yes and demanding your opponent resign as opposed to actually beating them is a very poor sport.
Hey kids! Learn how to resign!
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TheCalculatorKid is 100% correct!
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Jan 23, 2020
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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
TheCalculatorKid wrote:
yes and demanding your opponent resign as opposed to actually beating them is a very poor sport.
But many believe that playing on forever is also a poor sport. It's another one of these things where everybody's pointing fingers (and heaping on blame).
Some people need a healthy dose of "never assume malice when . . ."
But I think that's the root complaint right? People feel their opponent is going against the spirit of the competition, and there are no shortage of ways to do that.
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
TheCalculatorKid wrote:
yes and demanding your opponent resign as opposed to actually beating them is a very poor sport.
But many believe that playing on forever is also a poor sport. It's another one of these things where everybody's pointing fingers (and heaping on blame).
The answer is in the rules of the game. Is it legal to play on? If I felt there was a 2% chance of a better result, I'd play on.
But less so in blitz, when the returns are likely to be better by resigning and playing another.
If you want my Elo you're going to have to take it from me.
Hey kid ! Learn how to checkmate !
Instead of whining your wish
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ryan_x_d wrote:
you should never resign in bullet or blitz though
I'm more likely to resign in blitz if I think my chances are very low. Depends how well the opposition is playing. Use the energy in a better way.
Jan 24, 2020
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TheCalculatorKid wrote:
I wonder if the OP realises it's actually him in the wrong and him displaying poor sportsmanship.
Apart from people doing things actually against the rules, which is separate, literally every case of anyone claiming poor sportsmanship is exhibiting poor sportsmanship themselves instead. Sportsmanship is just one of those airy-fairy things that people use to push their own ideas of how people should act onto others. Chess has rules, anything else is just one person's petty ideas as to what they believe an opponent should do. If it was universal it would be part of the rules.
Optimissed wrote:
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
TheCalculatorKid wrote:
yes and demanding your opponent resign as opposed to actually beating them is a very poor sport.
But many believe that playing on forever is also a poor sport. It's another one of these things where everybody's pointing fingers (and heaping on blame).
The answer is in the rules of the game. Is it legal to play on? If I felt there was a 2% chance of a better result, I'd play on.
I think that's a good way of looking at it. I think a lot of times playing on to avoid the loss is just as challenging as playing on to win.
"If it cant be fun, what's the point?"
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I wonder if the OP realises it's actually him in the wrong and him displaying poor sportsmanship.