worst type of opponent to play against - Chess Forums - Page 4

trigs · 2016-01-20T10:47:42-08:00

recently played a live game on here against an opponent that constantly tried to offer and accept every single trade of pieces without any regard to whether it was beneficial or not. after a million trades, i ended up winning the game in a K+R v K+R endgame, but that's not the point. i

glamdring27

Jan 28, 2016

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#61

If I could choose to only allow requests for mouse slips then I would likely accept them, but I don't want all the other spurious requests so unfortunately for my opponents who make mouse slips they just have to accept them as part of online chess.

trigs

Jan 28, 2016

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#62

Poryg wrote:

glamdring27 wrote:

Definitely. Being used to chess.com I didn't ralise lichess had takebacks when I played there until someone requested one. I still won the game, but my immediate thought was "what is the point in us playing this game if you are just going to ask for a takeback when you make a bad move". Needless to say after that game I disabled takebacks.

I don't mind takebacks, but only in obvious mouse slips. I have granted two so far, never had any more requests though :)

i've had mouse slips before as well and now i almost never click and drag the pieces. i click piece and click square i want to move it to. much safer ;)

glamdring27

Jan 28, 2016

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#63

I've made numerous accidental moves by just clicking on pieces and squares, forgetting that it makes a move by doing that! I hung my Queen by doing that once and resigned immediately.

Poryg

Jan 28, 2016

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#64

On Android devices it doesn't really matter, when the display decides to malfunction, it makes slips regularly :)

pawn_dz

Jan 28, 2016

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#65

people can play chess in any way they want. no matter quick trades or trying to win in time,thats okay

NM SupremeTactician

Feb 6, 2016

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#66

nah

trigs

Feb 6, 2016

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#67

OnceUponaCheckmate wrote:

I would try some crazy sacrifices to make the game more fun.

i will totally do this sometimes when i'm just fooling around on live chess.

ilulzmetuna

Feb 6, 2016

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#68

worst opponents are the Elvis impersonators, especially when they don't look or sound a bit like him.

vincepaul

Feb 9, 2016

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#69

if you both ended up with the same material in endgame, he couldn't have been making unsound trades. a player who made thoughtless exchanges, as you imply, would not have survived your methodical play.

LastBlast

Oct 15, 2018

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#70

Well sometimes it's obvious that your opponent mouse slips or had a bad touch moment on their phone/tab. If you have a great game that both enjoy, then the takeback is actually quite nice to have.

reef58

Oct 15, 2018

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#71

trigs wrote:

question: is it strange for me to think that a chess forum should generally have better behaved members than other forums? i guess i kind of assumed chess would draw a more intelligent and open-minded group of people predominantly, but i guess i'm wrong.

i have more people blocked on this forum than any other one i have ever been on, and it's not even close.

You should try the tennis forums. A really cesspool. I was surprised.

DjonniDerevnja

Oct 19, 2018

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#72

Yesterday I was the worst opponent I restricted my opponent for more than 2 hours before I won a pawn with force and gave him counterplay. That pawn won my game in the end.