I just played a rated game, and my opponent was stuck in a bad position, though he would have still had an endgame though a likely loss. He made a poor move, which allowed me to save my own not so great position at the moment. And then he asks for a take back, about 20 times. I declined. Then he just let the time run out. I've only asked for a take back for a mouse slip, and even then not often. This was clearly a planned move. Is there any recourse for something like this, or should I just see that as immature behavior and a sore loser and move on. Or am I nor getting something about etiquette?
Thanks.
It's his problem. If you want, you can report him and post a link to the game in the report. Other than that, you should just move on; there will always be people who are bad sports.
I'm a fan of leaving notes on people's profiles when they are jerks. You could leave a note that says "wants takeback after making a calculated but terrible move, then runs out clock when refused."
Another option: only allow takebacks in causal games.
In ( http://en.lichess.org/pHTsQvYK/black#6 ), I accidentally placed the queen one square short! (I think I had unintentionally jerked my hand just enough that it highlighted the previous square as I released the button from the drag-and-drop motion.) Fortunately, this rarely happens to me in lichess. (Happened a lot more often before when I played online 8 ball which made me miscue and lose my turn.) However, I have takebacks disabled so I resigned after apologizing in chat for having to prematurely end the game.
Hmm, I also noticed that some (or all?) of my game chats don't get recorded when I take a look at them later. ~,~'
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