Unpleasant otb incidents

I played OTB tournaments during the late 1970s in England. It wasn't much better then.
Shaking hands before the game was a ritual performed by many. It allowed a minor interlude, an alleviator of stress. After this honourable gesture, many tried to gain an edge by grunting, groaning, sighing with derision, picking their nose, burping, and even farting loudly until the game ended, once more if you were lucky a noble handshake or a scathing look and grumble of contempt.

speaking of sighing... My GOD!!! Urgh.

is sighing considered rude in chess cause I sigh a lot for no reason all the time

Sighing REALLY LOUDLY

like 

MAN

i yawn when im bored

otb chess bores me

needless to say my opponents play very aggressive sometimes

i feel bad for the people who took the SAT with me cause I was just sighing my way through the non-calculator math section

That’s so wholesome

what

thats so nice of you

seriously

wow that makes me like you a lot more

This one time I was like 10 and I was playing this 7 year old who was much worse at chess than me

And I hung my queen and his face lit up and I was like shoot I can’t lose this

So I moved my queen back and said “I was just testing if you would see” and he yelled “no you moved there!!”

And I was like “yeah lol I was testing you” and he started yelling loudly and then he started crying

Chess with your brother is fun (Don’t worry we’re actually on pretty good terms right now that was like 5 years ago hehe)

When I had mate in a few moves and accidentally touched a piece that led to a draw  FML

 

Strategy to get chess rating: Act super depressed and hope your opponent will take pity on you.

Strategy to make people to like you: Take pity on people who are depressed even if its self harm

Aza being too nice moment

noooooooo

its cute when aza does that

My first OTB tournament I played a 7 round tournament in two days so first day was 5 games then we merged with the 3-4 day players on the 5th evening round that day after playing round 1-4 earlier at a faster time control. In my round 5 game was the first I played a 2 hour first 40 moves then 1 hour SD. My opponent saw I was an unrated kid and played confidently and quickly and eventually hung a piece early on the game; he got up from the table and left the hall… never to return. Unsure what to do, I hung around the hall watching others games until my opponents clock flagged. I looked confused on what to do and a player sitting next to my game hailed a TD and told him I was unrated and new but he thought I’d like to claim a win by time out.

My second OTB tournament a guy tried to claim I touched a piece and had to capture it when I clearly said “adjust” before touching his off centered knight (he kept putting his pieces near/crossing the edge of the squares all game) and even hailed a TD- then three players nearby started accusing my opponent of lying and trying to intimidate a kid and one guy told the TD he wanted to lodge a complaint of that guy distracting others and remove our game from the hall, and my opponent lost his nerve and started yelling so the TD actually dragged him out into the hall for a few minutes and when he came back he never said a word and finished the game. He lost. His neighbor next to him loudly congratulated me on an amazing game taking down “uncle jackass” and the TD had to come back in and remove the two because they began yelling at each other. Apparently my opponent had won the round before against his friend using the “touch move” trick forcing his friend to lose his queen and the game.

Another tournament we were using analog clocks and I had went to the restroom and upon returning my clock was ticking even though my opponent hadn’t moved; he claimed I had never hit my clock but a neighboring player said “you hit the clock as soon as he was out of sight.” I had an hour ahead of him so I did nothing. Apparently the next round his opponent involved the TD after faking he left to the restroom and saw him hit the clock like he had against me. No idea what the TD did.

People are shady in big prize tournaments, it’s why I now avoid them. I’m there to play chess and have a good time.

first incident. lmao. he just got up and left.

why didn't you call a td lol

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once i got slapped in the face by my opponent just because i took a last hope pawn with enpassant..

thing is; she asked me first, if i knew that move.. i just stayed silent.

I think td can make your opponent forfeit in that case