i have run into several players who started playing give away
after they got a lost game
why ???????
whats the point
they are going to lose
giving away pieces as fast as possible wont make it a bigger loss
do they think somehow they might get a stale mate?
or are they just too immature to resign
anybody understand the psychology of the chess players mind ??
at least here on line the overall culture is far different than otb at a club
I have seen this too...I just indulge them , and even if I have to get my material advantage to + 23 in order to eventually mate them I will. LoL Most likely they are beginner urchins who like to be abused. :]
@Abyssinia i am more than willing to indulge them
i take all the pieces then hunt down all the pawns
then start promoting my pawns to horsies and bishops
mostly horsies though
sometimes they resign
occasionally i will mate them on move 99 or so
they want stalemate
#3 is a great answer.
I've struggled with how to handle a losing position, though. I once resigned, unaware that I was one move from being mated. I apologized to my opponent because I felt I robbed him of his glory. Another time, I asked my opponent if he wanted to practice his endgame, because I was clearly beaten (he didn't answer, so I resigned). Another time, I saw the inevitable mate and took off trading (losing) pieces because, who knows, at my level my opponent may blunder?
I for one disagree with the above posters who think one poor act of sportsmanship deserves another. Both acts only serve to further perpetuate the activity.
A player starts to throw away pieces is being disrespectful. Why prolong the game to great lengths, wasting your time when playing another fresh game is available? Just to be disrespectful back ??? Proving what ? That you can be a bigger jerk than them ?
I think it is more of an example of such players are not really playing for the enjoyment, but rather they have "something to prove."
Resigning is always accepted as honorable, up to one move before checkmate. Never let your King be mated! On the rare occasion we'll see GM's allow a mate to be played out, showing respect to the other players exclamation sacrifice/combination for the audiences approval, but this is very infrequent indeed.
If anyone understands the psyche of chess players it's Li'l Puppet. It's why LP is here. There can be almost as many explanations as there are individual players for this action. The rationale behind this maneuver, can be as simple or as complex as the game itself. Many people assume that the link between emotion and behavior is one-way: That's false. Most of the time, behavior actually shapes emotion. Perhaps these are younger players as it is believed that the brain's judgment-control systems develop more slowly than emotion-governing systems, not maturing until people are in their mid-20s. So these younger players will act more erratically than than the older, more mature players. The best one can do is to chillax and move on. It is, after internet chess. Stress begets ill health - not good to "stew" about the actions of others. It "helps" at times to report these ruffians, and Li'l Puppet has been doing just that.
^^ "There can be as many explanations as there are individual players".
A not so brilliant deduction. Of course, everybody has their own explanation, as if their particular reasoning justifies the action taken. That somehow they "stand apart" from others who choose a similar course. Complex explanations can be broken down to simpler ones. That is the challange/point of undertaking a study.
Is not the "Study" of human nature a sociological one? Of groups of people where patterns emerge from past experiences and present conditions. If every case were truly individual, with no two cases sharing similar causes, any study would lead nowhere.
#6 "Why prolong the game to great lengths, wasting your time when playing another fresh game is available? Just to be disrespectful back ??? Proving what ? "
I sometimes enjoy looking for uncommon mating patterns.
