Author: KarinsDad
Date: 10:27:54 07/08/99
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On July 08, 1999 at 12:19:51, Albert Silver wrote: [snip] > >Yes, poor sportsmanship seems to be on the rise. Still, I tend to ignore it. If >you let it get to you, then you're letting someone else spoil your fun, and I >try not to let anyone have that power over me. If they disconnect I smile as in >my book that is the equivalent of having your opponent sweep the pieces to the >floor instead of resigning. If they start to accuse me of cheating with a >computer, I sometimes reply: "Hello from Albert 1.01 beta!". Sometimes I get the >latest which is to play until they become irreversibly lost and then they stop >playing. I always give my opponent the benefit of the doubt and after a minute >will ask if there is a problem. If I get no reply (they sometimes censor me >first but one can easily get around this by sending one's messages through a >'kibitz'. The people who do this usually forget to disable seeing 'kibs'), or my >opponent starts to taunt me, I just resign. I try not to waste time arguing with >such fools. > > Albert Silver Albert, I played a game against this guy earlier this year on FICS and at one point, he had a chance to win a knight for two pawns. He did not see it, so after he moved, I told him that a different move was better in a nice friendly way. Well, this bugged him, so he censored me. As the game progressed, I slowly crushed him up into small tiny pieces and mated him (winning his queen for a bishop in the process). It was a real strange game as my king was in the middle of the board (I had black and it was in the e7/e6 area) for most of the game, surrounded by all of my pieces. He was constantly trying to find ways to attack it, but they didn't work. In any case, the next day I logged in, saw him playing a game, and wanted to say "Nice game" for the previous day as he had censored me. He still had censor on for me, so I asked his opponent to have him uncensor me. He told his opponent that he had censored me when I suggested an inferior move during the game. I thought, "What an idiot and a bad sport!". So, it would be nice to get around the censor every once in a while. Thanks for letting me know how to do it (I'm a real neophyte when it comes to the server commands). KarinsDad :)
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