Unpleasant otb incidents

lmao

maybe two years back I was a 1000 otb facing off against an 800 in the first round, I came into the endgame clearly won a full minor piece up but then my opponent started calling the td for really stupid things like "omg td he wrote his move before it was played" "omg td he wrote my move before I played it(that move was forced btw)" and eventually because he called the td so much the td just said it was a draw because he had to keep coming there and I was still clearly up. I got really pissed at that because he was being such a poor sport and actually cried for a few minutes

but it's all good I guess I went 3.5/4 in that tournament hehe

His father had no reasons to be mad

you think he'd listen to that

the dude intentionally tried to get away with something better than a loss he wasn't just trying to play by what he thought were rules

eh

I am in 5th grade rn :/

Same

man the place where i am there are many weird dude like this one is the kicker who kickes you on your foot while playing the game 

I haven't had a situation that drastic, but there had been moments which were equivalent to giving oneself a face-palm.

Many years ago, I was rated around 1600 plus in a local rating system (which has since been abolished, and my FIDE rating is 0) when I played a 1200 young kid. He was holding the White pieces. At the time I had not much idea how the rating system worked (I eventually realised at a much later time that I obtained a decent initial rating because I had won higher-rated players in a previous tournament in which I was of course not aware of the rating system).

I underestimated the 1200 young player. I had not realised that a 1200 young player would be those who had excelled in preceding tournaments and would continue to rise up the ranks. I overestimated by ability, overstretched for a win and ended up losing. When my opponent landed his two rooks on the seventh rank, I knew it was time to move on to the next game. He proceeded to give a check to my king on c8 by moving Rb7-Rc7+ (the other rook was on a7). Somehow, I suddenly realised that I had a bishop on h2 (there were pawns on h3 and g2 so it was easy to miss the bishop. That dramatic moment saw me capture the hanging rook and my opponent soon lost the game. He felt very sad and sighed after losing the rook.

In another tournament, this time I was the one who sighed after losing a game against a 2246 rated player on board one of the tournament. I had successfully launched a Nc2+ fork on the e1 king and a1 rook after he miscalculated a move and soon found myself in a winning position close to the endgame, but in which it was not immediately obvious to proceed. I failed to find one very important winning move when I had 2 minutes left on the board and proceeded to lose the game. After the game, he showed me that I could have won the game by a sacrifice of my queen since he had back rank issues to settle also. Of course, even after he showed me, I realised that I would have not noticed the move anyway.

Well I have my first OTB on July 10th so I’ll let y’all know if anything happens.

I have another experience that wasn't unpleasant, but pretty stressful. So on my third tournament my opponent and I are the last in the playing room and the TD comes over and says "Hurry up" and sets our time down to 3 minutes. It was SO stressful especially on my third tournament to have to blitz an endgame, but I won anyways and chilled on the fourth round.

GOLD FORUM

Kids usually start crying: I'd rather have an angry adult.

GOLD FORUM

Oh I just remembered another good one from OTB, this was probably my most challenging tournament and it was the third round of the tournament. My opponent hadn't showed up in forever and his clock had already lost 25 minutes. The TD came over and said something along the lines of wait a few minutes. The guy finally showed up when I was in the bathroom. I come back and his clock is reset.. I was thinking of calling the TD but I wanted to crush the living hell out of him and he can't lose on time if that's gonna happen. It was a tougher game than I thought it would be, but I won in the endgame and it was probably my best OTB game yet

best of luck. If you have ever only played online, don't have too many expectations on your online rating matching OTB. You will probably be unrated, so you will be put into the lower group, maybe below 1000 or 1200 and you will be chuckling inside thinking, you got this! Then the pairings come out for round 1 and you are against someone rated 938 and the internal chuckling increases. And you sit at the board and your opponent arrives and it is a cute as a button 8 year old girl and she climbs up on her chair and you feel really bad for the crushing she is about to experience at such a tender age. Then on move 12, she kneels on her chair so she can reach your side of the board and delivers a checkmate you never had a clue was coming. Now you are sitting there thinking, "wtf just happened?". In round 2 you play someone that lost their first game as well and are also rated 900+, and this time you make to the end game, but their skills are considerably better than yours, and you lose, again. 

Bottom line is: don't get carried away with your online rating and how you have even beaten people 300 points higher, just ignore your online rating when comparing to someone's OTB rating and just play your best chess each and every move.

In 45 years of OTB play, I have had 1 "incident".  My opponent refused to shake hands when the game started.  I went to his coach, explained the situation.  His coach walked him out into the hallway.  When he came back he apologized and shook hands. 

In 45 minutes of online play i can encounter many rude people. 

Just take it for what it is.  Being anonymous does things to some people.

i saw a creepy guy harrass a touched-SA addict (?) woman in a mall to where she picked up a castle and hurled it at him. IT was one a those big wooden ones ! they called Mr. Policeman and he took her away. sad that the real trubblemaker got away w/ that one.

bro who are you why did I even make up my mind to come to this forum lol