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A "Phyrric" Victory?

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Seleucid
Seleucid
May 30, 2009
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#1

This game embodies the spirit of winning against all odds and costs. The irony of this game is that after computer analysis my opponent didn't seem to make any horrible mistakes as I did.

However I still won the game! Believe it or not.Your comments folks TIA!

Summer_Sea_Frog
Summer_Sea_Frog
May 30, 2009
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#2

Nice game

ostrich321
ostrich321
Oct 18, 2010
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#3

You're right. The goal of chess is to "kill" the king at all costs even at the cost of material advantage. I think that if checkmate is achieved, how many mistakes you made or your opponent made doesn't make much of a difference.

reinwin
reinwin
Aug 23, 2017
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#4

 Why are people poor losers. I was playing a terrible game and just kept working it.

 

Matthew-Gross: A$$HOLE
reinwin: wow
reinwin: you are pathetic
reinwin: desperate begging for a draw
reinwin: and then insults
Matthew-Gross: you know nothing of sportsmanship
Matthew-Gross: it was a dead draw
Matthew-Gross: by repitition
reinwin: Do you not understand that you agreed to play a timed game
Matthew-Gross: Read the Fide rules
reinwin: or are you void of free will
reinwin: yes, and time controls are agreed upon before a match. Read about fischer's return
Matthew-Gross: Fide states that when it is a dead draw even in blitz it should be drawn
reinwin: or chess.com's rules, the place you are playing
Matthew-Gross: Winning on time is a phyrric victory
reinwin: then play with a move increment, dont play dead end time controls
Matthew-Gross: You no nothing, did you graduate HS?
reinwin: no?
reinwin: you mean know
Matthew-Gross: Read the Fide rules on blitz
reinwin: I have an electrical engineering degree
reinwin: Sir you agreed to a fixed match, don't complain
reinwin: be a big boy
reinwin: and it wasnt a dead draw
reinwin: I was up a pawn with your king displaced by mine
reinwin: your checks would have eventually been met with a queen block+
reinwin: and I would have forced an exchange and promoted to a queen with 2+ minutes left
reinwin: The only check you had left was Q to the f file
reinwin: then I would have moved Qf6
reinwin: forced exchange
reinwin: walked my pawn right in
oregonpatzer
oregonpatzer
Aug 23, 2017
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#5

It is indeed "Pyrrhic".  Looked at reinwin's game, LOL, you hung a bishop out in right field on move 5.  If it is accurate, the transcript is pathetic, but I did notice that you and the OP both misspelled Pyrrhic the same way, time for Matthew-Gross to come in here and defend himself.  We don't have to observe FIDE rules on chess.com, the only rules are the ones incorporated into the software, which cannot be bribed, seduced or intimidated, unlike FIDE officials, and they say that if your flag falls when I still have mating force on the board, you die.