HERE IS GENUINE PROOF WHY A LOSING PLAYER SHOULD NEVER RESIGN IF HE/SHE DOESN'T WANT TO...THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TRYING TO (AND HOPEFULLY ACHIEVING) DRAW
See my recently drawn game below for an example...
I was losing pretty badly but I didn't immediately resign...instead I slowly built up a way to force perpetual check...
If there is ANYTHING immoral about what I did, then PLEASE send me a message...
Game 2891300
Originally posted by wittywonkaWith this game you really prove that it is always worthwhile to continue a game. If you have a slightest chance of not losing, then you should take it.
HERE IS GENUINE PROOF WHY A LOSING PLAYER SHOULD NEVER RESIGN IF HE/SHE DOESN'T WANT TO...THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TRYING TO (AND HOPEFULLY ACHIEVING) DRAW
See my recently drawn game below for an example...
I was losing pretty badly but I didn't immediately resign...instead I slowly built up a way to force perpetual check...
If there is ANYTHING immoral about what I did, then PLEASE send me a message...
Game 2891300
In this game you showed that you are the superior player. You turned a lost game to a draw that your opponent didn't know how to prevent. You are the moral winner, even if it was a draw.
To aim for a draw is *never* wrong. Anyone trying to prove otherwise shows lack of knowing the rules of chess.
Originally posted by JaminI've also wasted ten minutes reading this.
Five pages? What??!?!?!? I could've been playing, but I've spend ten minutes reading through this thread. What a waste. Oh. Now it's pushing six pages. 😉
Yet I must admit, I find lightfallsup's posts strangely addictive. They have a charming idiocy about them! 😀
Originally posted by wittywonkai've had a look at this game and what is clear is that after move 20 you were obviously lost and persisted in dragging the game out and exploiting a loophole. After your queen was lost you got even more unsporty and tried to obtain infinite checks with your Rooks that were designed to carry on the game forever. You should be ashamed of yourslef. This was very unfair as a true sportsman would play a deliberately inferior move.
HERE IS GENUINE PROOF WHY A LOSING PLAYER SHOULD NEVER RESIGN IF HE/SHE DOESN'T WANT TO...THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TRYING TO (AND HOPEFULLY ACHIEVING) DRAW
See my recently drawn game below for an example...
I was losing pretty badly but I didn't immediately resign...instead I slowly built up a way to force perpetual check...
If there is ANYTHING immoral about what I did, then PLEASE send me a message...
Game 2891300
Well no one over here seems to be reading Lightfallsup posts. He's being pretty clear that it is just his opinion and that he doesn't think repetition to be illegal, rather annoying and unethical.
Sure to every experienced chessplayer this seems like idiocy, but if it is the way he thinks about it, let him be. It's not like he's trying to force you to stop enforcing the rule, he was merely asking if the majority on this site played with the rule.
To lightfallsup, yeah, many people on this site use the rule to go for a draw. It's good that u are asking people if they use the rule in advance of the game, if see no problem if you both choose to disregard it.
Check this out. Ahead by a whole rook, about to promote a pawn, and then my moronic 32nd move, which allows him a perpetual check opportunity.
Game 2818366
Of course, I see that I don't have to let him draw the game this way. I can simply give up the rook, end the perpetual check, and still be able to force the win.
But clearly, what I should have done was keep blocking the check with Qf7, let him get the perpetual, and then go whining in the chess forum that my opponent wasn't letting me have fun.
Originally posted by BartsNo, he was not simply asking if the majority on this site play that way. He was inferring that what we play here is an entirly different brand of chess on this site, and he was condemming it. Perhaps you missed his statement that he doesn't expect everyone to play to his "standards". "Standards" is a way of assigning values to these different styles of chess, and he's clearing saying that his way is better. He says we're not listening to him, when he has yet to listen to any of the numerous people who have tried to explain to him that this is a perfectly acceptable way to force a draw. If you weren't supposed to be able to force a draw by perpetual check, then it would be against the rules, like it is in Xianggi (Chinese Chess).
Sure to every experienced chessplayer this seems like idiocy, but if it is the way he thinks about it, let him be. It's not like he's trying to force you to stop enforcing the rule, he was merely asking if the majority on this site played with the rule.
Originally posted by NordlysNaughty me! Slapped wrists. I'll get a forum ban if I continue such unacceptable behavour.
Ssshhh... The game is still in progress. I found it very tempting to point out the obvious, too, but as it's obviously not obvious for them, we shouldn't.
I am feeling very contrite.
Originally posted by Bartsyou mean, when someone has a stupid opinion, posts it in a discussion forum and keeps insisting there's nothing wrong with it because "it's just his opinion", everyone should just shut up?
Well no one over here seems to be reading Lightfallsup posts. He's being pretty clear that it is just his opinion and that he doesn't think repetition to be illegal, rather annoying and unethical.
Sure to every experienced chessplayer this seems like idiocy, but if it is the way he thinks about it, let him be. It's not like he's trying to force you to stop enforcing the rule, he was merely asking if the majority on this site played with the rule.
well, it ain't gonna happen.