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i played a game today against beermaestro (good player) and it ended in a stalemate. however when i viewed my games in the my performance field it has it down as a loss. is there a bug?

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Originally posted by chris stephens
i played a game today against beermaestro (good player) and it ended in a stalemate. however when i viewed my games in the my performance field it has it down as a loss. is there a bug?
The game is Game 581829 and I don't know about the scoring glitch but please people when you have a two move mate (Rf2-Rf1) will you please just do it and not worry about pawns 4 squares from queening? A few more games like that and nobody will ever goddamn resign!!!!!

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Public opinion: Which is worse: leaving yourself open to a checkmate or missing a checkmate on your opponent? Just wondering what everyone thought.


-Kev

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Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Public opinion: Which is worse: leaving yourself open to a checkmate or missing a checkmate on your opponent? Just wondering what everyone thought.


-Kev
Missing a check mate on your opponent makes you feel an idiot,especially if you lose or draw the game.
I felt like that a few times here..........

edit:watching the game the simplest thing to do was keeping the rook on g file while white's king was prisoned in the h file,then checkmate would be only a matter of time.

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i think its fair to say i got out of jail! the weakest part of my game is dealing with an opponents pawn promotion as ravello will testify! it is strange though that it is down as a loss!

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I watched and in your public games it says ''stalemate'',however I had wrong statistics in the past,it's pretty common.
Try to message russ about it,but first assure that is really a bug.

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Originally posted by seraphimvulture
Public opinion: Which is worse: leaving yourself open to a checkmate or missing a checkmate on your opponent? Just wondering what everyone thought.


-Kev
I think they're about the same.

... but some mates are harder to spot than others.

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Another minor glitch: if you look at the Public Games page and scroll to Game 549415, you will see that it says "Promoting pawn" but does not indicate that with that promotion to a queen, the player doing the promoting checkmated the opponent for a win.

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Uh, negatory on that last comment. Minutes later the Game State is "Checkmate," so I guess I just happened upon the page when the player hadn't yet decided what piece to promote to. (An underpromotion to rook would also have done the deed.)