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Which rules of chess offend you?

By Steve | November 19, 2007

Although I’m not a big fan of blitz, I sometimes have a spurt of playing a lot of 2 5 games on ICC. I guess it’s when I need a change of pace.

Most ICC players are polite and friendly, but every now and then you run into an exception. What puzzles me the most are the players who get offended when you force a draw by repetition. This happened to me again last night. I faced a complicated position with four rooks plus passed pawns plus mating threats on the board, with relatively little time left for calculation. I saw no winning chances and lots of losing chances, and I saw that his king was fairly open to checks from my own pair of rooks. I went for the draw and got it.

A few seconds after the game ended, my opponent informed me that I was “censored” from playing further games against him. I hadn’t said anything at all to him, and he offered no explanation. I can only assume that he doesn’t like to play against people who know and use the repetition-of-position rule.

Sheesh. I think you should find a different game to play, fella.

2 Responses to “Which rules of chess offend you?”

  1. Polly Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    I guess some people hate to not win, so they think your forcing a draw by 3 fold repetition is just as bad as losing to you. Fortunately there are enough people in internet chess world that you don’t need to deal with idiots like that. His “censoring” you is the action of a rather pathetic control freak.

  2. Wahrheit Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 5:35 pm

    Hehe, I got censored by someone once for playing out a lost position–in a 3/0 game! I had about 20 seconds to 8 and he was like a rook and piece ahead, and he just stopped moving, wrote some nasty message and then READ MY PROFILE!!! or whatever as his time ran out…I found that he had some long screed there about not playing out lost positions. Sheesh, first I don’t read everyone’s profile before I play them and second, it’s 3/0 (I wrote back). More trash talk.

    I told him he was pretty funny for playing 3/0 and expecting people to resign if they were ahead on the clock. He then not only censored me from playing him but SHUNNED me or whatever it’s called.

    I didn’t stop chuckling for awhile. As Polly says, it’s a big world out there.

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