Hello everyone.
I was just wondering about good and bad manners in chess.
you see i can be quite the "talking" player sometime, commenting plays/fails and i read somewhere that it is baldy considered by some player.
I am also getting frustrated in some situation myself : for exemple i have checkmate but my opponent refuse to play his turn and i have to wait the time left. I guess that can be considered BM ?
the opposite i had once an opponent who had checkmate on me but waited until 3 sec left to move his piece..
Anyway, is there some sort of "unoffical" rules of good and bad manners in chess ?
So, if someone had you one move away from checkmate, could you not just resign and be done with it?
Back in the day of Cowboys, they lived by an unwritten code, that only they understood. Good and bad manners were lived by, they were not written down anywhere.
Keep talking to a minimum. People can switch on Zen mode to ignore you, but it's not generally accepted as a good thing.
I will absolutely guarantee you that whatever excitement or variation that you're looking at...whatever wonderful idea that you think it is...your opponent does NOT want to hear about it in the middle of a game.
Talking is not recommended.
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If you have ## in 3, and they walk away from the board, you can report them. That's very bad manners. For other reasons, I block them as well.
Purely playing to win on time used to be considered bad sportsmanlike but seems common now. Must admit if I have a drawn position I offer a draw and if I have a lost position I resign.
When somone has a lost position I think it is bad manners if they then just won't make anymore moves and leave the clock to run down. Sometimes of course it may be computer freezing or interuption of internet connection.
If I just get abusive comments or foul language in the chat box then I tend to block that user after the game.
Ultimately chess should be fun.
Spite checking is considered rude when you will be mated. Unfortunately, Stockfish does not know anything about this and only plays for a win, so once it kept spite-checking me with a knight until the knight could not check anymore, and I mated.
There are unwritten rules in chess that most people follow. Its a code of conduct that goes back to the early days of chess.
I'm slightly autistic, and my first real life chess tournament, I couldn't stop fiddling my pieces, to center them nicely on squares, to align knights perfectly, like to have the slits in bishops aligned "the right way", etc... Having only played on the internet before, I didn't know the brat could suddenly scream out "you touched it! Now you have to move it!" - Forcing me to move a rook that was not supposed to move, costing me the game... Grrrrr - rude! I quit chess for over a decade after that - not playing with these geeks!
Hey the_real_noname, there might be a rule to allow adjusting. I used to watch a couple friends play chess. One of the guys would joke around, adjusting every piece on the board while his friend's clock was running. He would announce, "adjust", with each piece before, touching it.
