@thrillerfan - I get it that you play OTB tournaments etc. and that's all fine and dandy, good for you. The fact of the matter is I don't believe you. I have a really hard time believing anyone would sit there for 30 minutes unless they thought they may find a way out of the position. Sorry, your story doesn't make sense, other than to brag about how you play these OTB tournaments. Good for you buddy, we are all really impressed.
Clearly you are clueless.
It's not about a brag at all!
I have had moves that require over 50 minutes of thought. That happens.
However, like another poster mentioned, you can't see what is going on in an online game. I can see first hand the difference between my opponent making a move after thinking for 35 minutes, and my opponent making a moves after d**king around for 35 minutes for the sheer sake of prolonging the game and making a player sit there and wait when the position is clearly won.
And the main point is, from your posts 1 and 4, that with these shaningans that go on in over the board tournaments, if you expect any of us to have sympathy or empathy for you about someone stalling for a whopping 2 minutes, think again!
And you know what? Your whole speel about "not believing me"? Take the "L" out of the title of your post, and only those types of people go around saying that I don't tell the truth!
haha ok I will bite,
firstly are you seriously telling me that stating "I have had moves that require over 50 minutes of thought" is not bragging?? lol
secondly I would prefer to be OTB to at least see if my opponent had got up and left the board, at least then you don't sit there waiting wondering what the heck is happening.
Maybe you assume your opponent is d**king around after thinking 35 minutes about a move. But think about that for a second, that makes no sense either. Obviously he or she is making the best move possible to them. Maybe it doesn't reach your high and mighty Chess standards but that's no reason to call it d**king around. Not everyone can be as wonderfully talented as you at chess. Maybe check your ego next time at the door...
To answer all of your Questions:
Firstly - NO! It's pointing out that long stalls do happen - in response to your doubt that anybody would stall over 30 minutes. It happens, but the one player that did it in 2006 did it with clear intent to simply stall and be a d**k, unlike others I've had go over 50 minutes that were legitimate, and how is it bragging if it clearly also implies that others have long thinks like that too, not just myself? I've been on both sides of 50-minute thinks, the thinker and the one not on move.
Secondly, mine was no assumption, and again, I refer you to the original post about it. He actually proceeded to enter a 1 in the blank beside White's name (which was me) and a 0 beside Black's name, which was his. But he purposely did not acknowledge that he was resigning, and I had the director force him to clarify, and the director made him erase the result. This is not the same at sitting there with your head facing the board or looking upward in a "thinker's stance". This was him truly being a d**k. Let's also point out that in 2007, at the Southwest Virginia Open, when he saw me come in to register, he blurted to the director that he better not pair me against him or he would kill me! He was that sure of himself that he was so good that nobody should be able to beat him, only draw or lose, and so when I beat him in 2006, he was, in all seriousness, a complete lunatic.
And lastly, I don't claim to be "wonderfully talented at chess" like your snide comments state. I'm in the 2100s, not the 2800s.
Clearly you've got nothing better to do with your life but whine and bi*ch on the message board because a player stalls, and then when someone refuses to give you sympathy or show empathy for you about a 2-minute stall by pointing out far more extreme cases, you have nothing better to do with your snotty attitude but to take what people say, twist them around, exaggerate to extremes, and make even more of a fool out of yourself!
Good Bye! No more dealing fools like you. Maybe the real slimcheffy will please stand up.
@thrillerfan - I get it that you play OTB tournaments etc. and that's all fine and dandy, good for you. The fact of the matter is I don't believe you. I have a really hard time believing anyone would sit there for 30 minutes unless they thought they may find a way out of the position. Sorry, your story doesn't make sense, other than to brag about how you play these OTB tournaments. Good for you buddy, we are all really impressed.
Clearly you are clueless.
It's not about a brag at all!
I have had moves that require over 50 minutes of thought. That happens.
However, like another poster mentioned, you can't see what is going on in an online game. I can see first hand the difference between my opponent making a move after thinking for 35 minutes, and my opponent making a moves after d**king around for 35 minutes for the sheer sake of prolonging the game and making a player sit there and wait when the position is clearly won.
And the main point is, from your posts 1 and 4, that with these shaningans that go on in over the board tournaments, if you expect any of us to have sympathy or empathy for you about someone stalling for a whopping 2 minutes, think again!
And you know what? Your whole speel about "not believing me"? Take the "L" out of the title of your post, and only those types of people go around saying that I don't tell the truth!
haha ok I will bite,
firstly are you seriously telling me that stating "I have had moves that require over 50 minutes of thought" is not bragging?? lol
secondly I would prefer to be OTB to at least see if my opponent had got up and left the board, at least then you don't sit there waiting wondering what the heck is happening.
Maybe you assume your opponent is d**king around after thinking 35 minutes about a move. But think about that for a second, that makes no sense either. Obviously he or she is making the best move possible to them. Maybe it doesn't reach your high and mighty Chess standards but that's no reason to call it d**king around. Not everyone can be as wonderfully talented as you at chess. Maybe check your ego next time at the door...