Have you ever break a clock smashing it during a game ?

Have you ever break a clock smashing it during a game ?  It looks and sounds that some players play chess just because they enjoy to hit hard the clocks !

If my opponent keeps smashing on the clock I request him to stop that. It drains the life expectency of the clock which in effect drains the cash of our club.

So, no :D.

No

i have smashed clocks....but nothing to do with chess.

+1

Back in HS a pal got mad when I beat him and when he slammed his fist down on my nice onyx board he put a great big "fault line" (ie crack) in it.

I used to use those old-fashioned round alarm clocks with the two ringers on top back in the prehistoric days before PCs and cell phones because it was always satisfying to fling them across the room when they woke me up in the morning. Some of them lasted for several tosses before giving up the ghost.

Don't smash the clocks!  Think of all the lost time you could have saved!

Clock, no.  A piece of one of my bishops, yes.

Years ago one of my opponents and I were analyzing our tournament game in the tournament skittles room and at one point he slammed a bishop so hard against the board (or another piece, I don't remember) that he took a chunk out of it.  That was a nice set, too.

Since then I have a policy... I don't bring my nicer sets to tourneys. 

I had a clock for about two weeks, but I kept beating my opponent (bigpoison) over the board. Finally after another humiliating loss, he knocked the clock off the table and broke it. He claims it was accidental, but he still refuses to buy another clock.

Sheer nonsense.  Playing outdoors on a TV tray slightly bigger than the chess board with a cheap analog clock. 

Why would I break the clock rather than flip the board over on you and then stomp off like a petulant child.

Oh, I see.. So was it the TV tray's fault or the "cheap analog" clock's fault?

MANY TIMES

lol 

 LOL... too funny.

I have had students drop too many clocks and break 'em on the hard floors of my classroom. Through years of careful statistical recording and observations... I have concluded that the "blue" digital clocks last on average 4.5 falls from desk level and the analogs 3.2.... All accidental of course.

Now on the other hand Ive had a few students throw their King upon losing in disgust... and break the little cross at the top. Its seems that its almost always the Black King that loses it cross and not the White.

Anybody no why? Weaker plastic? lol

You have to be Dutch to make such a remark (or perhaps Scottish)

Black Kings get thrown more often, because white has a greater winning %.

Ever since bigpoison beat me, I understand more and more, what a bigbully he has become.

I bet he didn't even offer to meet you half-way with the expense.

I've played bughouse and broken a lot of pieces because I have very little hand eye coordination.

He's too stingy for that

bigpoison was very gleeful after beating you yesterday. I haven't seen him so happy in awhile, he even did a little song and dance!