Flaggers

#82

The games I’m talking about are not people creating difficult decisions for me where I’m wasting a bunch of time. Did you read my comments? I’m talking about people that make nonsensical moves as quickly as possible to run your clock out because their position is lost. They’re not playing smart and making me think, it’s simply about pre-moves so my clock runs out. I also said before, it’s not like they have a significant amount of time more than me, it’s like a couple seconds. I also said before that I’m not talking about bullet. If someone flags me but they had 30 to 60 seconds more than me, then they earned that. It’s when it comes down to the wire and this person is in a lost position. I am expressing my frustration with people like that. Does that make sense?

thats called "dirty flagging", and its a part of chess too

The analogy is not hard to understand, and doesn’t need to have anything in common with Chess. The point is, many rude, unsportsmanlike, whack etc things are technically within the rules when it comes to lots of things. I was just making random examples. Hell, it’s within my freedom of speech to say whatever I want but you guys are having all sorts of issues with what I’m saying. No one is sitting here defending my rights to freedom of speech.

People can use whatever adjectives they like to describe my comments in this thread. I can use whatever adjectives I like to describe their chess playing. I really admire good chess players, and I thoroughly enjoy good chess games. I am expressing my opinion that it’s unfortunate that so many people use the strategy of moving quickly to win games. Like I said before, you could do that with any game that has a time factor. Playing like that is just a brainless activity, what’s the point?

As long as anything is within the rules , one can't be blamed for being a poor sportsman whatsoever . You can be upset about your loss , and everyone has been at some point in their life. But there's no reason to make such a big issue out of it. Get over it

I just thought of another funny example. Technically Jeff Bezos isn’t doing anything outside of the rules by paying zero dollars in taxes. Thoughts on that? I think a big part of this too is that the game is being played online and not to a persons face. If someone absolutely outplayed me in person, I would be shaking their hand saying you got me, great game. Instead of trying to physically move the pieces as quickly as possible and saying, I win because I have two seconds left ha ha. So ridiculous that you guys are into that. Again, I’m not complaining about the rules. It is within the opponents power to be a good sport and say, you deserve the win so I resign. It’s respectable to me. I’m also not angry ha ha, I’m expressing frustration. It’s not some huge deal, I’m starting to find the thread relatively interesting.

The clock is my third rook. Deal with it, or play longer time controls.

 

That is precisely the issue you confess in the post that started this thread. You played better moves. Your opponent did a better job of managing the clock.

 

Bingo!!

Time was near equal before you used half of yours to make a horrid, game losing blunder. Then, your opponent capitalized with speedy errors.

No one said the analogy was "hard to understand," we said it was just bad. Cats wasn't hard to understand, but it was still trash. And no, it doesn't need to have anything in common with Chess...it needs to have something in common with the situation, which it didn't.

Freedom of speech has nothing to do with this. I'm sorry your parents failed to teach you that making your views public is inviting criticism. 

Not half as sorry as I am they apparently didn't teach you about time management, though. lmao.

Bruh just play 15+10 or something, like what's so hard to understand? Plus if you just made accurate move in fast time controls quickly you wouldn't be having this problem. Your essentially saying slow time controls take too long and short time controls have lots of flagging which is literally an element of the game and calling it "Bad sportsmanship" like dude its your problem for getting low on time in the first place. If everybody's doing it and nobody agrees with you its not bad sportsmanship.

#97

How about a screenshot of the end result? Lmao

My opponent had six seconds which is nothing

#98

Not sure how else to explain it. Plenty of things that are “within the rules” are either rude, unsportsmanlike or whack. I have no issue with the criticism coming from people that try to move their pieces quickly instead of actually strategizing while playing chess haha. Bringing my parents into it is pretty telling about your character. This is the guy that says I’m “clogging up the forums” but continually comments on it ha ha

Yoy can keep living in an illusion that six seconds is nothing but according to the rules it’s everything.

#102

It’s a very small amount of time. We were close to neck and neck when it comes to the clock for a lot of the game. The game was lost for my opponent for a long time but they refused to resign. Look at the end position of the game, there’s zero chance. Playing that game out is ridiculous

Winning a chess game on the clock is not one of those things, there is a total concensus about it.

It was a five minute no increment game that went down to the wire which means it was 10 minutes in total. Six seconds is 1% of the entire time available. Again, look at the end position, it’s hopeless. The person was trying to flag me when they were completely lost

There’s also plenty of people that hate flagging. It’s one of the hottest topics on the forums actually

#98

Why do you think I would make my views public in the first place? Because I don’t want criticism? Ha ha. Because I expected everyone to agree with me! Lol. What is going on in your mind? So far the only argument I’ve heard from anyone is, “it’s within the rules and it’s part of the game”. Yeah no shit but, The whole point that no one seems to understand is that it’s within the persons power to be a good sport and hand the win to someone that earned it. No I’m not gonna try to run your clock out, you outplayed me real bad. My rating should not go up for that shit. That’s what makes sense to me personally but that’s just me