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Really Bad Sportsmanship in Real Tournaments
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The worst I have ever experienced was this one tournament I played in as a kid. My opponent would make many annoying noises and would touch almost all of his pieces before making a move. Since this was a real tournament and that was illegal, I was going to call over an adult. In the end, I didn't because I was beating him so bad! Lesson learned: if your opponent isn't following the rules of the tournament, call someone over to give them a warning!
Ladya79 wrote:
Irontiger,
"Quel jouer gauche!" (Did I even say that right?) What I meant was, "What a classless player!" In my opinion, he should have been reprimanded by the TD at least, or removed from the tournament at most. Even most really young players, like under ten, know not to do that kind of crap!
If you are talking about the guy I met, I did not bother mentioning it to the TD. Ok, he is a jerk, but that's not a terrible thing either. Compare with the other posts...
I tend to consider that anything that is not done during play is not a terrible thing. For example if you show an opening trap to other players in the hope that one will try it on you and you will easily refute it, it is certainly very mean, but it's not unsportsmanlike either.
As for your French... Nice try, but you still have some work to do. 
You wrote jouer ("play") for joueur ("player"), but worse, gauche means "left" (as in "left hand") or sometimes (not of common use) "awkward". If you want something like "classless", the closest adjective I can think of is impoli ("unpolite"), otherwise you have to use another construction, for instance Quel joueur sans classe ! (litteraly "What a player without class !") or sans panache ("panache" does exist in English, doesn't it ?).
Jun 19, 2013
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#45
Savage wrote:
Some years ago I was playing black against a guy rated about 300 points higher than me. It was a Sicilian, Maroczy bind type of position. For a while it was about even, then I made an inaccurate move and it all started going rapidly downhill. Things were getting desperate - the guy was only a few moves away from promoting a pawn so I did the only thing I could do - sacrificed an exchange to buy some time and began throwing everything I had in the general direction of his king hoping for a miracle. Finally, when he was one move away from promoting he blundered and allowed a simple mate-in-3. At this point he let out a hideous shriek and swiped the pieces off the board with such force that a guy playing on a nearby table got hit in the head. He then sprinted out of the playing hall. That's one game I'll always remember
That is too funny... good one :)
"Panache" does exist in English, although in this age of texting and tweeting, hardly anyone uses it except for writers. Now that I've made Camus and Flaubert cry, I think I'll stick to the chessboard. 
These are some French words I know for sure:
"gagner" - what I want to do in my game against you
"perdre" - what I really don't want to do in my game against you
"remis" - If I even get one of these against you, I'll have played one of the best games of my career here on chess.com!
sorry to put sel into an open wound but I don't know what you mean with the last one.
Did you mean trophie or victory or rematch?
thomas_loiselle wrote:
sorry to put sel into an open wound but I don't know what you mean with the last one.
Did you mean trophie or victory or rematch?
remis means "draw", doesn't it?
As far as I know, it does. I know it's German for "draw".
Oh okay. In French we way: "match nul" or simply "nul"
I see. :) Trust me, if I even earn a "nul" against Irontiger in our game, I will have achieved a major feat. I've never drawn against anyone of his level, let alone won. As for more bad sportsmanship in tournaments, I once saw a video on YouTube where Cheparinov wouldn't shake Nigel Short's hand. Short kept offering it to him, and Cheparinov kept refusing. Hilarious! XD
Jun 21, 2013
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#52
Ladya79 wrote:
As for more bad sportsmanship in tournaments, I once saw a video on YouTube where Cheparinov wouldn't shake Nigel Short's hand. Short kept offering it to him, and Cheparinov kept refusing. Hilarious! XD
I think the bad sportsmanship is on Nigel Short's part in that incident. Ivan Cheparinov had known of a Nigel Short interview where Short insulted him and the Bulgarian chess team. After Cheparinov refused to shake his hand, Short went to the tournament officials to make them enforce a some silly rule about how your game can be forfeited for refusing a handshake.
(LOL) Point taken. Still, it was a laugh riot to watch. I mean, here are these two GM's having a handshake tiff in an actual tournament. XD
Likhit1 wrote:
A guy once accused me of offering draws repeatedly even though i offered him a draw only once.He called the arbiter but fortunately,the arbiter knew me pretty well and believed me when i told him that i only offered a draw once.the game continued and i won,my opponent just left in anger.
I often play young kids who offer draws when they are clearly losing (i.e., down one or more pieces with no counterplay). I think that this is a tactic that some coaches teach these kids on the theory that sometimes the other player will accept because they don't know that they are winning. Once a kid (probably about 10 years old) kept offering a draw on every move. At first, I just politely declined and made my move. However, after about the 10th draw offer, I got frustrated and said: "Look, I am winning and am not going to agree to a draw. I will accept your resignation but not a draw. So please stop asking. It's getting annoying." He stopped for a while, and then just before I checkmated him, he pleaded: "Please let me have a draw. I don't want to lose." I was going to berate him again, but saw that he was looking very sad. So I told him: "You played a good game. Maybe you'll win next time." Then I checkmated him.
Jun 21, 2013
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trysts wrote:
Ladya79 wrote:
As for more bad sportsmanship in tournaments, I once saw a video on YouTube where Cheparinov wouldn't shake Nigel Short's hand. Short kept offering it to him, and Cheparinov kept refusing. Hilarious! XD
I think the bad sportsmanship is on Nigel Short's part in that incident. Ivan Cheparinov had known of a Nigel Short interview where Short insulted him and the Bulgarian chess team. After Cheparinov refused to shake his hand, Short went to the tournament officials to make them enforce a some silly rule about how your game can be forfeited for refusing a handshake.
There's a full account of the incident here: http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4004402
It seems that Short was genuinely upset by this incident. After initially awarding the game to Short, they ruled there should be a rematch on the rest day, subject to Cheparinov issuing an apology, which he did.
Short won.
After much googling, I have tracked down what it was that Short said to prompt Cheparinov to refuse the handshake - if anyone is interested, it's here:
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/1077079/report-short-take-veselin-topalov-could-have-been-cheating
Jun 21, 2013
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#56
I once played an International Master who was famous for his terrible sportsmanship. He tended to be nice enough to me though. We had played only once before, and he beat my French Defense.
This time, I was white. I misplayed the opening and got into a passive but tenable position. I proceeded to hold the position for the next 40 moves while my opponent got more and more agitated. He started making ridiculous moves and eventually trapped his own rook and lost the game.
After the end of the game, he loudly proclaimed that I did not know how to play chess, that nobody would play for a draw as white the way I did, and that I did not deserve to win a single game of chess ever.
He then stomped off across the stage in his cowboy boots (yes, others wore cowboy boots, but none made the racket he did.) He didn't show up for the next round.
At some stage at my club we started playing with increment. Time controls are now 1:15 hours plus additional 15 minutes after 40 moves, with an increment of 30 seconds with each completed move. I hate that because I am a blitz player. I like to be able to put my opponents under time pressure.
Anyway, at some stage in our summer competition, I was way behind the leaders, and so was the opponent I had to play that night. Our match was, as they say in The Netherlands, 'for bacon and beans'. It didn't matter at all. My opponent of that night has around 1400 rating. I have about 1800. To motivate myself, I set myself the challenge of having never less than my original 1:15 hours of time. So I had to move within 30 seconds, unless I had saved some time by moving even faster, because in that case I could use the time I saved.
I managed to win this game after a hard fought midgame where I was slightly worse, but improving my position slowly and finding a combination to win a piece for a pawn going into the endgame.
Do you guys think this is bad sportmanship?
It might be pretty annoying for my opponent if I move very fast all the time, but on the other hand if I calculate more, I'll probably play better and he might have less of a chance to acchieve a good result. I really wanted to give my challenge a shot, so I chose a match where I thought it'd be okay for (irrelevant match), but the fact that I even tried it could be perceived as arrogant. I'm not sure still.
Guess what? I modified the lyrics to the first verse of Pink's "So What" to make an awesome song for all of the bad sports out there in chess:
"So What?" (The Sore Loser Song) *With my humblest apologies to Pink*
Na-na-na-NA-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na.
Na-na-na-NA-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na.
I guess I just lost this chess game; I don't know where it went.
I'm not going to shake your hand, though. I'm just going to yell and vent.
I've got a brand new attitude that I'm going to share tonight.
Don't care if I get in trouble; I want to start a fight.
Na-na-na-NA-na-na-na, I want to start a fight.
Na-na-na-NA-na-na-na, I want to start a fight!
So, so what? I'm still a chess star. I've got my chess moves,
I should have beat you, and guess what? Our game was no fun,
And now that we're done, I'm going to show you tonight, that you bite.
I'm just fine, and you're a fool, so, so what? I'm still a chess star,
I've got my chess moves, and I'll defeat you tonight!
Nice song ladya. Now you need to make a YouTube video of it. I like Pink now. Didn't like her early junk. She definitely matured and became really good as time went by. She's so much better now. She's cool and she rocks and her songs are well written and put together.
And Woodrow, did they do that in one of their games?
Anyone ever heard of this happening ? Can't remember where I heard this, and it may be a chess myth...
Player A is winning and wondering when his opponent, Player B, will resign. Player B makes his move, hits his clock, and then shrugs, holds out his hand and says "Nice game, thanks", then rushes off. Player A takes this as a resignation.
When Player A looks at the scores and pairings for the next round he sees that he actually lost the game on time.