17 Nov 04
Originally posted by the dominator
we broke up 3 years ago, *sniff *sniff
Just cuz she cheated at chess?!
😉
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What the heck, I always find this chess story funny. My first USCF chess games were against a person rated 1500 or so. I was already rated provisional around 1280.
He figured an easy win, and sacked a Rook and a Bishop to open up my king side pawns. This story would be really funny if I had won, but I ended up making another bad move and it was a draw position with perpetual check.
After the game he told me that was a bad move... (duh) and I could have won. I should have told him his sac was bad... but I was a newbie to the USCF at the time.
17 Nov 04
Worth reposting something from a month or so ago...
In a tournament in the US, a player announced, no doubt with a flourish, that he had a mate in 3 (or whatever number of moves it was). He proceeds to adopt the regulatory smug expression, and walks off.
His opponent looks at the board, see that he is indeed going to be mated, but plays a move anyway. The first player, having announced the mate, didn't return to the board and lost on time. He was most perturbed when he turned up for his next round to see a zero on the score. He didn't realise that announcing mate is fair enough, but you have to actually stay around to deliver the moves.
17 Nov 04
Originally posted by RedmikeOne time I was playing chess and the police kicked-in my front door and took me to jail for being too handsome.
Worth reposting something from a month or so ago...
In a tournament in the US, a player announced, no doubt with a flourish, that he had a mate in 3 (or whatever number of moves it was). He proceeds to adopt the regulatory smug expression, and walks off.
His opponent looks at the board, see that he is indeed going to be mated, but plays a move anyway. ...[text shortened]... t announcing mate is fair enough, but you have to actually stay around to deliver the moves.
17 Nov 04
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Originally posted by Redmike
Worth reposting something from a month or so ago...
In a tournament in the US, a player announced, no doubt with a flourish, that he had a mate in 3 (or whatever number of moves it was). He proceeds to adopt the regulatory smug expressio ...[text shortened]... gh, but you have to actually stay around to deliver the moves.