Yes, it’s considered good sportsmanship to immediately resign if your opponent en passants you, so the game should end there.

I feel like I’m still learning a lot, but my elo has stalled a bit too. Just going to keep at it.

This is sure to send my elo to Mars!

You took that away from me too, huh?

Oh, time to check out the new bots!

Life comes first, and I hope everything goes well with the upcoming surgery @[email protected]. Please don’t add a single bit of stress regarding anything on lemmy to your life right now.

I didn’t catch this drama live, but someone linked it to me after the fact, and I was honestly pretty disappointed to see an admin talk to users this way. I don’t think the reporter was wrong to notify the admins that someone was advocating murder on their instance, and they certainly didn’t deserve to be banned and mocked for it.

Then I started seeing other similar posts (like the one Blaze linked in a different comment) showing that this wasn’t an isolated thing, and I was a bit disheartened because I love sharing memes here, but it’s really hard to build a community when users are worried about an admin lashing out at them. I’ve lost some trust. =(

And I thought losing streaks online could be stressful.

I’ve never been to a tournament. What does an arbiter do if you were to call them over? Extra time? Automatic forfeit?

Because maybe the pressure you apply to doing something for someone else exceeds what you do for yourself.

(Or I could just be speaking for myself here)

It’s like you’re me.

Chess with some cardio

I know there are lots of gymnasts, musicians, ballet dancers, olympic athletes, etc. that probably feel that exact way, although I’m sure many also are grateful to have had the guidance. It probably depends on how much the kids enjoyed the game vs feeling pressured.

I’ve read some about how fiercely competitive Judit was as a kid - demanding to play against the boys because she didn’t like that everyone expected her to play in the women’s leagues. She’s incredible and is living proof that women can achieve the same level of play as men (which sounds obvious today, but she became a GM 30 years ago).

Just awful and tragic. All those families =(

It’s the same reason you don’t play chess around mirrors.

Or Treebeard tell a story?

They truly do be like: “failed to load media”

It makes you go blind.

Don’t worry, you’ll forget about it soon.

This has to be the best case outcome, lol

Haha, I don’t think I believe that black could win!