Beating arrogance

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mm40

I said in my comments that the opening moves were fine - up to me to show him the errors of his ways


Thanking me for the win just made me chuckle but was disrespectful and was in my memory on move 22

The comments he made on move 22 really annoyed me - it wasn't just telling me to hurry up, it was telling me to play a massive blunder, which, I would have to guess (as he was a far, far better player than me, as he told me), he saw was a massive blunder.

dblackwell (and others who think I'm the really loser here)

There's definitely mixed opinions about torturous endgames to "punish" gamesmanship. My opinion - a bit childish maybe, but deserved in some cases, especially this one (it takes earlier disrespectful comments in a game to make me do this). I wouldn't do this to someone who has been a friendly and polite opponent (so that's most people on the main site and the majority of those on the livechess site who I would play to win by the quickest route possible)

gabrielconroy

What you should have done is surround his king with knights so its caught in a net of potential checks and can't move. He has to move a pawn forward; do this until he's one move away from stalemate, and then resign to show that it was a point of honour. That is the samurai way (possibly).