Competition can sure get heated. Do you think a group of adventurists trapped on some snow capped mountain could keep warm with a game of chess?
"learn to resign when totally outplayed"
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Ziryab wrote:
As he let his time run to zero, my opponent wrote, "learn to resign when totally outplayed."
First, NEVER ask your opponent to resign.
Second, especially don't do this when you match blunder for blunder, are low and time, and now also have a worse position.
I'm now 2-0 against this poser. I won't name and shame, and may block him for rudeness. OTOH, he offers me easy rating points "outplaying" me.
He is very proud of a blunderfest, where he threw away an advantage that was given to him. I did the same after whipping him in the opening. There are three phases in a chess game--I won the opening and reached a superior endgame. In between, I misplayed the middlegame and gave him a winning position. I was White (left column).
When you've got two bad players like this (
) in a rapid or speed game, it's always best to play it out, even if it is a dry theoretical draw. You blundered more than he did, and he still lost? What a patzer.
It might come as a news flash that online chess is not real chess, anyways. Rated OTB chess is the only real chess.
WSama wrote:
Competition can sure get heated. Do you think a group of adventurists trapped on some snow capped mountain could keep warm with a game of chess?
Not with the game, but with the comment box, sure.
It's the classic "If we ignore my bad moves, and only my bad moves, I would have won"
Well sure. That's true for pretty much every game ever played
(Although capitalizing on a dozen small errors only to throw it away in 1 move is legitimately frustrating, that doesn't look to be the case here).
So, when finding himself lost, he says you should have resigned? Well, in a second thought it makes sense...
Checkmate ends all debates. Well, it doesn't, but it ends the game decisively. If someone is winning so easily they think their opponent should resign then it shouldn't prove challenging to them to deliver checkmate either.
TheAdultProdigy wrote:
WSama wrote:
Competition can sure get heated. Do you think a group of adventurists trapped on some snow capped mountain could keep warm with a game of chess?
Not with the game, but with the comment box, sure.
😅 yes, I feel it already... something about online chess being ersatz.
TheAdultProdigy wrote:
Rated OTB chess is the only real chess.
Nah. Correspondence chess is the only real chess.
I should say, correspondence chess sans engines.
Yay, let's all get snobbish about what counts as chess. A single game of chess carried on until you go to your grave is the only real chess, by whatever medium you play it!
glamdring27 wrote:
Yay, let's all get snobbish about what counts as chess. A single game of chess carried on until you go to your grave is the only real chess, by whatever medium you play it!
"grave"..."medium" I see what you did there!
glamdring27 wrote:
Yay, let's all get snobbish about what counts as chess. A single game of chess carried on until you go to your grave is the only real chess, by whatever medium you play it!
good call xD
but to @Ziryab , thanks vm for this thread, it's good to learn what is bad etiquette and am sorry he had to be such a bad loser/winner/loser.
people are so snobby and protective about classical chess, and I think it does more harm than good when channels like chessbrah have such a huge part to play in the future in getting chess out there to a new generation. HowEVER people get into classical chess, growing numbers is another good reason to not hassle out Blitz as it only causes an unnecessary backlash /us and them situation.
Oh my goodness! A rude imbecile on chess.com!!! What next!?!
Oddly enough, as you get closer to the top... where the competition ought to be more intense... the opponents seem to get more polite.
blueemu wrote:
Oddly enough, as you get closer to the top... where the competition ought to be more intense... the opponents seem to get more polite.
Perhaps time and effort are spent more wisely at that level which is possibly how they got there in the first place.
IronIC_U wrote:
Watching as an opponent’s Clock runs to zero, when that opponent is on the verge of victory...a great experience. Clock is the least understood aspect of chess.
haha true... my first game at a local chess club, i checkmated my op in a blitz game on the last second... this super aspergers kid couldn't stop cheering about it for minutes lol ..... i can't really play blitz usually so it was very satisfying to manage that IRL.
blueemu wrote:
Oddly enough, as you get closer to the top... where the competition ought to be more intense... the opponents seem to get more polite.
This guy was only 2053 in blitz.
iluvzmetuna wrote:
as a very wise man once said (Arnold Squashanigga to be precise), “anger is better than despair”.
And he definitely knows despair
As he let his time run to zero, my opponent wrote, "learn to resign when totally outplayed."
First, NEVER ask your opponent to resign.
Second, especially don't do this when you match blunder for blunder, are low and time, and now also have a worse position.
I'm now 2-0 against this poser. I won't name and shame, and may block him for rudeness. OTOH, he offers me easy rating points "outplaying" me.
He is very proud of a blunderfest, where he threw away an advantage that was given to him. I did the same after whipping him in the opening. There are three phases in a chess game--I won the opening and reached a superior endgame. In between, I misplayed the middlegame and gave him a winning position. I was White (left column).