It was a drawn endgame. YOU cheated your opponent out of rating points. Go back to garbage collecting flagger.
You mean the rook?
OP is a troll. End of discussion.
I flag and I'm proud of it. I've lost count of the amount of games that are close with about 3 seconds left and I do unprotected checks or attacks hoping for a blunder or hoping they stumble on time. I'd say atleast a quarter of my winning moves are of that variety and should I feel bad about it? Hell no I shouldn't, if anything I'm handing my opponent the win on the plate by blundering a queen and if they can think under that time pressure then fair play to them, most people around my level can't do.
Using time is another challenge in chess if you are in a tournament. Don't forget that sometimes you can win with time too nobody knows. it is both a choice if you use time you play worse but may win with time and if you dont care time and concantrate on the game you can win with mate
Could have fooled me
Ever heard? Bullet isn't really chess. It's there for fun and time is the most important factor... So how many times ave you flagged?
Ever heard? Bullet isn't really chess. It's there for fun and time is the most important factor... So how many times ave you flagged?
As Alekhine said, the clock is part of the game.
But to claim that time is the most important factor, even in bullet, is to ignore the reality that the best bullet players in the world are Naka, Carlsen, and other top GMs. If the clock was really that important, you'd have video gamers at the top of the bullet leader boards.
If blitz chess is chess on speed, bullet chess is chess on crack. But it's still chess.
Ever heard? Bullet isn't really chess. It's there for fun and time is the most important factor... So how many times ave you flagged?
As Alekhine said, the clock is part of the game.
But to claim that time is the most important factor, even in bullet, is to ignore the reality that the best bullet players in the world are Naka, Carlsen, and other top GMs. If the clock was really that important, you'd have video gamers at the top of the bullet leader boards.
If blitz chess is chess on speed, bullet chess is chess on crack. But it's still chess.
You are right. But I mean that the clock is much bigger factor. Also if you look at player like Naka he plays for a time advantage. But yes it still is chess, just more with the clock.
Winning on time, when losing on points, is massively satisfying.
It's used to be weaker players against a higher rated opponent would try and complicate a position to force the opponent to eat up his clock. But increment stopped both that and adjurned games.
Nowadays, people win on time because the opponent lost track of how much time has, or the nefarious reason that they can't win the game, so they leave their computer and let their clock run down in order to inconvenience their opponent.
The opponent is forced to sit and watch the clock run down because the sore loser will make a single move when they get close to flagging just to see if their opponent got bored and left the computer. That type of behavior should be considered abusive if the player is on the verge of a forced mate.
who are flaggers?
FLAGGER: a person who lets his time run out in a losing or clearly lost game.
Often they will move at some point, usually with less than 2 minutes on their clock in the hope that the opponent wandered away from the computer and forgot about the game.
I'm not bothered by flaggers, they won within both the scope and spirit of the rules; not an issue whatsoever.
Agreed.