Tournaments
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30 Dec 09
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Originally posted by RopespierreGame 4254025
It's true, once every thousand games you play, your opponent will make a horrendous blunder and allow you to win. But did the fact that your opponent blundered in any way make you a better chess player?
I don't see much of a blunder on my opponents part in this game. He was kicking my butt. Then I saw the stalemate and went for it, and forced it. As I and others have done several times with the 3 move repetition draw. It's all part of chess.
And a draw is always better than a loss.
Our clan has a thread in our private clan forum titled "stalemates", It has several stalemates achieved by my comrades and I in games where we were getting our butts kicked in a game.
We also have 3 move repetition draws in another Thread. You would be surprised.
30 Dec 09
One could argue that all of chess is recognizing blunders both large and small on the part of your opponent. With skill and practice, we gain the ability to promote blunders on the part of our adversary.
If you view this learned optimism in the context of a clan challenge, would you as a clanmaster, prefer players who only surrendered after exhausting every possible option to win or at least draw, or would you prefer to field players who surrendered well before the final shot was fired?
Fight on bravely, I say, regardless of the opposition. When they tell me I'm too stupid to know when I'm beaten...I grin.
30 Dec 09
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Originally posted by sbacatWell said. As a clan leader I couldn't agree more.
One could argue that all of chess is recognizing blunders both large and small on the part of your opponent. With skill and practice, we gain the ability to promote blunders on the part of our adversary.
If you view this learned optimism in the context of a clan challenge, would you as a clanmaster, prefer players who only surrendered after exhausting ever ...[text shortened]... gardless of the opposition. When they tell me I'm too stupid to know when I'm beaten...I grin.
Game 5345785 Here's a draw (stalemate), one of my comrades got. It gave us the clan win. I'm glad he didn't just resign. He saw the stalemate and suckered his opponent right into it. Check out the last two moves. 😀