@orinharris did you just compare chess to holding the door for somebody? muhahaha..
Do you understand what chess is? When you play rated or in a tournament (or even casual actually) chess is a COMPETITION. It's a sport, your skills versus your opp skills, like boxing. Lasker even called it a 'fight' which is exactly what chess is. The game itself was invented as a wargame.
So you choose to play on a trackpad knowing full well that sooner or later you'll make a slip because of it... your opponent doesn't even know you're using a trackpad so what do you do, you start explaining it to him in chat?
You completely interrupted the flow of the game, you broke your opponent's concentration with your sad trackpad story, and if he doesn't accept HE'S showing bad sportsmanship?
Man up, play chess with a mouse, like everybody here said, mouseslips are part of the game and are the sole responsibility of the one having made them.
And start seeing chess as a competition, instead of holding the door for a little old lady, you'll thank me later when you win more games :)
Do you understand what chess is? When you play rated or in a tournament (or even casual actually) chess is a COMPETITION. It's a sport, your skills versus your opp skills, like boxing. Lasker even called it a 'fight' which is exactly what chess is. The game itself was invented as a wargame.
So you choose to play on a trackpad knowing full well that sooner or later you'll make a slip because of it... your opponent doesn't even know you're using a trackpad so what do you do, you start explaining it to him in chat?
You completely interrupted the flow of the game, you broke your opponent's concentration with your sad trackpad story, and if he doesn't accept HE'S showing bad sportsmanship?
Man up, play chess with a mouse, like everybody here said, mouseslips are part of the game and are the sole responsibility of the one having made them.
And start seeing chess as a competition, instead of holding the door for a little old lady, you'll thank me later when you win more games :)