At my rating range some offer draw in a resigning position. If I decline, they do time stalling. 😂
Stop being a poor sport over drawish positions!
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There are a lot of poor sports here, unfortunately. Just a moment ago I was playing an arena tournament and fighting for top 3 finish. The last game I had completely crushing position (up a queen) which I would've easily converted with the almost 2 minutes remaining on the clock. Instead of resigning or playing the game out my opponent just waited the rest of his time and since he happened to have two seconds more in his clock than there was in the tournament, the game was aborted with no result since the tournament ended. Mind you, he was playing every move in 1-2 seconds until blundering his queen after which he stopped moving.
I guess a few rating points are more important to some than fair play.
Time limits are part of Arena Chess.
The clock is part of the game.
The clock is part of the game.
Monie49 wrote:
Time limits are part of Arena Chess.
The clock is part of the game.
The clock is part of the game.
You could say this about everything. Doesn't mean it makes you a good sport.
They should at least fix it to make sure that the last game doesn't get aborted when time runs out. It's fine if it doesn't count for tournament score, but either stop pairing people when there is no more time left to play a full game or make the game finish. What is even the point of starting a game that just gets aborted in the middle? Is that part of the game as well?
Jul 21, 2020
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nexim wrote:
There are a lot of poor sports here, unfortunately. Just a moment ago I was playing an arena tournament and fighting for top 3 finish. The last game I had completely crushing position (up a queen) which I would've easily converted with the almost 2 minutes remaining on the clock. Instead of resigning or playing the game out my opponent just waited the rest of his time and since he happened to have two seconds more in his clock than there was in the tournament, the game was aborted with no result since the tournament ended. Mind you, he was playing every move in 1-2 seconds until blundering his queen after which he stopped moving.
I guess a few rating points are more important to some than fair play.
That is jacked-up!!
Jul 21, 2020
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bisht_bisht_bisht wrote:
At my rating range some offer draw in a resigning position. If I decline, they do time stalling. 😂
Chess.com is a pretty classy site in general. I've played of fics and gameknot and poor sports don't get punished there. They do here. But some of these players "didn't get the memo" yet, and so they inconvenience others and hurt themselves by being poor sports.
In a blitz game, especially, if someone wants to keep playing (even a Queen down!) I don't grumble about it--I just win the game. Interesting that people keep playing you when you're a queen down (because they want the win), but if you don't give them a draw at first offer, they try stalling tactics.
I just think how petty they are and how it does not accord to such a royal game!
I'm about 16-1700. Often when a "drawish-looking" endgame arises with my opponents (during blitz, mind you), they offer a draw, and sometimes I don't take it, since there is still a lot of play in the position (pawns have yet to be exchanged, tricks, etc.). I've certainly won/lost games in "drawish" positions, due to mistakes or tricks. So I decline the draw. A few moves later, however, the position is obviously a draw, the pawns have had their say, the position is locked, and nobody is doing anything. So I offer a draw, and they REFUSE! Yep, they want to "punish" me for not accepting their obviously master-class wisdom, having inconvenienced them by forcing them to play a few more moves. So they "draw out" the game as long as possible, trying not to repeat moves, just to "show me". Well that's poor sportsmanship for sure. The difference is that I refused a draw because I honestly thought the position had some tricks to it, and a win might result, or I thought I actually might have an advantage. THEY refuse a draw out of sheer spite. These are 15-1600 players, mind you, not exactly strong enough to always know when a real draw is on the board. I report them and block them. How sad their little lives are! Don't be like them. Assume your opponent honestly believes there's play in the position. Don't be an a$$, okay?