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205thsq · 2013-06-11T08:15:18-07:00

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 t

GM JMB2010

Jun 11, 2013

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#21

205thsq wrote:

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 :)

lol!

macer75

Jun 11, 2013

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#22

205thsq wrote:

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 :)

lol pest comment I've seen today

Wasp_Enterprises

Jun 11, 2013

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#23

You have an unstoppable mate in four with 15 seconds left and someone important knocks on the door.
You're winning, decline a draw, and somehow end up being mated.
Fool's Mate.
Scholars Mate.

winerkleiner

Jun 11, 2013

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#24

ajax333221 wrote:

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

Now that's my kind of cat!

philtheking1981

Jun 12, 2013

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#25

hehe 205thsq that was hilarious! :D

varelse1

Jun 12, 2013

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#26

Wasp_Enterprises wrote:

You have an unstoppable mate in four with 15 seconds left and someone important knocks on the door.

Not even the President would be that important!

philtheking1981

Jun 12, 2013

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#27

varelse1 wrote:

Wasp_Enterprises wrote:

You have an unstoppable mate in four with 15 seconds left and someone important knocks on the door.

Not even the President would be that important!

I agree varelse1, let them wait! If you're that important the President won't mind ;)

YancyAlmeida

Jun 12, 2013

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#28

Practicly..i would hate to have to sit there for several weeks or months staring at a drawn game. A close second...although i dont play more than 10 minute games, is having to wait for the 30 minute timer to go down

dzikus

Jun 12, 2013

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#29

Failing to checkmate with B+N due to 50 moves rule (this happened to the WC A.Ushenina) - what a shame (my 1800 rated friend launches this checkmate in 2 minutes at most)
Playing a long game against a strong NM (rated FIDE 2400) and losing K+R vs. K+B endgame by falling in one of zugzwang positions which are possible there (it happend to me once)
Maintaining a completely equal position (evaluated not more than +/-0,3 at any point by houdini) for 39 moves against a strong NM (rated FIDE 2370) and blundering in the last move before time control to a non-defendable loss (that happened to me twice)

macer75

Jun 12, 2013

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#30

varelse1 wrote:

Wasp_Enterprises wrote:

You have an unstoppable mate in four with 15 seconds left and someone important knocks on the door.

Not even the President would be that important!

The President definitely isn't that important, but some people are.

asadinator

Jun 23, 2013

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#31

You have played a beautiful chess game, where every move you made you feel is one of the top computer moves, which you later confirm with engine. You are in a completely winning positions against a strong opponent. Then you simply blunder a piece and lose the game.
And you do that 2 games in a row.

205thsq

Jun 23, 2013

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#32

CumminsTomic wrote:

You have played a beautiful chess game, where every move you made you feel is one of the top computer moves, which you later confirm with engine. You are in a completely winning positions against a strong opponent. Then you simply blunder a piece and lose the game. And you do that 2 games in a row.

add "in a correspondance game" and yeah that would be pretty bad

varelse1

Jun 24, 2013

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#33

205thsq wrote:

CumminsTomic wrote:

You have played a beautiful chess game, where every move you made you feel is one of the top computer moves, which you later confirm with engine. You are in a completely winning positions against a strong opponent. Then you simply blunder a piece and lose the game. And you do that 2 games in a row.

add "in a correspondance game" and yeah that would be pretty bad

then add "Versus a player 300 points higher rated than you!"

Been there, done that.

Bur_Oak

Jun 24, 2013

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#34

May not be the worst, but I had the following happen recently. Started a 3 day per move correspondence game with a player 100 points higher than me. Got a winnable position as his rating climbed to +130 points. Then, his rating started to drop. He won six or eight games, but resigned 19. Rating now about equal. Next, he begins to time out on games. Loses FIFTY that way before timing out in my game. Result: I get a win on time against someone rated 300 points less. Oh, joy.

varelse1

Jun 24, 2013

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Bur_Oak wrote:

May not be the worst, but I had the following happen recently. Started a 3 day per move correspondence game with a player 100 points higher than me. Got a winnable position as his rating climbed to +130 points. Then, his rating started to drop. He won six or eight games, but resigned 19. Rating now about equal. Next, he begins to time out on games. Loses FIFTY that way before timing out in my game. Result: I get a win on time against someone rated 300 points less. Oh, joy.

LOL

Sounds like your opponent fell off the wagon, started drinking again.

He timed out because they don't have internet in detox!

Bur_Oak

Jun 24, 2013

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#36

varelse1 wrote:

Bur_Oak wrote:

May not be the worst, but I had the following happen recently. Started a 3 day per move correspondence game with a player 100 points higher than me. Got a winnable position as his rating climbed to +130 points. Then, his rating started to drop. He won six or eight games, but resigned 19. Rating now about equal. Next, he begins to time out on games. Loses FIFTY that way before timing out in my game. Result: I get a win on time against someone rated 300 points less. Oh, joy.

LOL

Sounds like your opponent fell off the wagon, started drinking again.

He timed out because they don't have internet in detox!

He's now playing 60 online games. His rating had peaked at 1906 -- but 52 of his current opponents are under 1600, at least 30 of which are under 1500. Can you say "sandbagging?"

AngeloPardi

Jun 24, 2013

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#37

Your opponent offer a draw in a complicated position. After long calculations, you come up with a winning line and play it.
Now in an easily won position, you move your rook, thinking you win his queen by force.
Then you realise his only legal move is to checkmate you.

Mainline_Novelty

Jun 24, 2013

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#38

AngeloPardi wrote:

Your opponent offer a draw in a complicated position. After long calculations, you come up with a winning line and play it.
Now in an easily won position, you move your rook, thinking you win his queen by force.
Then you realise his only legal move is to checkmate you.

Technically ...Qh5 and ...Qh3 are also legal.

varelse1

Jun 24, 2013

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#39

Ouch

ElKitch

Jun 24, 2013

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#40

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