RANT ALERT!! --(rant to follow)--
That you should expect your opponent to let you win in long games when you lost due to taking too long but you don't expect your opponent to let you win in short games under the same circumstances is something that's been said repeatedly in this thread and it's still as illogical as when the first time it was said.
It makes no difference what the time controls are. It's up to you to choose the time controls that allow you enough time to win by position if that's what you want to do. Not come close to winning by position but then losing by time. It's not your opponent's fault if you made bad choices in the 'create a game' dialogue box, so isn't it about time you take accountability for those choices?
In fact if you get beaten by time in classical you have even less reason to be ticked then if you got beaten in blitz because you had a greater abundance of time at your disposal which you blew. One shouldn't interpret the fact that time is less of a factor in classical to mean you can waste it and then get mad if your opponent doesn't let you win, after you unfairly used more time then him to gain a positional advantage. That's almost like cheating.
No matter what the time controls if you exceed your allotted time you deserve to lose. If one minute is too short for you and you play one minute games, and lose by time- that's on you. If 10 minute or one hour games are too short for you and you play them and you loose by time, guess what... it's your fault there too. Don't play time controls that are too short for you. It's that simple. It's actually just common sense.
When you play a game of X minutes long, that is an agreement between both players to make all your moves in X minutes. The only way your opponent would be able to use drastic sacrifices , lots of checks etc to beat you is If you failed to honor that agreement. If you played within the time you agreed to play in such tactics simply WOULDN"T WORK. Think about that for a minute. Honor the time controls that YOU agreed to, and it will never ever happen!! So when it does, please realize that you did it to yourself. Your opponent probably could have used the extra time you squandered throughout the game to think longer, but he or she understood the importance of honoring that agreement, of respecting you and not making you wait for him while he took too long to think. What kind of sense of entitlement does a person have that would possibly lead them to think that they can do this, and then to top it all off expect their opponent, who put in the effort to be disciplined in managing his time well, to resign. This sort of thing is typical of the lack of accountability I see in the world today. People making bad choices and then blaming others for the natural consequences that come out of it. It reminds me of that relative, the one we all have, who blows his money on drinking and partying and then comes to you hat in hand to bail him out. While I say NO! You must learn to be responsible for managing your life/resources and not expect others to do it for you.
If there is anyone left who can't understand this yet, let me try to explain by parable:
"The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold."
The player that is not disciplined in time management is the grasshopper. The grasshopper deserves to die, it's right and good that he does. How absurd would it be if he told the squirrel to get out so he could come in and the squirrel can die? Yet it's ok to do the very same thing in chess?
Again , if you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen, to further mix my metaphors :P. I'll never ever ever understand why people choose to play time controls that are to short for them in the first place. And the, blame complain and name call others for their poor decisions and inferior play. And irony of all ironys- use the 'unsporstmanlike' insult when it's their own behavior epitomizes the word.
That you should expect your opponent to let you win in long games when you lost due to taking too long but you don't expect your opponent to let you win in short games under the same circumstances is something that's been said repeatedly in this thread and it's still as illogical as when the first time it was said.
It makes no difference what the time controls are. It's up to you to choose the time controls that allow you enough time to win by position if that's what you want to do. Not come close to winning by position but then losing by time. It's not your opponent's fault if you made bad choices in the 'create a game' dialogue box, so isn't it about time you take accountability for those choices?
In fact if you get beaten by time in classical you have even less reason to be ticked then if you got beaten in blitz because you had a greater abundance of time at your disposal which you blew. One shouldn't interpret the fact that time is less of a factor in classical to mean you can waste it and then get mad if your opponent doesn't let you win, after you unfairly used more time then him to gain a positional advantage. That's almost like cheating.
No matter what the time controls if you exceed your allotted time you deserve to lose. If one minute is too short for you and you play one minute games, and lose by time- that's on you. If 10 minute or one hour games are too short for you and you play them and you loose by time, guess what... it's your fault there too. Don't play time controls that are too short for you. It's that simple. It's actually just common sense.
When you play a game of X minutes long, that is an agreement between both players to make all your moves in X minutes. The only way your opponent would be able to use drastic sacrifices , lots of checks etc to beat you is If you failed to honor that agreement. If you played within the time you agreed to play in such tactics simply WOULDN"T WORK. Think about that for a minute. Honor the time controls that YOU agreed to, and it will never ever happen!! So when it does, please realize that you did it to yourself. Your opponent probably could have used the extra time you squandered throughout the game to think longer, but he or she understood the importance of honoring that agreement, of respecting you and not making you wait for him while he took too long to think. What kind of sense of entitlement does a person have that would possibly lead them to think that they can do this, and then to top it all off expect their opponent, who put in the effort to be disciplined in managing his time well, to resign. This sort of thing is typical of the lack of accountability I see in the world today. People making bad choices and then blaming others for the natural consequences that come out of it. It reminds me of that relative, the one we all have, who blows his money on drinking and partying and then comes to you hat in hand to bail him out. While I say NO! You must learn to be responsible for managing your life/resources and not expect others to do it for you.
If there is anyone left who can't understand this yet, let me try to explain by parable:
"The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold."
The player that is not disciplined in time management is the grasshopper. The grasshopper deserves to die, it's right and good that he does. How absurd would it be if he told the squirrel to get out so he could come in and the squirrel can die? Yet it's ok to do the very same thing in chess?
Again , if you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen, to further mix my metaphors :P. I'll never ever ever understand why people choose to play time controls that are to short for them in the first place. And the, blame complain and name call others for their poor decisions and inferior play. And irony of all ironys- use the 'unsporstmanlike' insult when it's their own behavior epitomizes the word.