A member of this Internet Chess Club named SkydiverReturns disconnected in the diagrammed position below facing an unstoppable checkmate. Most of the players there are gentleman and exhibit exemplary sportsmanship choosing to resign and admitting their defeat graciously.
But this 1480 player who always castles queenside no matter what his opponent does conducted an unjustified "attack" and chose to resign by disconnecting rather than pressing the resign button admitting his inferior play. The Black Horse at the c4 square and Queen at a3 overwhelm the exposed White Monarch when the American Fish was too embarrassed to resign like an honorable competitor.
Wow, Rude behavior is so common in online chess that they have published policy on how to deal with obnoxious malcontents:
ReplyDeleteThe goal of the Internet Chess Club is to provide a place
for people from all over the world to play chess and meet
other chess players in a cordial environment. Sometimes
you may encounter rude, aggressive,nasty or hostile behavior from a player
on the ICC. What are your choices in this situation, besides
just ignoring the person?
Never retaliate, in kind, with an abusive member. Instead, choose
from the following choices and allow ICC administration to be your
reprisal(your way to get back at the jerks!)
rhodor(Netherlands) disconnected and forfeits
Deletebrianrugg is the worst about disconnecting when I AM CRUSHING HIM... makes the win that much sweeter since I know how much he knows I am dominating him!!!!
ReplyDeleteGarySacco disconnected and forfeits
ReplyDeleteNot sent -- modestog is censoring you.
DeleteThis is what I got when I tried to wish modestog happy birthday at the ICC internet chess club. He is very weak trade down player who has no imagination and I DOMINATE HIM!!!!!!
He has more losses than wins after 25000 3 minute blitz games as an indicator of how inadequate his bullet and blitz and overall understanding of the game is!!
I have lost contact with so many of my close friends in Texas after having moved to Abilene for two dreadfully long years! Some of the more special folks include Marvin Huckaby, Pershwitz family, Clemente Rendon,Sharon Pernes (husband Tim I think),Justin Barber, Jim Flaherty, Steven Young who i played in Waco or Dallas on Graham avenue, Shelby Anderson, and a few whose name Im not pulling up!
ReplyDeleteYou probably remember John Hall a strong Houston Texas player at the beloved Dave Mackey Chess studio on Shepherd or Durham. Glen Wilson another very strong postal player who still has an old unmaintained blog with pieces on icons like ronnie rubit, Mark Dejmek, Clifford Bunch and Stormy Newton to name a few. Hall was senior master strength gentlemen who would kibitz with the weaker players and had some great stories about the old masters like Reshevsky. I lost touch, but miss his gentle demeanor and soft spoken nature. He once took on a hot blooded Mexican national, who may have been a wetback, in long blitz match which John eventually won pissing off the greaser quite a bit, but they became friends.....
DeleteI played a talented player named Silas Perry who frequently spoke of the latent potential of the King's Indian Bishop. Silas beat Gary Simms, an icon of Amarillo, Texas, in a game where the New Mexico native made FM Simms squirm a long time before Silas liberated his bad bishop.
DeletePerry was much stronger than a teacher/military guy named Steve Perea who talked about chess just as though he was a good player. Some of the kids on his team were better than their coach and his ego struggled to deal with that.
Wow, you must know Simon McCormack and Jeff Sallade of the old Coronado Chess Club!! Jeff was competitive but relatively weak player at around a 1500 rating when I crushed him in Santa Fe. He was a talker and a little bit of a punk....the kind of guy who would walk up to the board of two much stronger players an point out mates both competitors had missed!! John Baxter was a nice guy and an advocate of building up the abysmal image of the royal game in Duke City
DeleteAn honest beginning player named brisket believes resigning after a blunder is poor sportsmanship and I quote "What I am saying is I feel like I am quitting(quitting) in the middle of the game especially if you resign right after a major blunder (like of you drop your queen or get your two rooks forked by a Knight or get distracted by the tits of girl at next board) or something like that. Isin't the honorable thing to finish your fight that you started? Why is it chess etiquette to resign?
DeleteSo I saw a reference here to Dave's Chess Studio and recognized some of the names. A little reluctant to make contact this way, but I was there in Mid 90's. I remember a lot of the guys and will just list last names in the name of privacy and hope I don't' offend. Matlock, Innocencio, Campbell, Yeung, Burford, Tuggle(who passed away before I played there) Wheeler, Chalker, Reuter. There are others but I will stop. I feel like I have lived two lives since then but will never forget the good times at Daves.
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