Why Do People Block You After Losing a Game?

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Avatar of DaRonK1

I’ve noticed a frustrating trend where opponents block me immediately after I win a match. It’s usually after a completely normal game with no trash talk or engine use. Does this happen to anyone else? It feels like some players just can't handle losing and use the block button as an emotional shield to protect their ego or avoid a rematch. Is it just pure salt, or is there some other strategy behind it? Let me know your thoughts!!!!


Avatar of Fr3nchToastCrunch

At the risk of sounding like Kramnik here, I only block people after a game if they were obviously cheating. And I mean really obvious. The extremely long pause when they're completely lost, followed by them playing like a god — that obvious. For us non-cheaters, the only reason people would have to block us is because they're sore losers, or because we happened to play such a great game that it almost seems like we were cheating, even though we weren't.

Either way, take it as a compliment. You broke someone through legitimate play.

Avatar of DaRonK1
Fr3nchToastCrunch wrote:

At the risk of sounding like Kramnik here, I only block people after a game if they were obviously cheating. And I mean really obvious. The extremely long pause when they're completely lost, followed by them playing like a god — that obvious. For us non-cheaters, the only reason people would have to block us is because they're sore losers, or because we happened to play such a great game that it almost seems like we were cheating, even though we weren't.

Either way, take it as a compliment. You broke someone through legitimate play.

yeah but it was an bullet game

Avatar of Fr3nchToastCrunch

In that case, the block in question probably falls under the "sore loser" category. A bullet cheater would be both even more obvious than a rapid cheater and quite easy to flag as well, assuming you don't slip up. It's totally impractical.

Avatar of MrChatty

Find one of their friends and kindly ask them to kindly ask your opponents

Avatar of turnoffthefaucet
I block players who don’t resign in obviously losing positions. It is their right to keep playing of course, just as it is my right to block them.
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turnoffthefaucet wrote:
I block players who don’t resign in obviously losing positions. It is their right to keep playing of course, just as it is my right to block them.

what if they are just trying to learn?

Avatar of Lilyfairfax

Why do you care if a nobody blocks you lol.

Avatar of GeckoSoloYT

#8 It can show they are a sore loser

Avatar of Daniel2040

Sometimes when i play against someone who is 200 rating higher and i win they block me, but if i win against someone same rating as me, most of the time they dont block me

Avatar of chesssblackbelt

Most common reason is they think you're cheating so blocked and reported. But dw you don't get banned just because someone reports you

Avatar of thereturnofthesnowfox

I got blocked by someone after I beat them twice in a daily chess group, unfortunately for them blocking someone doesn't prevent you being paired up with them in another group, fortunately for them they earned some pride back winning 1 and losing 1, still blocked though.

Avatar of chesssblackbelt

I got blocked by someone after he beat me 3-1. He blocked as soon as I won 1 game lol

Avatar of Cale302

unrelated to this topic but i had to go megamind mode for a brief moment, a pawn was so close to promoting but i managed to checkmate BEFORE he was able to.