Damm... The last 40-50 moves were boooooring (but showed flawless technique on your behalf)... I don't know how you had the nerves to go on, mate, but kudos to you on an amazing game...

Wow great game but 1 question (I'm a rookie so this probably sounds stupid but) on turn 54 why not re1 or was it because you would lose the pawn?

A good chess player is able plan moves ahead of time. Leman should have seen that he had no chance of getting a checkmate. In my opinion, it would have been better for him if he resigned and lost with dignity, rather than running around the board with no hope.

Walking through the plays is an amazing education... I'm a rookie, but I'm finally learning a bit about position... there were so many moves in this game that made me say, "boy, why didn't he go here or there or take that piece" and then four or five moves later, I realize why.  Someday I hope to have that kind of insight... I keep playing on!

~Dave

Someone did this to me, went on vacation so I had to wait 40 days for the game to end. What's worse, they went on vacation and then resigned from the site. Now that was a rotten thing to do but I've seen all sorts of little oddities from chess players.

Many years ago in my first tournament (haven't played much in last 35 years) in one of the first games I played, the other player asked me to resign immediately, but that he would be kind enough to still play the game with me after I resigned. Of course, I declined. I had a won game but because of a remarkably weak endgame ability, I don't think I won, I think maybe we drew, not sure. Actually, I wasn't put off by his offer, I enjoyed it because at least he was interesting.

Hope your games are shorter and more exciting.

Thanks

in my views you r a champion.

           the attitude of leman was not good. if you r a good chess player, you should have the capability to face defeats because it is the part of the game.

Someone pointed out the fact that my opponent, Leman, still has zero losses on his record.  I hadn't realized that unrated games didn't actually show on a players record.  I now think it's fairly safe to assume that Leman deliberately let the game timeout and by doing so he was trying to make it seem as if he was not beaten in case anyone browses his game history and sees the loss.  Perhaps he doesn't realize that any chess player could discern within seconds that his position is hopelessly lost?

He was brave enough to issue a challenge to a higher rated player, but not brave enough to play a game that will impact his rating or his record.  As I said in my annotation, my opponent was all class....