What's worse?

What's worse?

• Playing a 5 day per move game where your opponent insists on playing one move always on the 5th day in a theoretically drawn position?
• In a 30 minute live game you crush your opponent with 29 and a half minutes left and they offer you a draw or they threaten to make you wait for them to time out?
• While you are slightly losing but deeply pondering your next move your much higher rated opponent resigns as if to say "eh... your'e boring me."?
• Your opponent is talking a lot of trash in the chat, and just as you start to win you start dishing it back, and then you blunder your queen?
• Getting knee deep in the finals of a long and hotly contested tournament with someone making suspeciously computer like moves?
• Forum trolls?

You missed the classic:

• Getting all excited because your opponent left his Queen hanging only to realize after the fact that you are completely screwed because you took it.
  
  

I have no problem with #3 and #6.

• the avatar above the above ?

• someone rated 500 starting a forum topic asking for analysis of their blitz game, after you spend an hour making suggestions they ask "does someone rated higher have any ideas?"

lol i've seen that quite a few times

When opponents tell you to hurry up and play, when it's already a 10 or 15 min game; although beating them into dust as a result of taking the time to think is VERY satisfying indeed. I usually tell them to have patience or resign :)

I hope you aren't talking about my avatar! >:O

• Whilst crushing philtheking1981 he starts to take forever to move and when you tell him to hurry up and play he says be patient or resign 

lol :)

• Playing 2 blindfold games in the same opening and you mix up the boards (I did that today and lost both ).

A classic:

• Declining a draw offer and then blundering a piece

• binblaster declines your draw offer then blunders a piece and you still lose on time 

That's my personal choice but howsabout..

• Just  making the opening move of a 3  min game  when suddenly hit  with the "oooh crap...I gotta go pain"

These are all good points :)

I remember when I could have instigated perpetual check on my opponent, but instead blundered and lost embarrasingly :/

• In a bullet game, your opponent has a mate in one move, and just to rub it in he offers a draw and makes the move just before you are able to accept it.

Heres a bad one:

- Fighting a long drawn out game a knight down, hoping for someway to draw somehow, with two minutes left late in the endgame, you realize you cannot only draw, but win! Your opponent will never see it coming! There is no stopping it--- Oops, connection failed........

• the sudden need to go poop while important game is being played

This might seem a bit naive of me so my apologies, but how would I know if I'm playing against a chess engine? Would I try to communicate with it and receive replies in binary or something? :p

oh that is so wrong

varelse1's might be even worse though... "connection fails" i cant believe i forgot that in the original post... those are so nasty

So is this the worst?

• In the final game of a long tournament your opponent has this avatar  you are only a few moves in when suddenly you are hit with the oh crap i've got to go pain. You comeback to several complaints from your opponent "like hurry up and play" and now you are under severe time pressure. With all their extra time your opponent starts typing a lot of trash talk. When you suddenly see his queen hanging you start talking trash back only to realize after the fact that you are completely screwed because you took it. Fighting a long drawn out game a knight down hoping to some how, some way, pull out a draw your opponent is making suspiciously computer like moves, when he starts to take forever to move you start to complain and he replies "Be patient or resign". After he gets into time trouble he offers a draw but you decline because you realize you cant only draw but win! Your opponent will never see it coming and there is no stopping it! A couple moves in you realize you have a perpetual as well so you play it 2 and a half times wasting a lot of your time torturing your opponent before you move in to position for mate in one. You decide that since he has talked so much trash, just to rub it in you are going to offer a draw and then before he can accept it, play the move. You offer the draw and then hurry to play the move when... oops! the connection failed. You rush to reboot hoping he took the draw and get back online just in time to see the last 2 seconds of your clock run out... you've lost. In your pain you look for sollace from your friends in the forum. You spend hours painstakingly posting in detail the wild events of your epic loss. Only to find none of them are online. You only have 1 attempt at a helpful response from a 500 rated player who says "You shouldnt have taken the Queen" and the rest of your thread has been hijacked by trolls mocking your pain.

Yup just sounds like another day on chess.com :)