Anyone wanna share their stories with toxic chess players and bad sports?

oh wow this is a old post super old but oh well one of my recent encounters was from last month in a classical tournament where i played 1.e3, beating my opponent and he raged shaking my hand and was yelling, slapping his notation book super hard that everyone was laughing at it

Can you hire the fairly broke chess engine to teach me? I'm pretty sure I easily achieve an elo of 5000 with this guy as my coach

@chickenoctopus101

I made a thread asking about how bad a 200 rating is in chess and this was sent to me as a response. 

That was not relevant or kind. But I think people are just getting tired of these threads where people ask how good or how bad their ratings might be. It comes off as disingenuous and just begging for attention.  I'm disappointed that anyone would be that rude, but I'm not surprised. I'm pretty tired of these "how good / how bad" threads myself. 

What's that mean?

Yesterday a player, after losing to me, said "I wish the World War turned out differently." Part of me hopes that it was just a bad translation.

Nice!

like in clash royale lol

I just finished a game with a player who decided to go on vacation for two months after I forced him to move his King on the eighth move and forego the chance to castle. When the game resumed, it played out until the fortieth move. At this point, he went on vacation again and just let the clock run down after the vacation ended. The entire game took around three months to play due to his stalling. Chess seems to bring out the immature nature of some people.

I was at a hotel and watched a father play chess with his two sons. I analyzed the game with a friend and made jokes about the father's bad moves. Eventually, one of the sons left and the father played the other son. I thought the son was winning, but later saw that he only had a bishop left. The father had two pawns and a king, and I thought the son had lost. However, the father made an illegal move and tried to take back the pawn that the son captured. He became aggressive and made up a different story about what happened. He took the pawn back and eventually promoted one of the pawns, causing the son to lose. If the pawn had been taken as it should have been, the son could have had a draw and avoided being teased by a cocky dad. Even if the father's win was inevitable, it was still not sportsmanlike for him to behave poorly after losing a piece

One person called yoga girl (something like that) was winning the game until I made a discovered check and started to get the advantage. When I was close to checkmating, she accused me of being a cheater and said she would report me. I was going to message her and give a levelheaded response, but she blocked me. For the most part, everyone else is very nice

One more encounter is a person was a playing me but then was losing. They kept asking for a draw but who would take a draw when they're winning? Anyway, they got annoyed and called me a princess before resigning.

Playing a variant recently, I was winning. Just before resigning, my opponent wrote "I hope you will get cancer."

I mean, wow. So ugly, I just had to laugh. (Yes, I reported him.)

Minutes ago i made a forced M1 to a indian person, and not only he say im not going to win, he also said "wait me im visiting your mother" and wasted 25 min of my time. These behaviour should be corrected in chess.com and banned for such a bad sports and wasting time. At the end my oponent lost the game by time but u know, is very frustating playing against people with childish and a inmature brain.

#37 Next time report for stalling and block. They will be punished if they continue doing this, so why do anything but laugh?

Here are two cases that happened right in front of me, but to somebody else, not to me.

1) Weird scenes at the Canadian Open - Chess Forums - Chess.com - Read it and weep.

2) Playing in a rated OTB tournament in Saint John, NB, Canada. It was raining outside, and the few spectators present were wearing rain-gear. At the board next to me, a friend (Charles) was playing a very tense attack-vs-counterattack game. After long thought, he moved his King from g1 to h1, to get off the c5-f2 diagonal and un-pin his f-Pawn. His opponent replied quickly, and it was again Charles' move. A spectator had been watching the play and swung around to go look at a different table... and the edge of his raincoat knocked Charles' King off the h1 square onto the floor. Charles reached down to pick it up and set it back on the board, and his opponent said "Touch-move."

The Tournament Director upheld the claim. Worst TD decision I've ever seen in my life. Charles had to move his King back to g1, having lost two moves and a lot of thinking-time in a double-edged attacking position. He was also distraught over the TD inexplicably siding with his opponent.

He lost quickly.

Here's a recent conversation I had in a rapid game:

The funny thing is, the guy is probably a cheater.

Literally the game after that, I played the person below. I declined his rematch, so he responded logically:

A former coach of mine once told me about his experience with a bad sport. He said his opponent resigned, and then immediately punched him in the face.

In a tournament I was at a few months ago, a member of my club, rated around 1880, was playing someone a couple hundred points higher than him in one of the final rounds of the tournament. The position was drawn, but the higher-rated player was in major time trouble. He ended up blundering a drawn king and pawns (I think that's what it was) endgame due to the time pressure, resigned soon after, and stormed out of the room into the hallway. He threw the apple he had onto the ground as hard as he could, which ended up splattering all over the place, which he did not clean up.

My personal favorite bad sports are the people who know they're beat but abandon the game rather than resign. Also, the people who know they're beat but let the clock run for 3 minutes and make no moves during that time. Of course, with the wretched way I've been playing lately, I haven't been experiencing that much lately!

Which one?

Yeah that’s most of the reason I play 3min max almost exclusively. Like, go ahead, time me out and waste TWO MINUTES of my life. Whereas, in 15|10 or 30|0, suddenly that gets a lot worse (and more dangerous if they wait and then eventually DO make a move, sometimes leading to a loss on your end), although in those cases I usually just pull up a longform YT video and occasionally check back on the game