respect is earned

Submitted by Hamish on Fri, 02/01/2008 at 6:19am.

There has been a lot of chatter lately about some players being disrespectful to their opponent by not reconizing their genius within a couple of moves, they have shown this by not resigning. Excuse me but I thought the object of the game of chess was to checkmate your opponent or agree a draw with them. After all if you are that good, checkmate should be easy, and respect will be truely earned.( I know Tournaments are different , what with the point system and all.)

Respect for me is a two-way street and respect for players with lower ratings is essential, Having been well and truely beaten by low ranking players has indeed been a humbling experience, but also a great lesson in alternative play not covered by books.

So come on, lets stop being precious and anal about our chess its a great game and no two games are ever the same, so lets enjoy the game for the games sake.

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Comments:

by littleman - 8 months ago
Taree Australia

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 1067

Spoken by true amature my friend hahaha. But you are right in that higher players shouldnt be worried to much about there opponents playing even when the lower one is losing badly. Im playing a few players who have clearly lost but continue anyway i let them know they have lost and i cant see anyway out for them but if they want to continue thats fine with me, more often then not they do keep playing. The reason the higher players want the lower ones to resign sooner is that they dont want to spend more time on a won game they just want to play the next one without needing to feel like there waisting time wating for the inveitable and its uncommon for a higher player to want u to resign in just 5 moves when there is still plenty in the game.....

by Queenie - 8 months ago
The London House United Kingdom

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 1445

Oh Hamish you are like a breath of fresh air. I agree with every word.

by niddrieboy - 8 months ago
edinburgh Scotland

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 100

yes I was playing a guy last week and he sent me a message "resign" but I just played on and got a draw tough luck he had king knight and a pawn and me just my king but I dont see why I should resign

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