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04 Dec 07
04 Dec 07
when you say to your opponent "I wish you good luck" or "Hello" or Thanks for the game and he doesn't reply nothing like you are some trash? And he knows English very well..?
I do not have habit to be annoying but simply say Hello, but is not accepted well generally. Of course I am NOT speaking about blitz games.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by ivan2908no, but I do have a pet peeve about people just disconnecting instead of resigning first. to me, a primarily OTB player, it's synonymous to getting up and leaving the game hall w/out officially resigning or anything. is too much to click resign and then affirm it?
when you say to your opponent "I wish you good luck" or "Hello" or Thanks for the game and he doesn't reply nothing like you are some trash? And he knows English very well..?
I do not have habit to be annoying but simply say Hello, but is not accepted well generally. Of course I am NOT speaking about blitz games.
04 Dec 07
After a game is over I always try to say something positive about my opponent’s play, win or lose. Before the game is another matter. I never wish them good luck. That would be lying. I hope they blunder their Q or get mated by move 6 so a simple hello is sufficient.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by masscatI agree...
After a game is over I always try to say something positive about my opponent’s play, win or lose. Before the game is another matter. I never wish them good luck. That would be lying. I hope they blunder their Q or get mated by move 6 so a simple hello is sufficient.
on another slightly similar subject, don't you hate it when you're offering a game in the blitz home screen, and someone accepts it, and you don't know what his/her rating is.
he plays well through the opening, and you even seem to have a slightly inferior position. then, you see it. 8 moves of sacraficing material towards mate. you go on to get the checkmate, just to eventually discover that you were playing a 900 something. yeah. that happens to me a lot. talk about a real ego-killer.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by rubberjaw30Don't sweat the small stuff... 🙂
I agree...
on another slightly similar subject, don't you hate it when you're offering a game in the blitz home screen, and someone accepts it, and you don't know what his/her rating is.
he plays well through the opening, and you even seem to have a slightly inferior position. then, you see it. 8 moves of sacraficing material towards mate. you go on to ...[text shortened]... u were playing a 900 something. yeah. that happens to me a lot. talk about a real ego-killer.
04 Dec 07
I have had recuring opponents in tournaments who have never spoken to me, one day I decided to say good luck for the game on every single move and he finally acknowledged me in the end.
It is like the shawshank redemption where he writes a letter every week for years until he finally gets a reply.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexI feel ignored! ðŸ˜
I have had recuring opponents in tournaments who have never spoken to me, one day I decided to say good luck for the game on every single move and he finally acknowledged me in the end.
It is like the shawshank redemption where he writes a letter every week for years until he finally gets a reply.
04 Dec 07
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Originally posted by masscatIt don't has to be translated literary like "please kick my butt" but more like a sign of good will, more like "let's have a good match". I doubt you want that your worthy opponent plays like drunk monkey? Where is challenge then ? 😛
. Before the game is another matter. I never wish them good luck. That would be lying. I hope they blunder their Q or get mated by move 6 so a simple hello is sufficient.[/b]
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by rubberjaw30I had this ego killing experience in an OTB tmt. once. I think I was rated around 1700 at the time. In the first round I was paired down and lost. It was my practice never to look at an opponent’s rating until after the game so had no idea what my second round opponent’s rating was. He played a solid opening giving no clue as to how good he was. After some maneuvering I saw a winning sac. He saw it too and avoided it. A few moves later I saw the win of a piece; he saw it too. Eventually it looked like he was getting a lot of counterplay, so I traded into a R & P ending which he played pretty solid. So then I traded R’s and he held the K & P ending. Eventually we agreed to a draw. When I looked at the wall chart and saw his name clear at the bottom with an 850 rating I was mortified. He ended the tmt. with that one draw in 5 games.
I agree...
on another slightly similar subject, don't you hate it when you're offering a game in the blitz home screen, and someone accepts it, and you don't know what his/her rating is.
he plays well through the opening, and you even seem to have a slightly inferior position. then, you see it. 8 moves of sacraficing material towards mate. you go on to ...[text shortened]... u were playing a 900 something. yeah. that happens to me a lot. talk about a real ego-killer.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by masscatMabe he was sandbagging!
I had this ego killing experience in an OTB tmt. once. I think I was rated around 1700 at the time. In the first round I was paired down and lost. It was my practice never to look at an opponent’s rating until after the game so had no idea what my second round opponent’s rating was. He played a solid opening giving no clue as to how good he was. After some m ...[text shortened]... the bottom with an 850 rating I was mortified. He ended the tmt. with that one draw in 5 games.
04 Dec 07
Originally posted by davidgraysonSandbagging was unheard of back then because we played for a miserable little cash prize or a crappy book or cheap trophy. If anybody would have been accused of sandbagging it would have been me. I think I lost nearly 100 points in that tmt. and eventually bottomed out around 1550. Then I travelled 350 miles to Chicago for a tmt. and had a 2100 performance rating, losing only in the last round to a Senior Master and winning…you guessed it…a cheap trophy.
Mabe he was sandbagging!