What's the worst way you've lost a chess game?

I was in a tournament (in real life not chess.com) and my opponent cheated. I tried to tell a tournament director, he asked for witnesses, no one saw, and he let the cheater go. I lost many rating points. I'm still really mad!  

This didn't happen to me, but it's the worst way to lose a chess game that I ever witnessed:

I was playing in a tournament in Saint John, NB. It was raining outside, and there were a few spectators circulating around the playing hall... very likely, they just came in to get out of the rain.

A player (let's call him "White pieces") at the table next to mine had just played his King from g1 to h1, to get out of an awkward pin on the c5-g1 diagonal. His opponent made his reply, and it was White's move again.

A spectator wearing a heavy raincoat turned away from the game, and the corner of his coat clipped the White King (sitting on h1) and knocked it off the table. White pieces reached down to pick the King up and set it back on the board.

His opponent said "Touch move".

The tournament director upheld his claim. White pieces was forced to move his King, and the only available square was right back to g1... back into the pin on the diagonal.

White lost the game a few moves later; as much because the "touch move" incident had left him completely demoralized as because of the two wasted moves K(from g1)-h1 and then back to g1.

oof!

That is dum! that touch move thing

He should have appealed the touch-move thing as no reasonable TD would have ever made that ruling.

I agree that no REASONABLE person would have made this ruling... but unfortunately the FIDE rules are quite explicit.

First they explain the "J'adoube" rule. Then they go on to say that EXCEPT for "J'adoube" and for "clearly accidental contact", any touching of a piece must be interpreted as signifying intent to move it.

Check the rules out. They are remarkably harsh.

I read about a similar incident. I wasn't there but this is how the story went.

Last round of a local tournament is a 2000 guy and a master playing for 1st place. The master made an early blunder and is losing all game long. It goes into an endgame and the master starts pestering his opponent with repeated draw offers. Low on time, the 2000 guy blunders and now the position is a dead draw. The master condescendingly offers another draw, the 2000 guy says "fine" and swats his own king off the board in disgust and walks off.

The master claims the 2000 guy resigned by knocking over his king and records it as a win for himself. The 2000 guy protests and the TD asks spectators whether or not the 2000 guy knocked over his king, and whether there was a handshake after the draw offer. The TD upholds the win so the 2000 guy lost.

In both of these stories (the touch move and the fallen king) the opponent was a real piece of crap IMO. I'd never try to swindle points like that.

I was playing chess with this beautiful lady many years ago and I started to sing "You're my one, my all. my everything" in my deep baritone voice to get her in the mood for luuurve. She practically melted right there and then and we spent the rest of the night making sweet sweet love. I lost on time. That's not really got me though. When I woke up in the morning next to her I could see she had some stubble growing.

Not if you are just talking about seconds, and in my case, on an old analog clock. Even with a digital clock you would have to know the exact starting time, down to the second, and the exact ending time. If you have the latter, you probably have a witness.

Not exactly what the title of this thread asked for, but here's a *very* close call.....

B̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶a̶t̶z̶e̶r̶ (actually, scratch that, I still am a patzer)

Around 4 months ago, I was playing in some U1300 section  (Yes, I am a lot higher rated now) of a tournament. In the third round, I was playing against someone 300 points rated below me and won pretty quickly. This was the kind of tournament with lots and LOTS of people, so the arbiters didn't sign the scoresheet, or go over every single game -- especially not in our section. To record the result of your game, the arbiters had a print out of the pairings and you would simply write the result next to your name. My opponent *just so happened* to write down that he won the game, while in reality, I won the game. Fortunately, I am one of those people who double check and triple check that the results are recorded correctly, so I caught him right away. I called over the arbiter who checked my scoresheet to verify that I had won. I ended up placing second in that tournament, but I could very as easily have done a lot worse if I didn't catch him.

that IS harsh

Aman Hambleton has a video on Youtube about his greatest losses......

Ok