16-04-2015, 01:13 PM
Hi Ian,
You are mixing up cheating with stupidity in the heat of the moment.
A cheat takes a mobile to a game fully intent on using it. It is premeditated.
You cannot decide before a game that you will start dropping pieces on the floor,
claim spurious draws or anything like that. 99.99% of games are played without any incident.
Most(all) of this silliness that I have witnessed is spur of the moment stuff and
often regretted 5 minutes later.
King, Knight & Bishop v King.
In such cases just play it out. It easy doing it v a computer in the safety of your bedroom.
Much harder doing it v a human with a clock ticking and a sniggering crowd watching.
The worse thing about a crowd around your board is they are blocking your way to the toilet.
By coincidence I recently posted an example (one of 32 I have on record)
where a player stalemated their opponent in the wrong corner.
And I always take delight in showing it being done in the 'wrong corner'.
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(where you also get a picture for your scrap book of me leaning against a Black Rook.)
You are mixing up cheating with stupidity in the heat of the moment.
A cheat takes a mobile to a game fully intent on using it. It is premeditated.
You cannot decide before a game that you will start dropping pieces on the floor,
claim spurious draws or anything like that. 99.99% of games are played without any incident.
Most(all) of this silliness that I have witnessed is spur of the moment stuff and
often regretted 5 minutes later.
King, Knight & Bishop v King.
In such cases just play it out. It easy doing it v a computer in the safety of your bedroom.
Much harder doing it v a human with a clock ticking and a sniggering crowd watching.
The worse thing about a crowd around your board is they are blocking your way to the toilet.
By coincidence I recently posted an example (one of 32 I have on record)
where a player stalemated their opponent in the wrong corner.
And I always take delight in showing it being done in the 'wrong corner'.
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(where you also get a picture for your scrap book of me leaning against a Black Rook.)