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Fossil wrote:

No, you guys stop treating chess as a stall game. Hence why bullet and blitz are 2 of the worse variants. Let's stall or just move random pieces in an attempt to make my opponent timeout. Let's eat all my opponents pieces when I could have checkmated them 15 moves ago. Rated or Unrated. They're childish tactics that have become meta because people copy and paste what someone else used successfully. Then you just sit there laugh and try to troll your opponent during or after the game. Chess is about skill and the ability to see and adapt as the game progresses. Many of you treat it like Fortnite and live sports where trash talking and "getting inside someone's head" are "staples" to be competitive. Bet a lot of you would flop onto the floor in a real chess game hoping to draw a foul...

Thats everyy game too not just chess. It's just the sad point the world has come to.

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Perhaps there's some context I'm missing, but I don't see anything of particular note there. If anything, he wasted a pawn to just go back and let you develop for free. It's just that, well, you happened to move the pawn that was blocking their bishop from taking your rook. It's something that's happened to everyone before.

Though I completely understand the frustration, it seems to me that you're attributing a lot of motivations and traits to a random stranger you don't know, simply because they played a gambit and didn't follow it up how you expected them (or yourself in their situation) to.

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Lilyana, it is just a defensive player. That’s it. 
“I hop onto unrated to have a nice fun game”

Have you considered that those players might be ‘freeing themselves from theory’ and just playing how they want to?

”because the game got unplayable”

I think the game isn’t all that unplayable. Like I said, it’s a valid strategy. Unless you deal with the annoying player that copies your moves, the opening theory you learnt isn’t very useful. People see the game in different ways and from different perspectives. While you may not enjoy playing people like this, I dislike pawn endgames and love queen endgames. I still play them regardless. If you really find yourself having difficulties dealing with this, I recommend you find a group of like-minded players that play with rules that suit you.

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Lilyana wrote:

Why do people that are supposedly "1300" play in such manipulative ways? Especially in unrated? I hop into unrated to have a nice fun game to relax a bit to see if my anger has gotten any better and then I get a player like this. Feels like they do it on purpose to annoy you. I never see players like this. Idk how you can call this chess. Its just dumb. Or I'm just mentally insane like people say I am and I can't handle my own "childish" emotions. This is the reason I quit chess. Not just cuz the game got boring but because it's just unplayable. I can't enjoy it when people do stuff like this. And no not accusing of any form of cheating ik they are not thats why I didn't delete the username. In my eyes just an annoying player 🙃 Not a GG.

1.d4 c5 is not a gambit as Black is obviously going to win the pawn back. After that he made very reasonable moves to win your pawn back, and when he did you just blundered your rook. What is annoying in this other than your own mistakes?

Avatar of Lilyana

How they just played passive. I dont like that. It feels illegal

Avatar of Lilyana

Even when they were now winning they were still being so passive.

Avatar of macdek680

It's just another reasonable playing style. If they have a good success rate with that style then they should play it.

Avatar of Lilyana

But like its unrated :-: if u wanna play like that do it in rated

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Chessflyfisher wrote:

Grow up and stop complaining!

Honestly, this is the most helpful post on this thread, whether anyone accepts it or not.

Avatar of macdek680

Why shouldn't you play according to your style just because it is unrated?

Avatar of Obanai_Hashira

people are mad cuz this play style is deviating from the play style that chess was created for. people are mad because the new era of chess is people playing like this. i'm not taking sides btw but I agree that this play style is annoying

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Obanai_Hashira wrote:

people are mad cuz this play style is deviating from the play style that chess was created for. people are mad because the new era of chess is people playing like this. i'm not taking sides btw but I agree that this play style is annoying

That's a good point, but people are free to play whatever style they like. If you find it annoying you can prepare against it. It's like making a forum called "I find it annoying when people beat me" rather than actually trying to get better at chess.

Avatar of ChanMan4

People can play how they want. Also gambits aren't always for attacking, sometimes they are just to get some quicker developement

Avatar of Tactical-Tater-Tot

Gambit does not always necessarily means it has to be aggressive almost immediately chess is a harsh game but your point here is dubious if you hate gambit and opening traps that much then stick to 960/fischer random, you cant just blame your opponent for developing their pieces

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Lilyana wrote:

Well... my problem is. They are playing scared like. They are doing a gambit. Most of the time gambits are aggressive but instead of attacking they just sat back and my time was just ticking. I didn't know what to do. It just pauses you and you are like "What the?" It feels illegal when you are in the moment. Thats what is frustrating. I get its fair. I get it's a strategy. But when I play unrated I expect somebody to just play the game like we don't care. Just move, no need to go all out and manipulate the brain in such way. Its unrated. Like seriously.

There is nothing wrong with that

Avatar of PenguinChocolate

I rage in chess but for a different reason. Lag is my absolute #1 worst enemy by far! It's unbelievably frustrating!!!

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Luxob wrote:
Lilyana wrote:

Well... my problem is. They are playing scared like. They are doing a gambit. Most of the time gambits are aggressive but instead of attacking they just sat back and my time was just ticking. I didn't know what to do. It just pauses you and you are like "What the?" It feels illegal when you are in the moment. Thats what is frustrating. I get its fair. I get it's a strategy. But when I play unrated I expect somebody to just play the game like we don't care. Just move, no need to go all out and manipulate the brain in such way. Its unrated. Like seriously.

There is nothing wrong with that

There is a lot... a thing about games people look for cheap ways to win and that is this exact concept.

Avatar of macdek680

But if they have the best success rate with cheap ways, then they should play them.

Why should your opponent care about what is annoying for you, unrated or not?

Avatar of Kaeldorn

No one ma,ipulated you into playing 10.b4 which loses the game on the spot.

You're being whinny.

And mental issues or not, no one forces you to bow to any emotion.

Avatar of Kaeldorn

Would you live in a country or a time where being stupid kills you, you'd overcome your emotions as it go.