Yesterday, I was in a chess tournament and it was a four round tournament. I had lost to a 1700 and a 1800, and I got a 1 point bye in the third round. In the last round, I was up agaist a 1400. I was winning easily; I had two rooks and 6 pawns vs his rook and knight and four pawns. He moved his knight and attacked my rook. My rook could pretty much move anywhere. I thought for a minute, and reached over to pick up my rook when, to my horror, my arm seemed to randomly pick up my other rook! I probably could've immediately said "adjust" and gotten away with it, but my reflexes were far to slow. I just sat there, dumbfounded. This was worse than a blunder; I knew which piece I wanted to move, and I was reaching over to grab it, and picked up the wrong piece! Apparently this happened to Kasparov in the match vs. Deep Blue in the opening.
Unfortunately, this brought my rating down from 1213 to 1198, when, if I had picked up the right piece (and assumingly won the game), my rating would be an estimated 1249. This was also the last tournament I was going to play before they took the december supplement.
Darn!
Has anything similar ever happened to you?
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It was the last round of a rapid play comp a win would have seen me with prize money, the position on the board was intense messy middle game, my opponent had just attacked my knight with a pawn....I could launch my attack now leaving the knight en prise since he seemed to miss my bishop sac or I could save the knight. Well the bishop sac does seem to work but its risky so I start to look at knight moves after about 20 seconds I find the perfect square for my knight......it was going to mess the other guy up gooooood wooohooooo so im sat there thinking about the nice win while I pick up the knight and move it to my perfect square.....to my horror as I go to put the knight down on the square I realise that the knight couldnt even move there!!! 🙁🙁🙁 It was 'a square too far' away I ended up having to stick the damn thing en prise to another pawn 🙁 He then blocked the bishop sac and my position fall apart in a hurry 😛
I was playing in the semifinals of the National County champs, and was completely hung over from a long night/morning clubbing with my friends, after a few moves I picked up my knight and said to my opponent in a slurred drunk kind of way - " can you remind me how the horsey moves?" he glared at me thinking I was joking, but I wasn't - I sat there for about 30 mins burst into tears, then resigned, my team captain went berserk and threatened never to select me again.
Luckily my team won and I went on to win my board as we won the County final, YAY
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I was playing an 2500+ rated IM in an early round. He made his 15th move pretty fast. When I looked at it, I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was dropping a N in a two-mover…or was a trap? IM’s don’t blunder pieces so it had to be a trap, but I couldn’t see it. After 10 min. I figured I’m going to lose anyway so I’ll grab the piece. I could tell by the look on his face he had, in fact, blundered. I was winning right up to the end when a time pressure error lost the N back and a few moves later the game. Darn!
I was playing against a guy who seemed to be pretty sure he will win.
During all game he pushed and pushed - material was still even - but he had a big space advantage (with a bit unsafe king though).
The problem was that we both had about 5 minutes on the clock left:
so I move my bishop and give him a check.
He doesn't notice this was a check - and instead of moving his king, moves his queen. I rushed to the judge and told him that my clock should be incremented by 2 minutes (because my opponent made an illegal move).
Judge arrived, looked at the position, listened to my explanations, shrugged and added me 2 minutes.
Then my opponent thought for a second - and now - made a correct move - retreating his king.
We had a sharp battle - and in the end - after many mutual chances missed - I lost.
But how furious I was when realized that besides time increment I should demand that he still moves with his queen - since he already touched it - he then would defend from the check - and I'd take the queen with bishop and win the game.
I was sure that the guy behaved meanly (since he knew the rules - and should play with queen) - and for about a year I didn't shake hands with him ... yeah, not only GM's have "toilet issues".
Originally posted by VovochkaWhy do you think that only your opponent ought to know the rules? There's a reason why players aren't expected to do things like call their own flag. You have only yourself to blame for this.
I was sure that the guy behaved meanly (since he knew the rules - and should play with queen) - and for about a year I didn't shake hands with him ... yeah, not only GM's have "toilet issues".
Back when i was 1800 i blundered a queen to a 1400 since I was going to come first place anyway I didnt really care about the match but it turned out that the queen blunder caused the guy to lose a key defender and he got mated in 5 moves, so even though masters may sometimes blunder there is almost always some logic to a move even if it does lose 😀
That has oddly happened to me on this site. Which shouldn't happen since it takes 2 clicks to move.
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Originally posted by chesskid001Many times I have thought about a move, decided it was bad and probably lost so thought some more, found a better move and decided to play it then reached out and picked up the piece for the move I had rejected earlier.
Yesterday, I was in a chess tournament and it was a four round tournament. I had lost to a 1700 and a 1800, and I got a 1 point bye in the third round. In the last round, I was up agaist a 1400. I was winning easily; I had two rooks and 6 pawns vs his rook and knight and four pawns. He moved his knight and attacked my rook. My rook could pretty much mov ...[text shortened]... re they took the december supplement.
Darn!
Has anything similar ever happened to you?
Try as I might I can't stop doing this and it must happen at least once a year. Sometimes it is not fatal, its just not as good and occasionally my calculations were wrong and it is not as bad as I thought it was, in fact its better than the move I had intended making, but usually its bad and it loses.
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I had about the same situation as Vovochka. Much higher opponent did not notice check and went with Q. I pointed to check and he defended his K with another piece, althoug he could defend with Q. I knew a rule, wondering how come he does not oblige, but I said to myself: I am winning any way so we continued. When I was giving mate after 20 moves or so. he pointed out that both our clocks ran out. I have no doubt that he saw his clock running out, but continued. It was a draw. From that time I decided: never again. So it seems when I do something wrong it is ok if nobody saw it. Sad. I guess it is ok to cheat if nobody sees it. Saaaaad.
in a tournament I took the piece, placed it in the proper square, and left it, and in that second, before pressing the clock, realised what a blunder I did...so imediately I moved it to a different square...
My opponent told me: "sorry, you left the piece there"...and I knew he was right but I asked him to call the referee...I was sooo upset because the blunder that I just did...When the referee came he explained him the situation...I did not deny anything (I was still mad on me because of the blunder)...and the referee decided in the favour of my opponent(of course)...and I lost the game.
It was very frustrating, because I had some positional advantage there and he was a strong opponent...I was telling to myself: "no, no, no, you could not do that"
In my first ever high school match I played the first board player from a respected private school in our area. I was up by 2 pawns with a better position and was about to take a "free" 3rd pawn, but right after I touched the pawn with my rook, I realized that this move allowed for a back rank mate in 2. This was my first tournament chess game in 2 years, so I wasn't aware of the rules, and tried to move my rook to a square that defended against mate, but my oppenent informed me that I must take the pawn since I touched it with the rook. I called a TD over just to be sure, but he was right 🙁
Don’t feel too bad. I was watching an IM beating his 2300 rated opponent when he moved his Q to what he thought was the mating square. Only problem was it was covered by his opponent’s B. You could always try what Reshevsky did once when he made a losing Q move in a won position. After his opponent moved (I think it was Matulovic), he put his opponent’s move back, picked up his Q and said, “No. No. The Queen went to here.” then played it to a different square.
I've had a game where I was pinning his rook to his castled King with a bishop, and my Knight on d2 or something, when I moved my Queen into a taking square. I only realised this as soon as I put down my piece but my opponent took three minutes to see it. However I lost the match and he told all his friends. I thrashed him in the friendlies though.
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