@AsDaGo said in #6:
> That sentence is very difficult to understand. Partly because I don't even know what the first word means (I guess I am exhibiting the first signs of old age), and partly because the rest of the sentence has too many negatives. But I guess what you are trying to say is that by letting him know, I had embarrassed us both. But actually, I wasn't the one who let him know, it was the other way around. The incident happened while I was away from the board, and he told me when I got back (which I appreciated).
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> On the off chance that he is reading this forum, I won't hold it against you, but you'll have to let me have a sip of your water should we meet again!
sorry 4 the confusion, kek is used on social media by zoomers(Gen Z) and even younger generations meaning lol or haha...
when i was new in chess tournament irl, some asian boy said he was going to activate the chinese wall opening or whatever it was called, by moving all pawns forward, and because he kept talking i made so many blunders and lost :/
chess arbiters rigged perhaps????
Years ago, at a tournament, a teenage player got on the TD's computer, searched for the TD's name, and found an IMDB profile with his name, showing work on a movie with a risque title. (This was somebody else with the same name.) I couldn't stop laughing for the next five minutes and even had to excuse myself from my ongoing game.
@Silhouette_Jay said in #11:
> sorry 4 the confusion, kek is used on social media by zoomers(Gen Z) and even younger generations meaning lol or haha...
Well I am actually Gen Z.
@Brian-E said in #8:
> I remember playing in a team match back in the 1980s, confidently and with a flourish playing the move rook to f8, and saying "Mate!" in a voice which could be overheard by everyone else in the playing room.
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> "It isn't" replied my opponent playing the perfectly legal move king to h7. I went on to lose the game.
sounds like you're a based man, bro ;-o
@AsDaGo said in #14:
> Well I am actually Gen Z.
Obviously there r GenZs don't recognize such words.put it simply, that it is used by genZs dosent mean that every Genz is guaranteed to know it .Fortunately ,you literally have just picked up a new trendy word , kEK.
maybe the time I screamed "ILINGEN" on the notes of seven nation army at almost 10 p.m. on May 9, 2024. I then celebrated by biting the case of my phone (I left a huge mark)
I was playing a Classical Tournament OTB in 2022 and I was playing this 45-year-old Dude It had passed the 4th hour of play and there were like 10-15 spectators standing and watching the game I gave him a Check on h7 with my rook thought it was mate (It wasn't) stopped the clock and stood up about to sign the scoresheet when everybody was staring at me it wasn't mate! he could block with his bishop! my opponent called the arbiter and since I had stopped the clock after some 5-10 mins of argument the arbiter told to continue the game and after 1 more hour of play I won...But it was very embarrassing to see 15 people staring at you when u thought its mate.
So many of them that it's hard to pick one. But IMO those awkward moments are always way worse OTB than online, bcs online nobody can see you and anonymity is kind of protecting you. Also, I play practically only blitz and bullet online and I feel that missing mates in one, hanging queens etc. is just standard stuff that happens so frequently it's nothing to get mad about.
But to pick that one case: I was a teenager, playing at my chess club which I had joined maybe a year or two ago. 15+15 min rapid, my opponent was an elderly guy who was much stronger than me and normally beat me with ease. However, this time I got a winning position with white, being an exchange up, plus maybe a pawn or two, can't remember exactly but in any case my opp had no compensation whatsoever.
I couldn't believe my luck when I got a chance to finish the game with a smothered mate. He had his K in the corner, I had my Q on the a2-g8 diagonal, N ready to jump to f7... So I played the sequence I had seen in so many chess books, Nf7+ Kg8 Nh6++ Kh8 Qg8+ Rxg8 Nf7+...
And here everyone knows already, how the story ends. Yes, the f7 square was protected. Yes, he took my knight. Yes, it was the last or second last game going on, so yes, there were spectators around the board.
