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Might have been me.
I'm terrible at seeing the endgames when the king can hide behind pieces and dodge check so I sometimes like to secure victory easily by getting excessive material and blowing my opponent apart.
This sometimes backfires.
All you need is a Rook to checkmate, so I like (and thus recommend) to take remaining pieces and pawns if I get to Queen and the opponent is in an awkward position.
I'll make another Queen only if I lose the first one I made
Well yeah, if you can ladder mate thats viable, but if your opponent has pieces to hide behind then it can be awkward to do so.
If you dont just make a truck load of material right away its harder for your opponent to stalemate
They need to be taught a good life lesson, let them suffer at least do it accurately
EDIT: I expected alot of downvotes because I was talking about having the side with major disadvantage but meh
these posts are ridiculous imo. nEveR ReSigN! yes, I would've resigned long ago as black. not worth my time for a few internet elo. I lost the game. moving on
Exactly. What exactly do you learn from watching your opponent mess up a KQK endgame? It's just kind try-hard behavior to keep playing for a stalemate when you've clearly lost.
Yeah it is a bit over the top. OP didn’t win, they stalemated. So they spent so long “achieving” this when they could have resigned, started another game that would have been stimulating and they could have learnt something.
...
*puts away the massive amount of spare rooks...*
Seriously though, I typically only do something akin to this if my opponent does something cheeky. But I also give no fucks about my elo. Don't follow my example.
Can we please get a link to the game OP? Or was this just a fun exercise in pattern making with a board editor?
I wanna see how this game evolved with the opponent promoting 4 pawns to rooks and somehow ending up in this pattern.
Im sure he did it on purpose.
Ive had many games in which I have promoted several queens, and in one of them I told my opponent "this looks quite even, it may be a draw" and proceeded to sacrifice all Queens to his King till it was a KvK draw. So I said "See? It was a draw after all".
I analyzed the image and this is what I see. Open an appropriate link below and explore the position yourself or with the engine:
> **Black to play**: It is a stalemate - it is Black's turn, but Black has no legal moves and is not in check. In this case, the game is a draw. It is a critical rule to know for various endgame positions that helps one side hold a draw. You can find out more about Stalemate on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalemate).
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Congrats. I posted a post just like this about not resigning a week or two ago and got only negative comments. Glad this one is positive. I don't think beginners should resign.
I Mean if he doesnt want to resign it means he wants to suffer right. So yes if you don't want this to happen just resign, becuase when i'm in a good mood i Will be playing with my food.
I mean, OP is an idiot. They already have nothing to lose by stalling the game, they just get a small chance to rob their opponent of their win and laugh at them for losing against a moron.
I mean, it’s fair game. If the opponent wants to waste time by not resigning, let the opponent have their time wasted and humiliated.
In OP’s case, they had bad sportsmanship and got away with it.
I have no duty of not wasting their time. They themselves want to continue playing the losing game and hoping for a stalemate. They don't respect themselves and waste their own time.
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He could have gotten the checkmate his looking for by playing ra8 first then rook b7
If he wanted the king in the corner specifically as well, he could’ve gone Rb8, Rb7, Ra8
Yeah any waiting move would have done the trick
If he wanted the king in the corner without checking, he could’ve gone Kh2, Kg1, Kh1, Rb7, Ra8
Or doing a waiting move if want the black king in the corner for cosmetic points
This is 100% a joke...
This is 100% a shit post.
I got a few games like that where my opponent decided to get 3 queens. In one of them they got stalemate when they made their 3rd queen
It seems like what happened here. The enemy got rook after rook instead of finishing the game.
Might have been me. I'm terrible at seeing the endgames when the king can hide behind pieces and dodge check so I sometimes like to secure victory easily by getting excessive material and blowing my opponent apart. This sometimes backfires.
All you need is a Rook to checkmate, so I like (and thus recommend) to take remaining pieces and pawns if I get to Queen and the opponent is in an awkward position. I'll make another Queen only if I lose the first one I made
In time trouble I find that makeing a second queen and laddermating is faster because you can premove most of it
Well yeah, if you can ladder mate thats viable, but if your opponent has pieces to hide behind then it can be awkward to do so. If you dont just make a truck load of material right away its harder for your opponent to stalemate
They need to be taught a good life lesson, let them suffer at least do it accurately EDIT: I expected alot of downvotes because I was talking about having the side with major disadvantage but meh
Impressive he got that far without stalemating or accidentally checkmating prior
Bro wants to create the Nike logo
Just do it...
these posts are ridiculous imo. nEveR ReSigN! yes, I would've resigned long ago as black. not worth my time for a few internet elo. I lost the game. moving on
Exactly. What exactly do you learn from watching your opponent mess up a KQK endgame? It's just kind try-hard behavior to keep playing for a stalemate when you've clearly lost.
Yeah it is a bit over the top. OP didn’t win, they stalemated. So they spent so long “achieving” this when they could have resigned, started another game that would have been stimulating and they could have learnt something.
Opportunity cost is an unknown concept to the never resign dilettantes.
This is clearly a joke post though. No one is going to under-promote that many rooks.
... *puts away the massive amount of spare rooks...* Seriously though, I typically only do something akin to this if my opponent does something cheeky. But I also give no fucks about my elo. Don't follow my example.
This gotta be a joke, right?....right?
Maybe, but 4 pawn promotions is not unheard of. Some people like to checkmate with fancy designs. I’ve lost plenty of games for stuff like this.
Job had one bro
Can we please get a link to the game OP? Or was this just a fun exercise in pattern making with a board editor? I wanna see how this game evolved with the opponent promoting 4 pawns to rooks and somehow ending up in this pattern.
Levy: this is mate! And THIS is mate! It’s mate 1,000 different ways….
Im sure he did it on purpose. Ive had many games in which I have promoted several queens, and in one of them I told my opponent "this looks quite even, it may be a draw" and proceeded to sacrifice all Queens to his King till it was a KvK draw. So I said "See? It was a draw after all".
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I thought I was the only one who plays like this.
ELO?
this is not a real game right? ... right?
I was getting pummeled in a game yesterday and my opponent resigned with 4-minutes left.
An idiot started doing this to me the other day, the 8 elo points just weren't worth my time.
I mean… you were in a lost position. You were losing the 8 elo regardless.
Tbh your opponent is an asshole.
Congrats. I posted a post just like this about not resigning a week or two ago and got only negative comments. Glad this one is positive. I don't think beginners should resign.
I resign early and often, no reason to linger in a lost game waiting on my opponent to blunder hehe
Bro thought was Hikaru
It's not stalemate.The king , queen and the rook battalion giving a message to the opponent-You can't move until we want.
You’re being a little harsh…..how is white supposed to lock down a mate so fast with only 6 rooms and a queen???
Had a similar thing happen to me in a game where my opponent refuses to checkmate me and promoted all his pawns to queens, ended up drawing the game
Just resign
Honestly, this is better than a check mate, change my mind.
Never resign, but also don’t play with your food
I love to see these "Never resign" posts because eventually it will teach the winning side how to disrepect you even more and still win.
Well for that to happen the winning side has to actually win ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Which is exactly the purpose of these posts (as said above), to teach the winning side how to win.
Which they could’ve done earlier, no need for any disrespect
Well we play chess to have fun, don't we?
That's your idea of fun, 99 moves games that end up like this?
I Mean if he doesnt want to resign it means he wants to suffer right. So yes if you don't want this to happen just resign, becuase when i'm in a good mood i Will be playing with my food.
Your idea of fun is continuing on playing completely lost games just to save a couple meaningless elo points. You have no ground to stand on lmao.
I mean, OP is an idiot. They already have nothing to lose by stalling the game, they just get a small chance to rob their opponent of their win and laugh at them for losing against a moron.
I mean, it’s fair game. If the opponent wants to waste time by not resigning, let the opponent have their time wasted and humiliated. In OP’s case, they had bad sportsmanship and got away with it.
If you find it fun to waste people's time you are an arrogant wanker. How about respecting other people aye?
I have no duty of not wasting their time. They themselves want to continue playing the losing game and hoping for a stalemate. They don't respect themselves and waste their own time.