http://en.lichess.org/eRoyhz1g/black#20I'm having a hard time understanding what I did to make him think I was cheating. At first I thought he was just joking around that I was going out there, but then it turned sour and he just resigned. The game analysis shows that I made more mistakes than he did, and he had the advantage all game. My dark bishop is blocked in, my b8 knight is going to have trouble getting into the game, my other knight is going to have some issues too... I don't see what happened here.
I checked his profile and he had lost the last several games, so maybe it was frustration? Or is there something I'm missing that I actually have going for me right now?
There will always be people who claim you are cheating. Just ignore them; trying to argue won't help.
Interestingly, your position was much worse when he resigned.
You answered your question already: "Player got angry and resigned."
People do weird stuff in anger.
Some chess players become insane
Some people grow old and wise. Some people just grow old.
Yeah it make no sense to resign there. I've gotten some really crazy stuff, but usually after I beat a higher rated opponent in the 1600 to 1800 range. I've been called all number of rude things. I've even had people become so angry that they continue to message me days after the event. It is the internet, I'm surprised it is as civilized as it is quite frankly. The rude usually is somewhere between 1400-1800 strength. People that are 2000+ are way more chill about losing some rating points.
I agree with #7.
People on the internet take things far too personally.
Isn't the "discussion" on the screen (
) a point to actually ban one of the players for unsportive behavior? I think this would make a world better...
It appears to me that he (inaccurately) assumed after you shuffled your queen around like that several times that you were using an engine, since computers often will play those odd little 1-square queen moves rather than developing.
The problem is it's his own fault. He played advance instead of exchange, which encourages the Black player to make a lot of waiting moves or just try to find a slight positional advantage somewhere because the game will be locked down for awhile. And the saddest thing is that you weren't really improving, but he just assumed that is what you were doing (with an engine).
Still that was the sort of reaction I expect in an anon game, not a rated game with a named player. I'd have told him to go back to playing Call of Duty since he obviously knows nothing of chess if he thinks you're an engine user. lol
