The Gift of Giving - Trophies!

If you find yourself engaged in a stimulating game of Chess, regardless of the outcome, congratulate your opponent with a gift, a trophy that best exemplifies their most predominantly strategic attribute!

encourage your opponents; boost the overall enjoyment that is the game of Chess.

i always do that when i play but they are not a lot of players that have good sportmanship

It makes me happy to know that you give Chess.com trophies to your opponents after your matches; though, it saddens me to know that you've been hard-pressed to find good sportsmanship within your opponents.

Challenge me to a duel, a gentleman's game of wit and I will offer you proper sportsmanship.

yea I get cursed out if I win a game and they say the most out of pocket things I have ever heard or just leave the game open and leave so the time runs for 10 minutes.

it seems like there is nothing but participation trophies in chess...  hmmmmmm...

How do you give a trophy?

https://support.chess.com/article/680-what-are-game-and-community-awards-how-do-i-give-one

Thanks, @Martin_Stahl, that looks like a fun thing to do. Someone sent me one of those once, or I wouldn't even have known they existed!

Can we please have trophies for trash talking purposes on chess.com.  Not mean spirited or hurtful but playful banter type of emoji & trophies.  

For example:  a Lollipop to tell our opponents that we think that they suck if they disconnect games on purpose when it is obvious that they are going to lose but want us to sit there and watch their time run out.  

I got a cheer from someone and I'm trying to send one back. The instructions seem to be out of date. I click on the name and I get someone with one of those fancy blogger backgrounds that make the person's profile almost impossible to read. Nowhere can I find Give Trophy or More to click on. Yes, this is on the website. (The app doesn't show cheers). I can't search for the person's name because it has only 4 letters, and since so many people have joined, 4-letter searches don't work any more. (I've had this problem searching for someone else I know., too.)

OK, I got it to work. I had to use the extended member search on the website, and it only worked because I knew what country he is from.