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Slobs and Talking to Opponents

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Wow Fat lady - why did you not come on here as Rocky.

Here is a blitz I played a few minutes ago just to cheer you up.
It's not always White that wins the short games in the Danish.

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I was only in America for three days (for work), but everyone I met in the bars I visited (OK, perhaps I wasn't working too hard) seemed to think that all British men are clones of Hugh Grant

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Originally posted by Fat Lady
I was only in America for three days (for work), but everyone I met in the bars I visited (OK, perhaps I wasn't working too hard) seemed to think that all British men are clones of Hugh Grant
Don't think you can fool us either. We're onto your cloning methods.

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Fat Lady, are you actually female??? And are you overweight? Just wondering pardon my rudeness. You just seem like Rambo from your past experiences you listed above. What's your body count at now? 🙂

I always wondered if you were allowed to punch opponents, because since I can't win at chess I could always win at boxing!!

Anyone have any stories of annoying opponents kicking them under the table?

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Originally posted by pijun
Fat Lady, are you actually female??? And are you overweight? Just wondering pardon my rudeness. You just seem like Rambo from your past experiences you listed above. What's your body count at now? 🙂

I always wondered if you were allowed to punch opponents, because since I can't win at chess I could always win at boxing!!

Anyone have any stories of annoying opponents kicking them under the table?
>I don't know of anyone being kicked under the table, but I'm sure it goes on occassionally.
>Nevertheless, I read once that Nimzovich had a habit of curling his feet around the leg of his chair. There are a lot of people who do this, so this is common. However, during one game as he was about to get up to take a break while he was not on the move, he forgot about this little habit of his, rose out of his chair, and broke his ankle! 🙄

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I got an advice once, he said it was a part of the chess etiquette:

"If you ask for a draw and he reject it, then your opponent is the one asking for the draw next time."

Your opponent is rejecting your draw offer for a reason. If you offer a draw again, it is considered rude. When he want's to accept it, some moves after, he does so by offering a draw himself. This offer can be rejected or accepted in your turn. Nest time you can offer a new draw if you feel the situation is different. Etc...

But you cannot be the one to offer a draw twice, only a few moves in between.

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Probably, but if you live with the crap chess that's in the states, everywhere else looks like Utopia. Anyway, here's the best story I have about an unruly opponent:

I was playing in a G/30 tourney at a local club and was paired against an unfamiliar opponent. I sat down as Black and started the clock, and a disheveled teenager sat down (at this time I was also a disheveled teenager, so we were even). He played 1. d4, and the game continued 1...Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 at which point he mumbled to himself "Ahhhh, a hypermodernist, eh?", almost posing the question to himself. I knew I was in for it right there. The way he moved the pieces was almost hateful, but never completely directed at me. It was really eery. He just had some bad energy or something.

Anyway, his position starts to go south pretty quickly after some ridiculously aggressive play by him. He played the four pawns, but then proceeded to play g4 h4 h5, etc...without developing. So once he realizes his position is kind of a mess, he looks me straight in the eyes during my turn as I lean back, and says,

"You know I hate you right?"

And shocked, I answered, "Why is that?"

He responded coldly "Because you're one year younger than me and higher rated. I'm older, and I should be better than you."

At this point I didn't say anything, I just made a move and got up to walk around and look at the other games. After he makes a move, I sit back down, and he immediately says, "TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK. YOU'RE GONNA LOSE ON TIME!" I of course paused the clock and walked over to the TD and told him my opponent was talking to me during the games and harassing me. So the TD walks over and the kid says, "You have no proof of anything!"

The TD decides to just stand over the game, which by this time has become quite crowded. After a couple of minutes of no talking, the TD walks away, and the kids position is just lost now. He's down a full piece and pawn, and I have the initiative as well. He realizes it's not worth playing, and quickly jolts up and grabs his king. He screamed, "I'm gonna throw this at you!!" And I just say, "If that's what you want to do, then do it." Now everyone in the tournament is looking at him, and he proceeds to pick up his water bottle and toss it on me. I took it surprisingly well, no Italian temper flares or anything like that. He got immediately kicked out of the tournament (literally thrown out), and here's the kicker: His mom rushes in right after he gets kicked out and runs up to me and whispers, "I'm so sorry, he didn't take his medication today"

I don't know if I'll ever be able to top that one.

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I heard in a tourney in Antwerp someone rammed his toothpick into his opponents hand.This was shortly after you were no longer allowed to smoke,which is why he was sucking a toothpick.

Not sure if it's true though,can't find any verification.

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I once played in a tournament where my opponent sat on the back of the chair with his feet on the seat!(Some sort of psychological dominance gesture I suppose). Any way I say nothing and after a while he starts rocking precariously back and forth. It took only the slightest of touches with my foot at the critical point of balance to send him sprawling! Naturally I showed the utmost concern for his wellbeing and I'm fairly sure that he thought he had just overbalanced.

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I once had occasion - after a particularly graceless resignation - to call an opponent a See You Next Tuesday to his face. It was very satisfying I have to tell you.

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Back when I was somewhere in the USCF 1800-1900's (an "A" player in the US), I was playing a "C" player (1400-1500) and dropped a piece in the opening out of some sort of stupidity. But, I had some compensation and decided to keep playing, even though it should have been hopeless. Eventually, he makes some inaccurate moves (no outright blunders) and I end up winning. He was very upset and said "How did you get to be an "A" player playing like that?" in a rather nasty way.
My response "Well, I don't know. I do why you're a "C" player, though, if you can't win games like that".

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
~TONY~ on other post states he wished he lived and played in the UK
as the American players all seem to be slobs.

We have own fair share of slobs as well.

I once sat down at a board and my overweight opponet unwrapped a
packet of sandwiches, opened a bottle of pop and had a picnic at the chess board.

He ate with his mouth open and slurped hi ...[text shortened]... ll tell you when it's a draw."

Anybody else had cause to speak to their opponent OTB.
Your opponent has every right to offer a draw at anytime.
If someone was ever that rude to me, I would knock his teeth so far down his throat, he would have to visit a proctologist when he had a toothache.

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
Your opponent has every right to offer a draw at anytime.
If someone was ever that rude to me, I would knock his teeth so far down his throat, he would have to visit a proctologist when he had a toothache.
Fide laws of chess:

12.6

It is forbidden to distract or annoy the opponent in any manner whatsoever. This includes unreasonable claims or unreasonable offers of a draw.

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there are of course some measures that one could take, for example an opponent of Mikhail Tal wore mirrored sunglasses to reflect back his penetrative stare, Petrosian of course could turn down his hearing aid to limit any noise and of course there is the famous barrier to stop Korchnoi kicking Karpov, so it seems that mirrored sunglasses, ear plugs and a decent baseball bat, reassuringly placed by ones side may serve as as deterrents, and if youre a chick, naturally, low cut tops would do away with the necessity for almost any other form of distraction!🙄