Who's the douchebag here?

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Lou-for-you
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:

Oh my the word douchebag!  Someone get me the smelling salts because I do believe I have the vapors! 

Well, it is not a kind word imho :

Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching—a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an enema and a vaginal douche.

Krestez
Lou-for-you wrote:
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:

Oh my the word douchebag!  Someone get me the smelling salts because I do believe I have the vapors! 

Well, it is not a kind word imho :

Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bag is a piece of equipment for douching—a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an enema and a vaginal douche.

I had no idea the word was that dirty lol, since I'm not a native speaker.

JG27Pyth

Your opponent played by the rules and won. This annoyed you to the point of starting a thread about it. Based on that evidence I feel confident answering your question. 

You. 



bean_Fischer
Krestez wrote:

Am I mentally ill or is this site full of douchebags?

Actually you just don't accept you lose on time and bad connection. That's hard to swallow. It's bad for you stomach.

I will accept a draw only if it doesn't affect my position in a tournament. I will keep on playing if a win will take me to the top.

If it's a friendly game, I will accept a draw.

Is it wrong if I play for my own interest and not my opponent's?

Krestez
bean_Fischer wrote:
Krestez wrote:

Am I mentally ill or is this site full of douchebags?

Actually you just don't accept you lose on time and bad connection. That's hard to swallow. It's bad for you stomach.

I will accept a draw only if it doesn't affect my position in a tournament. I will keep on playing if a win will take me to the top.

If it's a friendly game, I will accept a draw.

Is it wrong if I play for my own interest and not my opponent's?

It was an unrated game, so acting like this (not accepting the draw just for the sake of winning) is pointless.

Lou-for-you

No it is not pointless. Many games are won or lost on time. Visit any chess club and you will see players banging their clocks in the hope that the opponent runs out of time before they do. Just accept the rules and live with it.

Krestez
Snowyqueen wrote:
Krestez wrote:

It was an unrated game, so acting like this (not accepting the draw just for the sake of winning) is pointless.

Ha. 

So it's pointless for him to play to win, but not pointless for you to endlessly moan about the result?

I don't moan about the result! I don't moan for any game on the internet, especially unrated. I'm mad at his behaviour. God, how many times do I have to explain?!

Annabella1

Why is he/she a  douchebag?  just because he/she didn't accept your request?  is this a joke?  how old are you???  its a choice to accept or not....am I right?   how about respecting the other person's decision?  even if he/she is losing....is still a choice.  The one acting like a douchebag is you....sorry :/ 

Lou-for-you

Wow, miss Piggy seems to explain it better than all of us together. I hope it is clear nowSurprised

TennesseeThunder

In a rated game if i feel both my opponent and i have played a good well-fought game I may accept a draw... But i also may not accept the draw.  But what i won't do is play a 30 minute game unrated.  And i certainly won't start a thread callin' my opponent a d-bag because he played by the rules...lol wtf Really?

Annabella1
Lou-for-you wrote:

Wow, miss Piggy seems to explain it better than all of us together. I hope it is clear now

Don't mess with a pig.....oink oink  hahahahahaha

EscherehcsE

@OP, well, you asked the question, "Who's the douchebag here?"

You also asked for opinions, and here's mine: The longer this thread continues, the more obvious it is that you're the douchebag.

Krestez

Well, I guess enough opinions were shared. I guess it would be wise to end this. It's already starting degenerating. As a conclusion: I'm the douchebag. Fine.

Lou-for-you

We all are. Just be careful with the intestinal bacteria. Wink

Checkmatealot

It's the taking part that counts.

TheGreatOogieBoogie
Snowyqueen wrote:
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:

Black had winning chances with 43...h5 as the passed pawn is a huge advantage, and white needs to spend a move getting the knight away.  43...h5 44.Ne5,h4 45.Ke3,Bc6 and resources are diverted away from the kingside and the black king is closer to the pawns, the black h-pawn is the winning diversion for black. 

 



The fact that there is debate about the ultimate nature of the position justifies the decision to play on in time trouble. Once you're in time trouble, it's not about what the theoretically best defense gets you - it's about what you can devliver in the time you left yourself. 

If the position was trivially won, with no realistic chances to blow it, that's one thing. But so long as the player can set traps or challenges for his opponent that take time to figure out, there's no problem with playing on. 

I don't think white should have resigned but the advantage changed sides quite a bit in that game.  Yeah, black had many chances to blow it, and did in the actual game by falling into equality.  Even GMs make big mistakes, especially in time trouble, hell, I recently looked at a Judit Polgar game (that was equal for nearly all of it) and her opponent blundered into forced checkmate at the end due to time trouble:



bean_Fischer
Krestez wrote:

Well, I guess enough opinions were shared. I guess it would be wise to end this. It's already starting degenerating. As a conclusion: I'm the douchebag. Fine.

Look, your opponent had nothing to do with your bad connection. So why do you call him name?

You should forget this and get some drinks.

If the game had an arbiter, he/she would order you to play on or you were disqualified.

If you still don't get it, there is no way we can explain.

Likhit1

Even if he/she was a Douchebag,WTF are you gonna do about it?Report him?Just get over it already.

PhoenixTTD

Failing to accept a draw in a drawn position, especially for those of us below master level, is much different than not resigning when your opponent has an overwhelming advantage.  I recently had a game that I went in the endgame down a pawn.  Against a master it was clearly lost, but my opponent still had to execute.  Rather than resigning right a way, I played a few moves to see if he knew what he was doing.  I was not impressed, and I have recently been working on tactics and endgame.  So I played on and won.  Endgames are part of the game and if someone wants to work on their technique, see if you know how to execute, or just take advantage of a long endgame and a time advantage that is perfectly acceptable.  It's not his fault you were going to flag and it's not his job to bail you out.

Krestez
bean_Fischer wrote:
Krestez wrote:

Well, I guess enough opinions were shared. I guess it would be wise to end this. It's already starting degenerating. As a conclusion: I'm the douchebag. Fine.

Look, your opponent had nothing to do with your bad connection. So why do you call him name?

You should forget this and get some drinks.

If the game had an arbiter, he/she would order you to play on or you were disqualified.

If you still don't get it, there is no way we can explain.

I said we're ending this. Stop arguing with me. I know the guy didn't break any rules. But I still think what he did denotes lack of fair-play and nobody can't change my opinion about that. But people answered my question and it seems I'm the douchebag. I have to live with it, right?