I agree ..... maybe chess needs a doubling cube like backgammon has in order to make some people resign when they should OR maybe lose twice the rating points when you " double" ?
I agree, and Chesscube has a doubling cube in... TOURNAMENTS
I don't think it's rude. If it's the quickest way to mate, do it.
when I'm punishing someone for refusing to resign, I promote to rooks. Most immediately resign when they see I won't even give them a stalemate chance by using rooks instead of queens.
Depends on the person I guess. I've had someone try this on me once and I made sure to use every last second I had in my time while making the game last for as long as possible with my moves.
As long as stalemate is a tie, I will go until a person proves they can win with mate. If that person decides to waste my time during the process, I will waste theirs back. In the end I'm never bothered by it so whatever they're trying to prove by doing so isn't working and I've already set aside the maximum amount of time for the game before I started. So it would probably be best for them to just mate and get it over with rather than prove a point, they won't have taught me to resign when they want someone to.
I agree with Tragasus - usually once you have promoted a pawn (usually to a Queen), your opponent should resign and not waste everybody's time.
Interesting to see this come back after 3 months. Just a couple of days ago I posted this in the "Fun with chess" forums showing the extreme punishment of one who doesn't resign!
Apologies for anyone who had to see this crap again...
Usually one queen should be enough to win and it is not rude to get it. Getting multiple promotions while you could win easily is very childish, even if you think the opponent should have resigned. Two wrongs don't make a right. I certainly never resigned when people started getting multiple promotions and I never will. I'll resign when I'm good and ready. If I'm in the mood to play the game out, not my problem what the opponent does!
I don't think they always expect to win. In sports like football or basketball the teams will play on in one-sided games even though it's blatantly obvious that there is no way they can win the game. Perhaps they are bringing this over to chess.
Strong players know that one-sided games are usually a matter of technique or a science. But I think most people will see it as a game or sport instead of a science and they will play on until the end.
"All that matters is that I gave it 110%." Football players, and now chessplayers...
I don't think they always expect to win. In sports like football or basketball the teams will play on in one-sided games even though it's blatantly obvious that there is no way they can win the game. Perhaps they are bringing this over to chess.
Strong players know that one-sided games are usually a matter of technique or a science. But I think most people will see it as a game or sport instead of a science and they will play on until the end.
Yes, but in a football or basketball game, there's no option to resign, nor is there any way to "win as quickly as possible". About the closest thing is for the losing team in a blowout to start playing its bench players, and that usually happens after the winning team does the same. And the closest thing to playing on a queen down would be if a basketball team is down, say, 20 points with two minutes left, and they keep fouling the other team to put them on the free throw line and prolong the game.
What does chess etiquette have to say about promoting pawns when I'm already ahead in material? Say a bishop and two pawns.. It seems safest and fastest for me (at my skill level.. about 1400 turn-based online) to win by doing that, but it seems like piling on. Would doing so irritate people? Is it insulting to keep your advanced pawns two ranks back deliberately? What am I missing here? Thanks guys!
what you're missing is ....
it's insulting to "intend" insult
(though even then, your opponent may still not be dumb enough to hurt themself with it)
Yes, there is the possibility of resigning to end the misery, but I would say that if you are promoting to seven knights, chances are you are doing it out of spite. And spite is not a good thing, in my opinion.
I was down to a king verse an opponent who still had a queen and plenty of pawns. He had a clear mate in one, but decided to premote all of his pawns. About 15 moves later he stalemated me. Lesson? Never resign, that is if you are willing to endure the shame.
lot of big egos play chess and you've just exposed the chess achilles heel.
It's an annoying waste of time either way. Just trap the king with a rook and end the stupid game.
People like to think chess is like other sports where if you try hard maybe you can pull something off. Chess isn't like that. At some point you're just screwed and there's nothing you can do about it.
As annoyingly theoretical as it may be, I don't assume there is such thing as a 100%/0% chance of anything happening. Even if there is a 100% chance of something happening, my mind is too limited to ever know if that is really the case. And I'm not talking about heart attacks during a game (although I am including temporary blind spots in our brains) or anything like that.
I actually played a position with two rooks vs one against houdini, with me having a passed A pawn (it's a long story; actually, I was arguing with my father that the position was the kind I had a 100% chance of winning against anyone; I don't believe that anymore), houdini having three pawns on the kingside as well as I; we both had a queen. Surprisingly, I still had to be a little careful. I did win, but I feel like I would probably miss something to throw away the win once in a blue moon; for instance, forgetting about houdini's Qxf2+ as I move my rook away from f2 to support my passed pawn! In any case, I cannot at all say I am certain I would win that position 1000 times out of 1000, at least against houdini.
So I still keep the option open that there is a small possibility of any position being won or drawn by the underdog, although in some cases the percentage could be as low as 10^-30, crazy numbers like this.
A player has the right to make any legal move he pleases, whether that may be shuffling his king or promoting needlessly to minor pieces. If that annoys you, you're playing the wrong game. I'd feel much worse getting mated in 20 moves than 120.
The right, yes, but then that wasn't the question, was it?
Well, that's your opinion Anthony, but not everyone views it the same way. Personally I wouldn't play those overwhelming positions on unless in a bullet game, but if someone wants to keep their opponent honest, make sure they don't over-confidently promote too many queens and eventually make a stalemate, I think that's up to them. I agree that playing on positions to the end might waste time that could have been used for something else, but some people just really enjoy the struggle, even to the point of playing on some ridiculous positions.
a player playing a completely lost position is hoping for you to mess up. You must not mess up. Promote as much as you need- all of them if you like.
Promote pawns until you have a full set again and then practice mating with 2 bishops. or 3 knights. =D