Chess & Sportsmanship

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bunicula

whether or not chess is a sport, the forums are filled with complaints about lack of sportsmanship in chess.  so we shall examine sportsmanship at the highest levels.

this incident probably inspired the following chess.com trophy

You Swept Me

bunicula

and this is not the first time.  the discrimination & hate against non-human players is just unbelievable.  have i already told you how tough it is being an undead bunny on chess.com?

bunicula

and still reeling from the milking defeat at the hooves of a cow, he trash talks poor little sofia

bunicula

and the famous cheparinov stops short of shaking hands incident (pun intended)

i mean if he was afraid of an infection, he should have worn gloves.  he should take lessons from our graceful ivanchuk below who brings joy to all he meets.

bunicula

so chess commies, tell us your news & views!

bunicula

i almost forgot the carlsen-anand event, where anand's QGD put carlsen to sleep.  move 3 did the damage but move 4 tipped it right over.  who is to blame?  i wouldn't know.  but i'm sure people complained.

bunicula

the touch move saga. 

i bet here nakamura wished he could stop or reverse time

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even carlsen does the touch feely thing

look at that cringe face he makes - hulk would pee in his pants.

bunicula

good ole carlsen strikes again but kosteniuk was like, you can't touch this.

bunicula

i believe nimzowitsch called saemisch an idiot, right after this game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch#Personality

lofina_eidel_ismail

How about that Bulgarian guy who didn't want to shake Nigel's hand at a tournament. saw that on YouTube.......?

bunicula

kmoch trolled nimzowitsch attributing to him this fictitious game & analysis

bunicula
lofina_eidel_ismail wrote:

How about that Bulgarian guy who didn't want to shake Nigel's hand at a tournament. saw that on YouTube.......?

post #4 :-)

lofina_eidel_ismail

weren't there more sportsmanship or unsportsmanlike things in other stuff.......say tennis (Serena yelling at a linesperson)

Or soccer (Singapore vs Burma hahaha love the fighting, punching hahaha)

bunicula

yes but chess, as our forum claims, is the gentleman's game, or to appease the minority, the sportsman's sport ;-)

lofina_eidel_ismail

bunicula wrote:

lofina_eidel_ismail wrote:

How about that Bulgarian guy who didn't want to shake Nigel's hand at a tournament. saw that on YouTube.......?

post #4 :-)

*OMG.......post #4 didn't show when I wrote my post! how weird bunny 🐰? Mmmmmmhhhh

BlargDragon

That king slap was pretty impressive!

bunicula

Yeah, who's the weaker sex now?

bunicula

sometimes it all comes out after the match.  here anand was just hungry & people thought he was being rude.

and that awkward silence afterwards ...

lofina_eidel_ismail

I like the montage of optional videos for viewing at the end of the clip

and they were all on CNN vs Trump surrogates