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What's the most annoying thing in chess?
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En passant. I miss it almost 100% lol
The really bad kind of blunder where your brain just stops working. I lost a key game in the state Women's Championship because I played RxP and my opponent instantly responded RxR. I sat there staring, like, can she do that? Yes, she could; I was down a rook for nothing, and of course I lost. So frustrating! And you know it will happen again sooner or later, it always does.
When your opponent decides to send every pawn down the board instead playing a real endgame. Drives me nuts!
Another one: when your opponent opens by moving the queen to attack every angle until you get your defense set up. This is a waste of time and it usually ends up with opponent losing the queen. OR - when the opponent opens with the sole objective of taking your queen. Another waste of time. Don't these people understand that the goal of chess is checkmate the KING???
There are so many possible answers.
- Opponents playing objectively bad moves in order to make the position more "complicated," and thus trying to win on time (especially common in bullet)
- Opponents refusing to accept a draw (I had one game that went to the 50-move stalemate despite my multiple attempts to offer a draw)
- The Englund Gambit. Whenever someone plays it against me, I get pissed off. It's a bad opening that people play in shorter time controls just for the sake of a few traps. It's just gimmicks and cheese. I hate that I've actually memorized the lines at this point. Of course, I'm assuming that only low-rated players on my level actually use this opening.
There's not enough time. It's about two hours
Oct 23, 2020
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#30
Redstoneking37 wrote:
When my opponent starts making 90% pawn moves and advancing them like an iron wall. It is easy to break through but takes lots of time and patience and when you don't have that it gets really annoying because you know you're better than them but they're winning.
Incredibly annoying in a blitz game I agree. You know their moves are awful, you know you'd have no trouble figuring out what to do in a game with long time controls, but with only three minutes on the clock you struggle to break through, then get frustrated, blunder and lose. Infuriating.
Flagged while up a lot of material.
While waiting for your opponent to make their next move you find the perfect move that you should have made earlier.
Defensive players are annoying. They don't try and make anything themselves and stop you from trying to create something so the game is usually won by whoever is flagged first.
stale mate
Another irritation:
When you move, you have not let go of the mouse, and when you approach the square you want to move to, the piece won't go. When you try to move it back to the starting position, it just stays on the wrong square and it is your opponent's turn. At first, I thought I had a sticky mouse, but I'm thinking it's chess.com app because I don't have this problem on any other websites or apps.
This is really irksome when it's the queen. Two players so far have acknowledged this problem and didn't take my queen. But the rest of them simply take advantage. When I play, I usually hesitate to take the queen if the opponent has a lower rank. Plus, when you move a piece and place the opponent's queen in jeopardy, it is good manners to say en guarde. But no-one does this on chess.com.
Missclicks and positions where you know your opponent makes bad moves but you cant fond a way to punish them instantly. Also rude opponents, but I guess we cant avoid them.
that guy who speaks too much
Oct 29, 2022
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#39
at a tourney rn and when i was playing people were making tons of noise in the skittles room which was right behind my back.
ugh
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