Is it unpolite to make three queens?

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Atomic-Leader

Having many queens is not unpolite if your opponent has just a king because it makes it a higher chance to get draw.

Atomic-Leader

Also you can win vs. 56 queens.

alikting

in bullet it happens alot..

Johnny8k

I believe your opponent is impolite if he/she does not resign at that point.

colinsaul

I would be embarassed if my opponent let me have three queens.

TurboFish

I witnessed an unusual game with 5 queens between GM Joel Benjamin and GM Kamil Miton at the 2005 World Open in Philidelphia. I had never before seen so many queens in a GM game, although this tense situation did not last long -- multiple queens were exchanged off faster that the spectators' demo board could be updated.

 




Bobbarooski
Johnny8k wrote:

I believe your opponent is impolite if he/she does not resign at that point.

+1

MSteen

I have occasionally promoted to more material than I needed to win, sort of in a silent protest against my opponent's stubborn refusal to resign. But that's always been in online games where I have time to think. In OTB games, especially in time trouble, extra queens just means dozens more opportunities to stalemate. I wouldn't do it. Just go for the simple win.

margosmiles

I prefer to keep getting knights

DjonniDerevnja
MSteen wrote:

I have occasionally promoted to more material than I needed to win, sort of in a silent protest against my opponent's stubborn refusal to resign. But that's always been in online games where I have time to think. In OTB games, especially in time trouble, extra queens just means dozens more opportunities to stalemate. I wouldn't do it. Just go for the simple win.

Sounds a bit like my threequeengame. He only walked around on three squares with the king, while I walked pawn 2 to queening, and later pawn 3. Why dont he resign I thought, so I walked those pawns a couple of weeks, and guessed he waited for the stalemate.

M9st1cQu88n

The fact that you need three is the sad part

Khas

Eh. Personally, I feel like it is a little disrespectful but I also would never find myself in such a position where I am up against three queens because if I was losing that badly, I would have already resigned because at that point, it's not really playing to win but rather playing in the vain hope that your opponent will make a seriously stupid blunder.

So sure, I would agree that it is impolite. Disrespectful even. But I would never call you out on it or even make mention of it. Unless you asked, of course. Wink

margosmiles

Khans as you say the first impolite was the no resign

Khas
margosmiles wrote:

Khans as you say the first impolite was the no resign

Maybe. But two wrongs don't make a right. Still, it is my humble opinion that so long as you are playing the game then you have the right to play it however you want. That includes playing even in a hopeless position or playing with three queens when you could have already won the game.

DjonniDerevnja
M9st1cQu88n wrote:

The fact that you need three is the sad part

I didnt need three queens. I wanted them. My rating is above 100, and everybody with that high rating, everybody in this debate, are perfectly able to mate with only one queen and the king.

I didnt need three queens, I only wanted to look at them on my board, and play with them. Three digital queens, naked, but looking like crowns.They have a rare beauty, and they are the symbol of horrible3 danger. Three shining Queens, three female Kalashnikovdancers able to kill from the other side of the board. 

Panzerkampfwagen_V

It's polite.

kingcoast

Enjoy

DjonniDerevnja
Panzerkampfwagen_V wrote:

It's polite.

Maybe you are right. I started the game with 8 pawns, that in fact were beautiful and powerful Queens in disguise and footchains restricting their graceful moves. It is my duty as a gentleman too set them free. All eight. Lead them to the last rank, where they will get dress, crown, jewels and guns. From there, from the last rank, they will dominate with their full power and beauty.

varelse1

Yes!

Anybody who would make 3 queens in a chess game is a social outcast, who should be shunned by modern society. And tarrred & feathered, where legal.

QR4mate

I helped direct a scholastic chess tournament and and watched one player as he took all his opponets pieces and left him with only the king. He then proceded to queen each of his eight pawns. As he made his ninth queen he stalemated his opponent.