, Hardboiledeggs
At any level, if you touch one of your own pieces, you must move it. I believe the same applies to a mouse slip. If the guy's mouse slips, it's his own bad coordination that is to blame. My mouse is pretty bad itself, so don't think I'm a blame everybody but myself kinda guy.
If I had a mouse slip, don't be surprised if y'all see a PC go flying out the window of a 9 story building.
if someone says in chat " fckk mouse slip sry " i just send the green sick face emote lol .
My question to the greater chess community is, what is the proper etiquette if your opponent has a "mouse slip". I recently played a game where my opponent made a bad move and claimed he had a mouse slip. I would have let it pass but he accused me of taking advantage of him. I considered his behavior petty and ungentlemanly but it begged a bigger question. What is the proper thing to do? There must be a rule in regular chess if a player drops his piece, etc.
Yours truely, Hardboiledeggs
There's no "proper etiquette". Do what you want. I resign if the mouse slip costs me significantly and play on if it doesn't cost me. I recently had a mouse slip in a game that I chose to play on in and won.