Unsporting?

~~Lenzar~~

Only Chess

14 Jun 06 19:48

~~Lenzar~~

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14 Jun 06 19:48

Game 2167553

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

Sicilian Smaug

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14 Jun 06 19:49

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belgianfreak

stitching you up

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14 Jun 06 19:52

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.

LanndonKane

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14 Jun 06 20:12

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

Fat Lady

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14 Jun 06 20:29

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.

Phlabibit

Mystic Meg

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14 Jun 06 20:30

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-

~~drjegc~~

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15 Jun 06 08:00

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 ! 😞😛😠

Mctayto

Highlander

Planet Earth

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15 Jun 06 10:35

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

XanthosNZ

Cancerous Bus Crash

p^2.sin(phi)

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15 Jun 06 10:45

Originally posted by Mctayto
erhem
He will crown first

Don't comment on games in progress.

Fat Lady

Joined: 21 Feb 06
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15 Jun 06 11:04

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

cmsMaster

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15 Jun 06 20:19

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.

Sicilian Smaug

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15 Jun 06 20:21

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cmsMaster

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15 Jun 06 20:24

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.

Fat Lady

Joined: 21 Feb 06
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15 Jun 06 21:30

1 edit

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!

Mephisto2

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15 Jun 06 22:10

1 edit

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.