Sportsmanship in Chess - Chess Forums

darius

Jul 12, 2008

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When I play chess, I frequently run to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee or a few herring. I have to run because my opponents will often move quickly when I leave so that the time will run out on my clock. These short spurts of running and the balance required not to spill my coffee are very challenging and exhausting, not to mention the exhaustion I suffer when I discover my opponent, one Fred Fecklman, has stolen one of my pawns and is hiding it under a pillow. His girlfriend Hillary is not any better. She usually spots me a rook odds and then distracts me by singing during the game. Even worse, if I leave the room she steals my queen!

Anyhow, my point about chess is that when I am not playing Fred or his songstress, the game of chess is not a physically active pursuit. Nevertheless, I find it mentally exhausting and have taken my body temperature during a difficult game and registered 39.5 degrees centrigade which converted to US fahrenheit is about 112. This accelerated metabolism often causes me to shake uncontrollably, and crave large quantities of salted crackers and orange juice.

I asked a physician friend the meaning of this temperature rise, and she assured me it was not out of the ordinary. Furthermore, she said that checker players run high temps too during play although they only go up to 39 centigrade, while people playing world of warcraft on line have a drop in body temperature.

I think people can have sportsmanship during a chess game, bad or good, and there is certainly increased mentation to which there must be some small supportive response from the rest of the body, but certainly in the traditional sense of sport ACTIVITY chess is not one of the classics. However, I think a more appropriate question would be, if you are mated by your opponent, can you sue them for palimony after the game.

maniac2008

Jul 12, 2008

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haha lol... nice story!

darius

Jul 12, 2008

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#3

thanks, I'm glad someone read it without throwing my herring at me for being silly

maniac2008

Jul 13, 2008

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#4

lol ... i play chess sometimes with my friends ... and if i dont keep watch of the board at all times... then the move my pieces or take them... that is not good sportsmanship at all... i think they just dont like 2 lose... and as i am female... if i win against my m8 as they r usually men i play they really dont like losing ... all fun and games tho...

darius

Jul 13, 2008

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@maniac

People are funny in how they react. Allowing for occasional aberrancy's in behavior, it still tells you something about them. I'm not very good at playing speed chess but once played someone on line a ten minute game and lost. All happy and friendly and chatty on line that he won, my opponent challenged me to another, and I said okay. We played again, and I was now a bit more used to the speed of moves and playing a bit better, so my opponent was losing. Suddenly, my opponent disappeared. No resignation or continued friendliness. I thought it was hilarious, but on the bright side I didn't have to listen to him sing.

hondoham

Jul 13, 2008

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#6

i don't steal chess pieces when i visit people and they are out the room. i do hope they don't count their silverware though.

maniac2008

Jul 13, 2008

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#7

lol .., @ darius...

yea that happens 2 me on here sometimes ... when they r winnin they r all chattin away and then if they make a mistake or i find another way 2 get back at them... then they stop talkin or they dont make their moves 4 ages ... lol

darius

Jul 13, 2008

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#8

Indeed! In my only pending game, my opponent put himself on vacation, and then resigned from the site so that the game would sit there for 40 days. It wasn't until my third opponent that I finally found someone who would finish a game. Sometimes people are a little whacko...lol

NM GreenLaser

Jul 13, 2008

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I am glad this story was related in print, not orally, because something's the matjes with my herring. In fact, something is the mattress with my memory. You claim a temperature of 112 - was it you or your brother who died last year?

maniac2008

Jul 13, 2008

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#10

greenlaser what u talkin about

darius

Jul 13, 2008

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@greenlaser

My brother MattJust died on the stage, in vaudeville. While singing Thanks for the Memories, he forgot the words, causing him to have a nerdy breakdown. He then launched into a seven hour imitation of Jerry Lewis doing the nutty Professor. His girlfriend was so enamored of his shenanigans that she proposed to him but sadly he dropped Her-ring in a jar of pickles and she wouldn't speak to him ever again. However, they still played chess every night and eventually married despite remaining incommunicado. BTW, she usually won the games as she was stronger in the sac.

maniac2008

Jul 14, 2008

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#12

lol ... thats very funny ... i like it

NM GreenLaser

Jul 14, 2008

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darius wrote, "Thanks for the Memories," which recalls Bob Hope. Hope revised that when he met Dolly Parton, but not as much as Dracula who offered, "Fangs for the mammaries."

darius

Jul 14, 2008

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Thank you m, a little silly I admit but I was in a silly mood. :-) How are your games going? I am in that chess.com vs computer game and not only are we in trouble against the computers but the team seems to be bickering. I wonder if there is any advantage to bickering, something that comes of it that is creative. There probably is but it gives me a headache...

NM Greenlaser

good one, now you're taking me down mammary lane...

:-)

jhuschstp

Jul 14, 2008

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#15

haha

NM GreenLaser

Jul 14, 2008

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darius wrote, "good one, now you're taking me down mammary lane..." Just down that lane is the Hollander Tunnel.

maniac2008

Jul 15, 2008

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#17

haha @ darius...

i think team troubles can in a way help u ...

hope ur headache is gone lol.

but

Aug 17, 2008

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#18

yore crazy

vijaykulkarni

Oct 21, 2008

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#19

Some interesting communication here.. I feel like not playing ever again with some people who use all legal rules to delay or defer their turns with mates staring at them.. Alas we get to know them only after having played with them..

zlhflans

Oct 21, 2008

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#20

hehe. nice posting