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Iâm sorry to rant but Iâm gonna say it. Perpetually checking your opponent is the absolute most vulgar and unsportsmanlike thing you could ever do in this game. You are basically declaring at that point âI cannot think of a way to win so Iâm gonna annoy you into either blundering or until I fell like it. Sure you CAN do it but IMHO itâs for sore losers and people who canât win through strategy TLDR: perpetual check = u suck at chess
Try to learn what youâre even talking about first before opening your mouth.
Perpetual check is a sequence of checking moves that can neither be escaped from nor won by the one checking. Itâs a draw by repetition (as with any other type of repetition, not just through checking moves).
Being on the receiving end of perpetual check and a forced draw means YOUâve failed to convert your winning advantage by not covering your back and allowing it to happen. Itâs not an annoyance but a completely valid strategy. Converting a losing position into a draw is not âunsportsmanlikeâ, but rather one could argue itâs a very core principle of chess.
âMany checksâ however is not synonymous with perpetual check, at all.
It sounds like youâre low elo, which is not necessarily an accurate representation of your skill, however it is an accurate representation of the type of blunders one may generally expect an opponent in that rating bracket to make.
Hence, ânot accepting that youâve lostâ does not really apply at certain levels because the opponent may surprise you with any type of blunder. If you find yourself in a losing position against a 300 rated player and have any clue what youâre doing, it would be simply dumb to not see it out. If you had a higher ranking this wouldnât happen. But youâre losing your cool and going on a crusade about it.
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At this point youâre just yapping about opponents who refuse to just let you win when you havenât been good enough to win, calling them all sorts of names that probably apply to yourself if you look in the mirror.