What do you feel about players that do perpetual checks when they are losing?

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Chessflyfisher

Better to draw than lose!

RangerAPF04
It’s just part of the game, and you have to take precautions against it. It is a strategy that is well within the rules of the game, no matter how annoying it is. You may as well get annoyed by the rule of stalemate when you obviously have the advantage.
IAmPomi

If there are any perpetual checks, then they're not losing.

NikkiLikeChikki
I really want to see a perpetual check. Like forever... until the end of time. I want to see Naka and Magnus moving that queen and king back and forth forever!!!! If they don’t, can you really call it perpetual?
Karbonade_friet
You were never winning. You were trapped.
Elroch

Think of it this way. The implicit aim of chess is to capture the opposing king. If you are 100% occupied with your king not being captured, how well are you doing? That's where you are when your opponent has a perpetual check.

the_nub_of_nopknight
Hmm
BurnedOak

But HEY, its still a game. For most of us no reason to be pissed about yourself or others... just my 5 cents.....!!

 

Terminator-T800

I think it's all part of the game. Anyway you can find a way to win or draw without cheating is Ok. it's the name of the game at the end of the day.

blueemu

If they have a perpetual check available, then they aren't losing.

assassin3752
MaryandJuana wrote:

Say you're beating someone and aren't that far away from a mate.  Say he somehow breaks through your defense with a queen and begins checking you all over the board.  What do you feel about this?  I was winning a game pretty handidly and my opponent sacrificed a pawn in order to give his queen open space to check me.  It was in a position in the board where I didn't have a shield for my king and so he could have checked me as many times as he wanted.  I think it's pretty cheap. 

they're not losing if they have a perpetual check lol

and it's your fault for not spotting the reason behind his pawn sac

astronomer111

If anyone needed proof that chess players are idiots this thread is it. 7 1/2 years of people talking about perpetual checks. Kind of ironic really.

assassin3752
astronomer111 wrote:

If anyone needed proof that chess players are idiots this thread is it. 7 1/2 years of people talking about perpetual checks. Kind of ironic really.

so you're saying magnus is an idiot?

DrSpudnik
darkbrah7654 wrote:
astronomer111 wrote:

If anyone needed proof that chess players are idiots this thread is it. 7 1/2 years of people talking about perpetual checks. Kind of ironic really.

so you're saying magnus is an idiot?

I think he means people who yak on about perpetual check form the idiot bloc among chess players. I seriously doubt that many players commenting here are over 2200 OTB, and those who are are on the right side of this one.

greypenguin

dont blame the check for a fork

greypenguin

in the same way dont blame the perpetual for the draw

rychessmaster1

they arent losing anymore then

Gambitiodic

Finding perpetual check when in a losing position is an irreproachably acceptable strategy. "Perpetual check" is one of the puzzle themes! 

rychessmaster1

if you allow a perpet in a winning position you are no longer winning

your own fault for missing it

assassin3752
rychessmaster1 wrote:

if you allow a perpet in a winning position you are no longer winning

your own fault for missing it

exactly what im saying lol