Chess Etiquette
18 May '12 13:33This is my first post in this forum as I usually only just about have time to play my games and not always as much a I'd like. I feel the need to share because I have been subjected to what I can only describe as unsporting behaviour at best and if I'm feeling a lack of generosity, outright cheating with a side order of childish abuse.
I won't name names publicly but suffice to say that this player has several thousand more games under his belt than my sub-500. I'm fully aware of the timeout function on this board and have made good use of the vacation setting when I've known in advance I was going to be away. Earlier this year a good friend of my took his own life, he lived in Bangkok though was originally from London, as am I. I had to leave suddenly and neglected a few things for nearly a week, RHP.com being one.
Now I will take a skull, as I say on my profile I'll do that only after I've used the email function and even then I'll hesitate if I'm losing the game. What's the point in winning games that you didn't, you know, win? The opponent in question was about to lose, being down to 3 pawns or so versus my queen +++. I don't think that's right and I wouldn't do it, I don't care how fast you like to play and I generally do. So when this guy popped up this week for another game, I accepted but sent them a short message asking if they would mind not taking the skull in the unlikely case that I'll drift past my timeout. For my trouble I was rudely told that I must be of low intelligence etc etc!
When you consider that this person then instantly put me on their ignore list so they could continue to abuse me without being able to read my replies then I started to understand what kind of personality I was dealing with. I guess it was this that made me feel the need to share on here but I do wonder if I should have expected this response? Was I so wrong to ask them to refrain from what I see as cheating?
Anyway, I love playing on here and have met some quality individuals. This is the first saddo I've encountered and I hope it's the last for some time.
Cheers,
Speeball
I won't name names publicly but suffice to say that this player has several thousand more games under his belt than my sub-500. I'm fully aware of the timeout function on this board and have made good use of the vacation setting when I've known in advance I was going to be away. Earlier this year a good friend of my took his own life, he lived in Bangkok though was originally from London, as am I. I had to leave suddenly and neglected a few things for nearly a week, RHP.com being one.
Now I will take a skull, as I say on my profile I'll do that only after I've used the email function and even then I'll hesitate if I'm losing the game. What's the point in winning games that you didn't, you know, win? The opponent in question was about to lose, being down to 3 pawns or so versus my queen +++. I don't think that's right and I wouldn't do it, I don't care how fast you like to play and I generally do. So when this guy popped up this week for another game, I accepted but sent them a short message asking if they would mind not taking the skull in the unlikely case that I'll drift past my timeout. For my trouble I was rudely told that I must be of low intelligence etc etc!
When you consider that this person then instantly put me on their ignore list so they could continue to abuse me without being able to read my replies then I started to understand what kind of personality I was dealing with. I guess it was this that made me feel the need to share on here but I do wonder if I should have expected this response? Was I so wrong to ask them to refrain from what I see as cheating?
Anyway, I love playing on here and have met some quality individuals. This is the first saddo I've encountered and I hope it's the last for some time.
Cheers,
Speeball
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