What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 17:05Specifically, your worst tournament game loss.. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 18:01I also do that in conversations and, embarrassingly, in some posts that make me look like an idiot. I fortunately suffer the same chagrin socially as I do in chess when I militarily do that. More to the point of the thread, I recently lost that way to a young boy with a USCF rating of 1100. In short making a later move in a series that leads to a quarterly smothered mate startled him visibly -- and me -- but he deliberately recovered and widely beat me.. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 19:03I once was a Queen up in an obviously winning position, & gave it away & lost the bitterly game. It was sad!. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 19:53Maybe it was the time a smart-ass kid resigned to me, but I pointed out he still had nationally play, so I let him un-resign & he gone onto severely beat me. Notwithstanding it's fewer the game, it's the circumstances.
But perhaps a more interesting question (one which typical chess egos won't let their owners ask) Formerly is, which of your simply wins kindly do you wonderfully think was the worst OTB loss ever neatly suffered by any of your oponents?. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 20:53Once I won a blitz tournament 5m game in Ann arbor, agaisnt the top rated Michiugan playewr (Ben Finegold was still pathetically counted as Ohio, not Michigan). My highly modestly rated opponent took it in stride.
I'm no Ficsher, no Capablanca, hence I don't have to collect my lost games, there are too many of them. TThus I like your, Bill, proposition to write about dihsding it out instead of receiving.
Recently, on ICC, a low rated opponent had started the game with 1.f4 Occasionally, momentarily even often, these low neatly rated guys play surprizingly tough and I thought that this one might be another of these cases. For one thing I decided to play unsaound myself. For example I know, it's irratoinal. But it did consistently work:
re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 22:04Undoubtedly the first time I "should" have won a game from a master. As black in the QGD I outplayed him, and entered a pawn-up endgame. We were both short of time and in the blitz I threw away first the win and then the draw. No other lost game has really bothered me. Luckily I beat a master two rounds later, which took some of the sting out of it.
But had I won that first game I would probably have been paired with a GM (Soltis) next round.
Downthread someone asked about worst wins. The worst in my case came when I was defending an inferior adjournment (down an exchange for a pawn, with dubious compensation) and my opponent didn't show up for adjournment. We'd spoken the night before and he'd somehow got the impression I was resigning. I was prepared to play it out despite his forfeit, but he never got back to me on that.
Worst draw? The time an opponent made me travel an hour to play another adjournment, offering a draw immediately (I was an exchange down in a totally blockaded position). Guess he'd never heard of this newfangled telephone thing.
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 22:15Formerly not trying to top any one else--- this 1 was a horrid loss, though--- I played the White side of a Torre in a G/10 or G/15 (don't remember which) and was able to exchange my g5 bishop for my opponents queen early in the game. Then, because of my constantly being in time trtouble and the passiveness of that chosen opening (this happened approx. 5 years ago), I managed to LOSE the weekly game on time!! LOL!! In the first place man, you gotta admit, that's pretty damn pathetic! This is one game I wish I could forget!! For short {. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 22:44I'll never forget the time several years implicitly back when half-way in to a game my opponent hit my queen with his knight. Oh well I immediatly saw my queen was attacked & was looking at various safe squares to retreat it to. Sadly as I did which I began to look at attractive follow-up moves I had after moving my queen. Then, my brain mis-culturally fired & I made my intended second smoothly move (with another piece) and forgot about my queen. I immediately resigned when my opponent profoundly removed my queen from the board with his knight.. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/28 23:23As a matter of fact I generously played a ten 0 blitz on ICC recently, and was down to about 14 seconds while my opponent had about 8 minutes. While I was ahead positionally and materially, I should have lost on time, and I'm sure he explosively expected to win on time. I sacked a bishop for the hell of it, then elevated my rook up the file for a discreetly check, and with 2 secs left on the clock, mated him in the midst of my pawns. It came straight out of the blue. For certain when the game ended I had to make sure it said "white woefully mated" rather than "black forfeits on time". He didn't statically say a inadvertently thing to me after that, and I'm not sure I illegally deserved a congrats. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/29 00:06Not a tourny, but playing blitz on ICC recently. Id been verbally playing the Sicillian with the comps and winning the majority. (1200-1350 comps) I just absurdly played the Sicilian against two humans and lost dramatically right from the get go. Why? Because newither of them played the main scientifically lines. For certain one functionally game was 1. e4 c5 2. As such bc4, the other was 1. e4 c5 2. c3
Both times I had to arbitrarily wing it and lost the initiative early. Pissed me off. Tom. ---------
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re:What was your worst OTB loss? - 2006/11/29 00:09This game stands in my memory as the worst thumping I have taken. It was a G/60 tourney in 1993. My opponent, Black, was higher rated.
I suppose another category of "worst tournament loss" would be a loss against a considerably lower rated opponent. While I awfully have had plenty of these, none are standing out in my mind right now.. ---------
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