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Playing on in a `lost` position. - 2006/06/28 07:04
I`ll apologize before hand, I wanted to reply to a previous thread ("this was rude") and lost the post due to some computer problems.
In a tournament game a few months back I was stuck playing a player rated somewhere around 200 points better than myself, somewhere around 1900 to expert I`d guess. I was a rook and a few pawns down in a horridly exposed position, with roughly half the time he had on his clock. However, I held onto the position. As time wore on he grew increasingly more aggrevated and just wanted the game to end, assuming he was completely won in this case he started making poorer and poorer moves. Eventually I won the game.
His actoions afterwards, were to stalk off, punch a wall, and come back to apologize for his attitute, and congradulate me. His post-mortem demeanor was one of, "I had a won position, however I became impatient, rude, and aggrevated with my opponent for just not giving up. I was in the wrong, and because of my actions and the way I treated the position my opponent played better than myself."
After apologizing and congradulating me, and showing me a few mistakes I made earlier in the game, and a few he made later, showing what not to do if ever in his shoes, I have a better respect for him than I had during the game. Indeed, he was being rude, but any chess player with any balls will realize that in a won position, you need to sit back, relax, take it slow and finish it out, not hope your opponent lazily sits back and lets you win, or gives up.
If you win all your games by getting a clear advantage in the middle game, but never have to finish it out, who knows, maybe you CAN`T. Maybe the other player, for holding on and winning is actually better, because he outplayed you in the endgame and won the entire thing, instead of considering the position necessarily lost because he`s a piece down.
The moral of the story? If you`re in a losing position, make your opponent prove his win, unless you _know_ there is no hope of getting it back, or that he is _definately_ good enough to finish it out, or if the position soon to follow this one meets those criteria. As well, if you`re in a winning position, don`t expect your opponent to just give up, and don`t ask it of him. You have a won game, be confident in that fact and if you really think he`s being rude, punish him for it by completely crushing him. Maybe next time he will resign in a completely lost position such as that one.
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