When your opponent severely blunders, does the W lose it’s value to you?

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Avatar of Zjlm1015
I can tell you that when my opponent THROWS the game away, I count my lucky stripes and still walk away happy. No remorse or no guilt about the fashion of winning.
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Its* in the title my bad.
Avatar of canadian_rt

A win is a win, yes, but when you start losing a lot immediately afterwards, the game you won no longer feels like a proper win

Avatar of king5minblitz119147

i prefer to win in a struggle, not by the other guy slipping on a banana peel, or worse things.

Avatar of Tdrev

all games are won due to some kind of blunder. its the only way to win in chess, and if your opponent blundered in a winning position, it means you must have blundered first

Avatar of llama47

Feeling guilty and the game losing value are two different things.

I never feel guilty, but especially if the blunder is early in the game, sure, it can feel like I wasted my time playing i.e. a valueless win.

Avatar of practiceO

Nah, if you blunder, then it's entirely your fault. They still have to convert the win or even find the blunder if it's a complex move sequence. 

Avatar of jtmccann15
When I play OTB I usually let people take back their blunders. I don’t enjoy winning like that I like to earn it through my own “cleverness”...not through my opponents blunder
Avatar of chessmaster7667
Yea I always blunder my opponents always win
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Avatar of PGAHume

I'm waiting for them to blunder; otherwise how am I ever going to win?

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jtmccann15 wrote:
When I play OTB I usually let people take back their blunders. I don’t enjoy winning like that I like to earn it through my own “cleverness”...not through my opponents blunder

Going to totally Geek out here, but reminds me of the scene in the movie 'TROY', when achilles is fighting Hector, Hector trips on the stone and Achilles says, "Get up, Prince of Troy, I wont let a stone take my glory." I do it as well in more personal settings especially if im the better player.

Avatar of llama47

I had one guy come in a few minutes late for our OTB tournament game. He was breathing hard like he'd ran from the parking lot or something. He sits down and blunders a whole piece in the opening.

He apologized to me a few times during the game heh.

I was having a bad tournament, so I was just happy for a round where I could rest and get a free win tongue.png

Avatar of se4sons

the sportsman thing to do is offer a draw

Avatar of KamikazeJohnson

It depends on the game, but yes, the win will often feel unearned if the blunder is bad enough.

Avatar of EscherehcsE

It's sort of like dirty money - it's still money.