Here's the scenario: You're playing a tough opponent. He's very canny in the opening, chooses an unclear line and moves into the middle game with chances on both sides. the middlegame is a dogfight, the advantage swings back and forth. A month later, into the endgame, you're a pawn ahead on move seventy, but your king is in jeopardy. Through some deft defence you manage to whittle everything down to a king and pawns endgame. You check Dvoretsky and Ruben Fine which both say winning is problematical. You drag out your chessboard into the kitchen. Your wife screams at you. You move into the living room, analyze into the dead of the night. You think you can win it, but you're not sure. The pawns moves ever so slowly forward to queening, but he might be able to stop it. You begin to dream about the position, shifting the king this way and that in your head. You get an idea and jump up at three in the morning. You're wife screams at you. An idea! You run down to RHP in the basement computer, tripping over the cats along the way. It's move 138. YOu have the winning line and you know it. You click on RHP. It says "Opponent Resigned." No comment about your tenacious play, no congratulations, nothing. Just "opponent resigned." You feel good for about fifteen seconds before looking at the other twenty games, half of which are already dead losers. Shouldn't there be something programmed into RHP like a blare of trumpets, a roll of drums, a skirl of bagpipes, perhaps when you get a win. Nope, just "your opponent resigned." People get paid for this much work. You trudge up the basement steps and go back to bed. Your wife screams at you...
Originally posted by buddy2Do I sense bitterness?
Here's the scenario: You're playing a tough opponent. He's very canny in the opening, chooses an unclear line and moves into the middle game with chances on both sides. the middlegame is a dogfight, the advantage swings back and forth. A month later, into the endgame, you're a pawn ahead on move seventy, but your king is in jeopardy. Through some def ...[text shortened]... is much work. You trudge up the basement steps and go back to bed. Your wife screams at you...
Originally posted by buddy2You have a smart wife!
Here's the scenario: You're playing a tough opponent. He's very canny in the opening, chooses an unclear line and moves into the middle game with chances on both sides. the middlegame is a dogfight, the advantage swings back and forth. A month later, into the endgame, you're a pawn ahead on move seventy, but your king is in jeopardy. Through some def ...[text shortened]... is much work. You trudge up the basement steps and go back to bed. Your wife screams at you...
This is the one I was bitter about.
Game 1578823
I really wanted to play c2#
As they say, you can't have your cake and eat it.
Originally posted by zebanoheh, or ...g5, or ...f6 just to emphasize the helplessness!
This is the one I was bitter about.
Game 1578823
I really wanted to play c2#
As they say, you can't have your cake and eat it.
Originally posted by buddy2give us the number that we click to get to the game please so we can see it.
Here's the scenario: You're playing a tough opponent. He's very canny in the opening, chooses an unclear line and moves into the middle game with chances on both sides. the middlegame is a dogfight, the advantage swings back and forth. A month later, into the endgame, you're a pawn ahead on move seventy, but your king is in jeopardy. Through some def ...[text shortened]... is much work. You trudge up the basement steps and go back to bed. Your wife screams at you...
-trallphaz
Sorry, there is no real game involved here. I was just fictionalizing the absurdity of working so hard (as we all do) only to achieve a "your opponent has resigned." You feel triumphant for all of 15 seconds, then you go to your other games. The payoff for a win seems so feeble, I think there should be some sort of recognition of all the effort--maybe the theme from "Rocky" playing behind the resign message. I do have a game that comes real close to this, however, where I've been battling with a great player for a long time. I think I have it, but it's not over so I can't show anything. If I looked back on my past games, I'm sure I could come up with a few others. I think we've all had games like that. In a club, after you win, you will probably get a few congratulations, slaps on the back, etc. You might even get a congratulation hand shake from your opponent. You might even get the pleasure of playing over the game with him and revisit the pleasure of eking a win out of a close game. At RHP you get nada. And i think it's self-indulgent to post a win for everyone to admire, since a higher rated player could probably shoot holes through my well-laid plans.