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I have an occasional game of chess, usually at 10 minutes per side. In
the game today, I had victory in checkmate over white with a +30
material against a guy who had 37 more points for his lichess score than me.
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phoenix wrote:

I have an occasional game of chess, usually at 10 minutes per side. In
the game today, I had victory in checkmate over white with a +30
material against a guy who had 37 more points for his lichess score than
me.

Congratulations.

But if you had any significant time on your clock he should have
resigned well before mate.

William Hyde
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On Thu, 7 May 2026 17:04:25 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:

Congratulations.

But if you had any significant time on your clock he should have
resigned well before mate.

William Hyde

For sure - I was once horribly lost in the situation where the other
guy was desperately short on time (and I'm pretty sure I'm a good
enough speed player to have survived that scramble though I seldom get
that close to flagging) so I decided to hang in there and 2 moves
before the control he made a hideous blunder that didn't win instantly
but left me with a protected passed pawn that I was able to convert.

And he was an experienced enough player to understand why I hadn't
resigned so it was nice that he wasn't at all mad with me though in
fairness it WAS the kind of position a strong A player should have
been able to make control without destroying his position even at 5 or
10 sec per move.

Throughout the last 20 moves my attitude was "I'm busted - I know I'm
busted but maybe he'll do something terrible during the time scramble
- I can always resign later..."
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