Unsporting?

Game 2167553

On realising his move gives me a mate in 1 (Qxf7), he resigns. Would this be considered unsporting?

agreed. Most people consider it sporting when their opponent accept defeat instead of dragging out a lost match. OK, he did deny you the thrill of the 'kill', but does that really matter. Either by resignation or CM the win has the same value.

Even if the move didn't give mate in one i would have resigned, as black has lost his knight.

This is an example of unsporting:
Game 1829578
The first game I started on this site. Since then I've started and completed 38 others! This guy kept moving once a week, just before the deadline, and now is in the process of using up the last few hours of his two week timebank.

Originally posted by Lenzar
Game 2167553

On realising his move gives me a mate in 1 (Qxf7), he resigns. Would this be considered unsporting?

I've only been mated 2 or 3 times at RHP because I didn't even see it coming. Chess noobs seem to think it's unsporting, but resigning before the mate shows you understand you are beat and it is time to move on to the next game.

I do hope they said good game or something, if I don't have time in the game to say it I usually PM the message to the winner.

P-

Originally posted by Fat Lady
This is an example of unsporting:
Game 1829578
The first game I started on this site. Since then I've started and completed 38 others! This guy kept moving once a week, just before the deadline, and now is in the process of using up the last few hours of his two week timebank.

478 minutes left ! what a torture ! 😞😛😠

Originally posted by Fat Lady
This is an example of unsporting:
Game 1829578
The first game I started on this site. Since then I've started and completed 38 others! This guy kept moving once a week, just before the deadline, and now is in the process of using up the last few hours of his two week timebank.

erhem
He will crown first

Originally posted by Mctayto
erhem
He will crown first

Don't comment on games in progress.

He will "crown" first, but I will queen next move with check, then checkmate him next move. I've calculated very carefully!

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Don't comment on games in progress.

Funny how subscribers often need to be recommended about this....


Game is over, timed out.

Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
The game hadn't timed out before people started talking about it.

By "it's funny" I meant mctayto should have known not to talk about it. The second part was making sure people knew it was ok to talk about.

Just in case anyone's interested, the winning line for me in Game 1829578 if White swaps rooks is:

61. Rxf3+ Kxf3
62. d5 g4
63. d6 g3
62. d7 h2+
63. Kh1 g2+
64. Kxh2 Kf2
65. d8=Q g1=Q+
66. Kh3 Qg3 mate

I had to get out my real life chess set out for that one, something I almost never do in online corresponse games!

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Just in case anyone's interested, the winning line for me in Game 1829578 if White swaps rooks is:

61. Rxf3+ Kxf3
62. d5 g4
63. d6 g3
62. d7 h2+
63. Kh1 g2+
64. Kxh2 Kf2
65. d8=Q g1=Q+
66. Kh3 Qg3 mate

I had to get out my real life chess set out for that one, something I almost never do in online corresponse games!

Nice game.

Have a look at
31. ... Rb1+ (instead of Rxa5)
32.Kxb1 (forced) Rxa5 and unavoidable mate with Ra1.

edit. My apologies for commenting on a game in process(I didn't read evrything). The point I made, however, is completely irrelevant to the game continuation.