This guy showboated a little too much. This is why I never resign.

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Enderman1323
HorribleTomato wrote:

 WHINY WHINE WHINE!!!    Does whiner have a club? If he doesn't WHINE WHINE WHINE   

grow up

Toohey_Dee

The other guy taught you a lesson. Learn from it.

eulers_knot

Boy, that was ugly.  Good for you for sticking it out, and getting the draw.  I would ignore those who say you exhibited bad sportsmanship.  Neither you nor your opponent are masters.   I don't see anything there (on your part) that displays bad sportsmanship.

 

I agree with Mick; your opponent was being a jerk!

bgjettguitar
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Toohey_Dee

In my earlier comment I mistakenly thought the OP was the player that lost the game. My bad. I think the OP did exactly what he should've done and that was to keep on playing and hope for a stalemate which he got. Great job OP!  If your opponent is smart he will learn a lesson from this game. Congrats! 

JamesAgadir

The OP has all his rights to play until mate. The player who was wasting time was the showboater. It feels nice when showboaters get punished for showing off.

bgjettguitar

Haha!  That's hilarious.  There's nothing to critique as it's purely comical.  Awesome movement of the King.  You really had the old boy bustling round.  Please post more mirthfully senseless games such as this.  What perplexes me is why anyone here pretends to have such altruistic care (they don't) about how you utilise your time studying chess, either at a practical or pettily scrupulous level.  They don't give a rat's ass that you jacked around with this joker with the multiplicity of randomly slapdash moves.  Hell no.  Notwithstanding perhaps a few, the rubes who, on the pretence of being altruistically critical yet disingenuously disturbed about this goat-roped gaffe of a game, timed out of their own personally invested tutelage just to take potshots at someone who might be an easily wounded target.  I'm glad you played the damnable game.  Don't shy away from posting even your most pathetic games as that's what this fiasco is about.  Checking your games like he's some kind of Perry Mason or Matlock on his way to a United Nations summit meeting, is embarrassingly petty and puerile.  A bucolic big fish in a murky sort of septic tank or slop jar.  

@h4_explosive What a candid candy ass on here, perusing and pointing out what is of merit or not.  The Senior on-site, churlish chump in charge of in-house hall monitoring.  "The Chess Monitor!"  Coming cluelessly to theatres just outside the countrified county line!  Jamming on this fellow for posting a game that, perhaps, he was personally proud for others to see.  I bet you're above any possible desire for a pat on the back or, God forbid, any props from a parent or parents or anyone else for that matter.  But you know what, you pompously insecure self-absorbed approval seeking prig?   What you presumedly imagined you spotted by way of coming across his game post, is what you incessantly spot within yourself and, of course, the best defence is your own 'disgustingly' callow cowardice which is as see-through as Saran Wrap.  "Denial is to minimise the effect and justify the cause."

@fischerrook There was nothing immature about playing the game to its conclusion.  The sudden onset of egoistic moralising by several singularly ill-used 'men' who felt compelled to find a common enemy in you, has nothing whatsoever to do with you.  @h4_explosive Speaking of messing up, I wonder if you'll choose to own up to your pejorative remarks, your highly presumptive prejudices and ever see fit to pull the plank out of your eye prior to straining out gnats while swallowing elephants.  Before we question another's character, we'd better have honest answers that will explain our own. 

No one here pays for the guy's membership nor is so ruefully entitled to adjudicate over what he posts or when he posts.  Give the guy kudos for remaining mostly silent in the company of a few Pharisaically and seemingly beyond reproach recalcitrants.  Man, this herd mentality was never remotely up for discussion during all times I was at a temporary duty station.  Let's all get along and cease majoring on the minor.  

Go Practice, Randy!

 

captaintugwash

"he has the right by the rules of chess, yes, nobody denies that. same as a football team has by the rules of football the right to use reckless fouls on the other team's best players as a way to break up the rhythm of the other team."

 

This analogy is rated approx 700

 

No, football teams don't have the right to "foul" the opponents, hence the word "foul", ie "an unfair or invalid act of play".

 

Bad sportsmanship in football that is perfectly legal might perhaps be taking the ball around the keeper, stopping the ball on the line, getting down on your hands and knees and heading it in. Or perhaps passing it between three players in a triangle while one player chases the ball, and those who are passing it keep sticking their tongues out every time they succeed in passing it past the defender.

 

But definitely not fouls, because white is not making "unfair or invalid actions".

cfour_explosive
Enderman1323 wrote:
h4_explosive wrote:
MickinMD wrote:

Your opponent wasn't "showboating," he was trying to humiliate you as much as possible. What a jerk!

he only wanted to humilliate him in order to show him that he should have resigned a long time ago, which is absolutely correct. the fact that he got lucky with a stalemate doesn't change that at all

I'm sorry? Did I say anything about the stalemate?

What's that? No

Then don't bring it up

You only refute an argument I never made because you know the one I did make is too strong for you to refute.

errrm  sorry, are you a bit stupid? I wasn't even quoting you lol

vantangler

GG.  I do the same thing.  your opponent done f'd up. Good playing by you, poor play from opponent.

Ziggy_Zugzwang

If real life was like chess, General Custer might have been able to declare a draw at the Little Big Horn at some stage...

MagdeburgThePianist

 Wow, that's what he gets lol

 

Ziggy_Zugzwang
ilovesmetuna wrote:
now that's what i call food for thought! about time someone came up with a plan for saving hopeless situations! absolutely brilliant work, ziggy!!!! that deserves a lifetime free membership.

 

Thanks my friend happy.png

supware

I would've gone to make coffee at around move 40 and let him wait wink.png

captaintugwash

Testing, Union Jack replaced with St George's Cross...

 

edit - yeah

Alarmbeige

That is the correct punishment for arrogance.grin.png

Sports_Maniac

People who are saying OP was showing bad sportsmanship, just because you're obviously losing doesn't mean you have to give up. You can still win on time. That's not bad sportsmanship, it's just grit.

supware
Sports_Maniac wrote:

People who are saying OP was showing bad sportsmanship, just because you're obviously losing doesn't mean you have to give up. You can still win on time. That's not bad sportsmanship, it's just grit.

He didn't lose. 40+ moves in a completely and utterly lost position and he still drew! That's the point he was making

supware
Aizen89 wrote:

I'm not going to lie.  I've done that to people before.  I've also screwed up doing it before.  I usually only do it when the person I'm playing bad-mouthed me.  

That sounds fine by me!  I guess it's 100% a matter of taste, which is the reason it's so controversial.  I've seen GM Aman Hambleton do it on a livestream before and it was so entertaining I just coundn't feel sorry for the poor ****

supware
ilovesmetuna wrote:
given the psychology of the kind of people that play chess, i honestly can't figure why the saloons in those spaghetti westerns were not filled with people playing chess while the hookers watched in their frilly dresses.

They were - you just have to be perverse enough to notice them