#What is the most painful way to end a chess game?

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ember orbit
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🙈

brazen sparrow
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losing on time when YOU'RE WINNING

slate laurel
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i've never stalemated a won game

wheat hull
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obviously stalemate

dim ember
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Stalemating a game you’re winning is ROUGH.

sharp lagoon
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Rral

proven goblet
sharp lagoon
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Real

cloud cape
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stalemate is 😭

wheat hull
plain glade
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nah it depends on the level

little lark
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The most painful way to end a chess game is when your opponent has like less than 20 seconds and is in a time scramble but procedes to play perfectly anyway and checkmates you just before their clock runs out

brazen sparrow
paper wave
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Stalemate or loss on time

zenith dirge
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I would say losing a winning position on time, to be specific

plain glade
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if ur like 500 stalemating is not that bad

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but

little lark
formal dock
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OR, losing a game right before you're about to hit 1000, 1100, 1200, etc.

obsidian igloo
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Opponent offering you to take en passant and then getting mated/blundering your queen after doing the forced move on autopilot

slate laurel
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nah its def blundering. you can only blame yourself

plain glade
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yea

brazen sparrow
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chess wind what do you think

plain glade
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blundering

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for sure

charred marten
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blundering m1 and losing money

slate laurel
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blundering

little lark
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Stalemating a won game is just funny

forest bluff
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completely winning a game and then having to leave for reasons

sturdy bay
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Nah pulling up the queen death squad is the best way to win

little lark
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Losing on time just feels deserved

plain glade
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yea

little lark
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Blundering is painful

quiet rose
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got to be honest, the loss on time is stressful, but if youve just made a queen and your thinking "finally, some elo points for all this hard work", and it just stalemates, gotta be the most painful way to lose

little lark
oak gate
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Blundering and losing in a completely winning position hurts the most in my opinion

plain glade
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it is definetly blundering

little lark
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Like if I stalemated at this level id probably just laugh

formal dock
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losing a game right before you're about to hit a 'milestone' like 1200, 1500, etc. is the worst

plain glade
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nah losing a game right afte ru hit it

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is worse

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cuz

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u got 1200

little lark
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I go in expecting to lose before a milestone

plain glade
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but then

eager python
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figuring out i moved my king into a terrible position, possibly making a mate in 1 or 2

little lark
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It feels kind of natural

plain glade
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now ur backt o 1190 or somehting

rocky crater
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Getting a rook and king checkmate, but got low on time and mouse slipped your rook and ended up with a stalemate.

little lark
coral stratus
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Checkmate by pawns lmfao

little lark
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Bros getting checkmated instead of resigning

plain glade
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nah lwk all of them are your fault so they shouldn't be painful

formal dock
little lark
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Wait how is mouseslip not an option on this poll

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I feel like that would be the most picked one, or at least rival stalemate

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I guess that falls under the category of blunder

plain glade
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or disconnecting when winning

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like

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u got mate in one

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but

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internet shuts off

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or smth

little lark
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Actually that's worse than mouseslip

zenith dirge
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I still think losing on time in a winning position is the worst

little lark
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Because mouseslip is actually your fault

plain glade
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how

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yea

little lark
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Just a different fault than usual

plain glade
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i meant how to losing on time

coral stratus
plain glade
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it should be something thats not the players fault

little lark
coral stratus
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When both teams’ most useful pieces are dead and then you made a mouse slip (skill issue dude) then pawns checkmated you (when it was meant to be a stalemate)

little lark
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Yep happens all the time that exact situation to me

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Why did I structure the sentence like that

plain glade
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disconnecting is definitely the worst

little lark
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I agree actually

coral stratus
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Disconnecting when winning = i feel sky falling down

upper epoch
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Self sabotage

plain glade
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lmao

plain glade
coral stratus
acoustic snow
coral stratus
# acoustic snow Real
  1. Imagine when you’re only one step away from winning and then you disconnected 💀 2. Why your icon is deepseek lmfao
acoustic snow
honest plover
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Blundering pieces because that’s the only realistic thing to happen otb

crude pike
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Accidentally giving away your pieces... 😔

low thunder
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Losing against a younger sibling

zenith swan
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blundering really bad multiple times after playing a good game

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and then hanging backrank

dawn bobcat
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by making an excuse to leave just bc you know youre done for

trail island
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Losing on time in a M1 position or Getting flagged.

hard folio
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What about misclicks!!

autumn dagger
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But the times I’ve stalemated with a winning position and winning pieces is unhealthy 🥲😓😭

tribal cave
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stalemating is 100% hands down painful, one time i was in winning position and i had 2 before mate before the game got stalemate

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most saddest day of my life

fervent ember
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Æ

tardy fiber
stoic iron
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Statement is the worst

iron jacinth
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so basically, you are losing on time but you are actually winning. which is hella annoying since you know that you can mate in 2 but you have 5 seconds left 💀

whole crown
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The worst thing is losing because of bad WIFI

gray marsh
dreamy talon
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Blundering pieces/mate in winning position. Happened to me a few times before.

hardy pier
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the most painful way to end a chess game is when you have more than 20 secs on bullet and the opponent has less than 3 secs left but checkmates you at the last moment

vocal prism
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when your mom calls you for dinner then you have to stop bullying people on chess.com

late pelican
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brilliant move followed by queen blunder + missed mate + missed a free rook + blunder your last remaining, loyal lil horsey

tame kite
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Blundering is a part of a game everyone blunders and is extremely hard to avoid but not stalemate because most of them are because of low time where u have no choice but to move ur pieces quickly

fresh mortar
plucky hazel
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Lost internet connection has to be among the choices why isnt it there

plucky hazel
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i had M5 but i lost due to internet

pulsar lotus
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flagging one move before mate

solid onyx
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Blundering in your own opening repertoire

celest hollow
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Missclick in a completly winning position and end up loosing the game

fathom thorn
haughty gate
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Missing your clic and causing a blunder instead of a great move OR having a game where you are completely dominated by your opponent

royal tusk
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Missclick

steady dawn
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idk I don't win haha, I'm like 100 elo

fallen lotus
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Your opponent runs out of time, but its draw by insufficent material </3

errant light
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Blunder a piece in a won position

restive bramble
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Personally, when you lose a drew game or blunder due to time pressure (In a longer game without being blitz or bullet)

leaden prairie
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So many times I was losing and considered resigning but I then noticed how many people would accidentally stalemate me which gave me motive to not resign.

fathom stag
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a specifically frustrating situation with blundering is when it's right after your opponent that goes for a tactic or sacrifice that doesn't work and you've correctly accepted it, but then you hang another tactic and lose a piece or smt

queen meadow
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Loosing to a mouse slip...ouchie

white flint
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My experience blounderign so i was on a match on a tornament so i was playing agressive and good but one i blouder so bad that i lost on a checkmate and I felt so mad because he called me Broski after the match

flat heart
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Cheating on OTB (the guy touch a piece so he need to play it/take it...and this makes me winning but he say that he didn't touched the piece or said ajust while he did touch the piece and DIDN'T said ajust)

tepid raptor
pliant pelican
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who stalemates a win game??!! A 100 elo chess player??

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Losing on time on a winning match is more painful

lyric quest
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stalemating a won game is amateur mistake, why people vote for that so much

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blitz/bullet player would understand why losing on time is such a pain

lyric quest
plain prism
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however its SATISFYING when THEY stalemate

acoustic granite
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When they checkmate you without you seeing the mate

lyric quest
acoustic granite
lyric quest
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yea good i saw that comin

acoustic granite
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hey D:

junior coral
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Getting closed by mistake

storm pebble
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MOUSE SLIP!

acoustic snow
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Mouse slip IRL be like

late pelican
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gray marsh
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closing the browser as a mistake