Humiliate your opponent?

Humiliation how? Humiliating him over the board with your skillful play? Thats fine. Thats just being better. Vocally? Well thats not really humiliation to me, thats more of insulting (along with wearing headphones during a chess match, reading a book during the match, or just having that smug look on your face...Bah, besides the point). If you start taunting your opponent, thats insulting, which is not good simply from the sportsmanship aspect.

I like humiliating players that don't resign by promoting all my pawns to knights and mating them with the cavalry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxBtrT_qZgI

Magnus enjoys  demolishing his opponents.

You have to break your opponents will to resist, drain their self confidence and belief.

Then be as nice as pie, that way they buy the beer.

I respect the opinions of others, but honestly I think that attitude, the "desire to humiliate one's opponent" is extremely immature. If someone needs that stance to psych themselves into winning, then perhaps they had better spend a bit more time working on their game versus trying to feel like a demi-god. 10 years at this website AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY OPPONENT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER....I just like to play.

i would say yes but as long as you know your opponent so your not being disrespectful of their time

Mote than one chess player has the desire to make their opponent feel like a fool. If that is not their intent, they certainly look like an arrogant blankity blank blank.

But not all players feel this way.

Some play to:

• Lose themselves in the flow.

• Experience beauty.

• Grow in understanding.

• Share in something human and ancient.

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yes if they toxic they deserve it

"Alexander Alekhine stated that he enjoyed humiliating his opponents. Is this a common attitude among chess players? "

Alekhine was recognized as a great chess players and an equally terrible human being. Hating opponents doesn't make one a great competitor, rather it makes one a malignant piece of trash. The attributes that make one a great competitor are almost always very positive character traits, those who say otherwise are trying to justify their own dark behavior. You are your actions.

RIP e-pawn

As for Alekhine...

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/at-the-gm-bar

"The ideal chess player is born"

Just like a-holes.

Practice is great but talent is totally another thing ...