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macer75

Oct 14, 2013

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#21

TurboFish wrote:

macer75 wrote

I don't really have a problem with draw spammers, because I can just ignore their draw offers. It's not like in an actual OTB game, where if someone offers me a draw I have to respond with a yes or a no.

OTB rules do not require a verbal when declining a draw offer. To decline, simply make a legal move and hit your clock. If you consider this rude, then a simple nod of the head would be better than a verbal answer since talking may distract the players nearby.

Oic... I haven't really played in any formal OTB games, so I'm not really that clear on normal procedures and that kind of stuff. Btw, how do you offer a draw in OTB? Do you do it verbally, or do you just reach out your hand (but that could also be interpreted as resigning, right?), or something else?

Ziryab

Oct 14, 2013

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#22

macer75 wrote:

TurboFish wrote:

macer75 wrote

I don't really have a problem with draw spammers, because I can just ignore their draw offers. It's not like in an actual OTB game, where if someone offers me a draw I have to respond with a yes or a no.

OTB rules do not require a verbal when declining a draw offer. To decline, simply make a legal move and hit your clock. If you consider this rude, then a simple nod of the head would be better than a verbal answer since talking may distract the players nearby.

Oic... I haven't really played in any formal OTB games, so I'm not really that clear on normal procedures and that kind of stuff. Btw, how do you offer a draw in OTB? Do you do it verbally, or do you just reach out your hand (but that could also be interpreted as resigning, right?), or something else?

Verbal is best.

On Saturday, when I reached out my hand to resign, my opponent wanted verbal clarification that I was in fact resigning. We have a history. In a blitz event several years ago, I reached out to resign just as his time expired. Just as I reached out, he and I both noted the clock. My gesture intended as resignation became, "thanks for the game." He no longer trusts my handshake because we're friends and six months after the blitz game I told him the truth.

On Saturday, he feared my handshake was a draw offer although he was two pieces up (I am much higher rated).

bean_Fischer

Oct 14, 2013

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#23

Is putting the K laying on the board can be taken as resignation?

Spiritbro77

Oct 14, 2013

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#24

A loss should be looked upon as a learning experience. Everyone gets beat at chess sometimes. Fischer lost games. If you can't stand the thought of losing, and use it as a reason to insult your opponent, you should take up a new game. Though I can't think of a game where one never experiences a loss.... When you win, you should remember the times you got beat and be gracious. Next time it could be you on the L side.... When I was growing up we were taught these concepts. Shame that no longer seems to be the case....

TurboFish

Oct 14, 2013

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#25

macer75 wrote: Oic... I haven't really played in any formal OTB games, so I'm not really that clear on normal procedures and that kind of stuff. Btw, how do you offer a draw in OTB? Do you do it verbally, or do you just reach out your hand (but that could also be interpreted as resigning, right?), or something else? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Offer the draw verbally, but in as quiet a voice as is practical. As Ziryab mentioned, offering your handshake could easily be misinterpreted as resignation. The draw offer is really the only time in tournament OTB chess that speaking is necessary.