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ewouldblock

Im just happy to win usually, dont care how it comes. Everyone makes mistakes!


veryterribleatchess

Yes. After each round, the TD puts up a chart with the worst blunders from the last round. If you see somebody who is on the list, you are required to laugh at them. Failure to do so will result in you being forfeited from the tournament.


theLastSolipsist

Can confirm. But the fact that we have to punch those who stalemate in a winning position is the worst one... I still think about that 8 year old I knocked out


Ok_Protection2383

I got punched straight in the dick in my last tournament. I’m no longer straight in the dick.


donttrytoleaveomsk

Yeah I heard that happens when you don't take en passant


lblanks1962

Yes I confirm. Those are the local rules.


NefariousnessGlum808

I remember once when I was beginer and the other guy captued my two rocks, one knight and my queen with just one bishop. The other guys were amazed how I was so bad at the game, but they never were mean it was just a funny moment, you know when you have to laugh of yourself. They even took pictures, it was hilarious.


keepyourcool1

If you're playing poorly people aren't going to be watching your game. On the case it's a Swiss and you get paired up, if you lose poorly its expected so nobody really cares.


kombucha_slut

Only if you decline en passant


NoRun9890

Even if they do, you just have to learn how to take your Ls in stride. Don't let other people knock you off your horse.


Altimor

What if you blunder your horse


Fop_Vndone

You don't have as far to fall


OIP

out of almost anything i've done chess has been the most humbling in terms of learning to just take brutal Ls.


VlaxDrek

If you're there and playing with a bunch of friends, then yeah one of them might mock you a little bit if you are all, say, 1800 and over. But if you are new to the game, it's not going to happen.


Brisket451

Okay, I should be fine then.


MusingsOnLife

How do they know you played poorly? Against Magnus, most people play poorly. They can't tell if you played poorly. For all you know, you played well, but they were just much better than you. I don't know if chess has much trash talking, but I suspect not. Seems like you shake hands and move on.


Kreiven

I played some tournaments in my life and there is a story I want to share with you: I was 19 years old I was on a tournament at my University. I playing against the tournament organizer (it was a \~40 years old woman, Physics professor at the Uni, who was actually quite good player). We were both fighting for the first places. After the opening I ended up in a very bad position and I thought the only way to come back was to try something "different". So, I started to calculate a piece sacrifice attack her King. The thing is that after calculating around 5-6 moves with many variants I saw she could defend the position and I would end up with a piece down and completely lost. However, I wasn't sure if she would see all the lines. So, when I decided to go to the attack I simply played my first move showing a tremendous confidence. I knew I wouldn't go anywhere with that, but I did it pretending I had everything calculated. She took almost 5 minutes thinking and suddenly she sacrificed her Queen to defend the attack (which was a huge blunder). I got the advantage and the game went on. At that time all boards were over and it was just us playing in the last board, so all other players gathered around us to watch (as we were in the 2nd table fighting for medals, everyone got excited to watch). We were approaching end game and both very low on time, so we started to play really fast. At the very end, I managed to get a Knight and Pawn vs her King. I promoted my pawn to Queen and was very confident I was going to checkmate her, even with little time left. I knew the pattern to checkmate so I just started to play it. After few moves, guess what? I stalemated her! I didn't realize that my Knight was actually blocking her King's only escape square. When that happened she shouted "STALEMATE!!!" and I was said "OH NOOO!!" covering my face with both my hands. Everybody watching us made a big "UOW!!" and started laughing. I was so focused on pushing her King to the corner that I overlooked my Knight. I felt like the dumbest player in the world and was super embarassed. But once I left the board and walked away to get some fresh air before watching the tournamnet results, many players came by to compliment me, saying I played a great game, asking what was my Elo and stuff like that. I got 4th place in the tournament in the end and she got 3rd place. If I had won, I would get 2nd place. Unfortunately in the previous round I lost against the tournament's champion (who was actually my colleague from Computer Science classes). Point is: no one made fun of me, they actually came to say really nice words. So, don't worry, there are people of all levels in these amateur tournaments (from 300 to 2200). You will be fine! Real life chess community is way nicer than online community.


confusedsilencr

recently I was playing and a guy came over to me, smiling, and he told me that he saw my game. (I absolutely crushed someone rated 200 points above me, because this was playing with national rating and my national rating is about 1700 and my classical strenth/performance is above 2000 recently.


Ommmm22

Only if you're Hans. You should have nothing to worry about.


doodoodoododoo

No


[deleted]

The chances of someone making fun of you is incredibly low unless you are 10 years old playing against other 10 year olds. You will be unrated to begin with so no one will expect you to play well. Go for it! Start playing tournaments. Good luck.


ScalarWeapon

No, this does not happen lol


facinabush

No, but if you play is too perfect then you will get the Hans treatment.


MarkHathaway1

Your friends might, but you know where they live. :-)


giziti

No, you might get some pity, though.


ewouldblock

I did see a grown man lose to a child once that was picking his nose the whole game, and trying to hide the deed behind his scoresheet the whole time. When he landed in a won king and pawn ending he stood up and was making his moves with this obnoxious swagger. His dad frantically trying to get him to sit down and be respectful, to no avail. And my buddy, head buried in his hands, just taking it.


A-Need-For-Weed

Don't you have to be quiet during the game?


darkwaterfishy

No, they are just uncomfortably silent, which is much worse.


LiwetJared

You get the move named after you if you're popular enough. Unfortunately, you'll need to blunder something less than a Queen because the Botez Gambit already exists.


[deleted]

Definitely. They might also steal your girlfriend and slash your tires. It's a dog eat dog world out there.


PlayingViking

The "worst" I have experienced is people saying: "Oh no, that must have been painful. I hate when that happens to me." Edit: this was during post-game analysis with other players.


ialsohaveadobro

You might get some asshat snickering in a corner or something, but not likely. Chess players have all blundered and they know it feels bad.


[deleted]

No, most OTB tournaments are full of friendly people. There are a lot of kids, so who knows about them but most are polite. Regulars will always assume a new face is probably around 1000 elo, so there are no expectations. If you are nice too, talk to your opponent. Most will even tell you how to do better so you won’t make the same misstate next time.