waffllemaster wrote:
I haven't been sleeping well / I'm just off my game tonight / I can't see anything tonight / give me time to sober up
So far I think this is the funniest post for the excuse list
Things some chess players say when they blunder
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<insert curse-word> then "Why do I even bother with this <insert curse word>?".
rascalnikov wrote:
then "Why do I even bother with this?".
Bollocks, why do i even bother with this hogwash
Yup, sound about right.
I keep hearing people say, "I wasn't even trying!" a LOT
pigchess1 wrote:
I keep hearing people say, "I wasn't even trying!" a LOT
Just say, "neither was I actually" 
i would say when i accidently sac a piece for a pawn "at least he won't be using that pawn anymore"
I just blame it on a slip of the mouse 
Years ago on a site called Chessclub, I played against this guy who blundered, allowing me to take his piece. He then typed "My stupid kid told me to do that, lol".
Really? Your "stupid" kid? I'm a new dad myself, and I'd never refer to my child as "my stupid kid". So it was either just a plain lie, or he's a horrible dad, who insulted his son while he was watching, just to not look bad in front of a stranger he's never met, with no idea what he looks like; and I couldn't see him either, so it's not like I would ever know who made that blunder.
shinbits wrote:
Years ago on a site called Chessclub, I played against this guy who blundered, allowing me to take his piece. He then typed "My stupid kid told me to that, lol".
Really? Your "stupid" kid? I'm a new dad myself, and I'd never refer to my child as "my stupid kid". So it was either just a plain lie, or he's a horrible dad, who insulted his son while he was watching, just to not look bad in front of a stranger he's never met, with no idea what he looks like; and I couldn't see him either, so it's not like I would ever know who made that blunder.
I had a really bizarre one where they started chatting to me after losing a game:
"Thanks for playing, I'm only 5"
"Actually I'm baby sitting for a friend and their kid is 5, he's sitting in my lap telling me which moves to play"
"He wants to get better so we're playing online"
And all these weird messages like that. The whole time I'm wondering why this person is telling me this...
Look! Whats that behind you!!
(alternatly: "Hmm. Thats a strange place to put a piano.")
waffllemaster wrote:
shinbits wrote:
Years ago on a site called Chessclub, I played against this guy who blundered, allowing me to take his piece. He then typed "My stupid kid told me to that, lol".
Really? Your "stupid" kid? I'm a new dad myself, and I'd never refer to my child as "my stupid kid". So it was either just a plain lie, or he's a horrible dad, who insulted his son while he was watching, just to not look bad in front of a stranger he's never met, with no idea what he looks like; and I couldn't see him either, so it's not like I would ever know who made that blunder.
I had a really bizarre one where they started chatting to me after losing a game:
"Thanks for playing, I'm only 5"
"Actually I'm baby sitting for a friend and their kid is 5, he's sitting in my lap telling me which moves to play"
"He wants to get better so we're playing online"
And all these weird messages like that. The whole time I'm wondering why this person is telling me this...
I just didn't want you to feel bad losing to an old fogey like me.
"I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."
"Did I leave the iron on?"
"By Fischer's Beard! What the hell am I thinking?"
I recall an occasion where I blundered a pawn in the opening. I told my opponent "I'm just going to call that a gambit."
Whenever I make a blunder in a game against I much younger opponent at my public hobby shop I just say " if you take you loose the game I gotta plan " or something similar to that nature. Like a reverse psychology because they will think that I want them to take but under all of that I really don't lol