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What is your most awkward memory when playing chess?

like couldn't help bursting into light laughters seeing your opponent being forced into dilemma though you actually didn't mean to.
when I was playing with 1200 in a real tournament, I had an extra rook, I put 3 pawns in the queen, gave them away and eventually lost(((
Probably in the last World Open when the guy next to me accidentally drank my water. Although I guess that is more awkward for him than me!

Oh also that time when I lost my queen in 10 moves against a 1000.
One of my first tournaments. maybe I am 12 years old. Having to explain to a grown-up, a man in his 40s at least, that the king goes to the c-file, not the b-file, when you castle queenside.
@AsDaGo said in #3:
> Probably in the last World Open when the guy next to me accidentally drank my water. Although I guess that is more awkward for him than me!
>
> Oh also that time when I lost my queen in 10 moves against a 1000.

kek, neither of you might have not been embarrassed had you not reminded him.
@Silhouette_Jay said in #5:
> kek, neither of you might have not been embarrassed had you not reminded him.

That sentence is very difficult to understand. Partly because I don't even know what the first word means (I guess I am exhibiting the first signs of old age), and partly because the rest of the sentence has too many negatives. But I guess what you are trying to say is that by letting him know, I had embarrassed us both. But actually, I wasn't the one who let him know, it was the other way around. The incident happened while I was away from the board, and he told me when I got back (which I appreciated).

On the off chance that he is reading this forum, I won't hold it against you, but you'll have to let me have a sip of your water should we meet again!
I remember playing in a team match back in the 1980s, confidently and with a flourish playing the move rook to f8, and saying "Mate!" in a voice which could be overheard by everyone else in the playing room.

"It isn't" replied my opponent playing the perfectly legal move king to h7. I went on to lose the game.
When my opponent startedthe game by misplacing king and queen over the board in a rated fide tournament. And the game continued lol , when we realised 10 moves was already over
@Brian-E said in #8:
> "It isn't" replied my opponent playing the perfectly legal move king to h7.
Something similar happened to me in a rapid game: I claimed a stalemate only to learn that I still had a pawn which could move.

And today I made the mistake of letting myself being talked into playing some blitz (first after 36 years, perhaps more). In one game I was clearly and comfortably winning but right after I happily checkmated the opponent, he just smiled and pointed at his queen checking my king.

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