I tried this before, i underpromoted all my pawns into knights and gave four knight checkmate... quite fun... but i think that made my opponent suffer a little bit... He should've resigned when i was totally winning, here is the final position

should i keep doing this? for more fun for people who are watching to see some checkmates they have never seen before?

if a guy doesn't resign when clearly beat, I like to demoralize him as much as possible for wasting my time. so go for it!

i definitely do that too, but ONLY when I feel like i had a clear win the entire time. I know after really really tough games, some ppl just play it out and I respect that. I'll just mate them short and sweet. But if it's somebody who makes me convert an up a queen game and takes forever, then yes, i'll will promote to bishops, sac my queen and taunt him for the rest of the game. give him hope, and then take it away

You're in good company! If you haven't seen it I won't spoil it, but check out the classic Zibbit vs. Variance video:

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Personally, I wouldn't do that. I just like to get the job done ASAP and move on to the next round. Then again... THAT FINAL POSITION IS AWESOME!!!

Do you really think the other person is "suffering"? If anything I think it makes you look just about as dumb for wasting your own time. By far the most amusing outcome of this would be if you messed up and let the other guy get stalemated. Seems about as reasonable a try for the opponent as you going for some obnoxious position with 5 knights and 3 bishops or whatever.

I think it's hilarious. I mean, I sometimes chuck away a queen to mate with two bishops - especially if I'm playing a friend who doesn't know how to mate with a certain combination...kind of half to say "you should have resigned", and half to educate/amuse.

I think, in the end, it's disrespectful of somebody not to resign in that position, but likewise, Variance nearly drew that legendary game, so maybe antagonising somebody into showing off and risking losing the win isn't such a bad idea after all!

it doesn't matter-- just a matter of personal taste.

personally i prefer to get the game over with and go relax somewhere away from a chess board. i guess it depends on whether you get a kick out of this sort of thing, or whether you took offense to begin with. i think it's all a bit silly, but "TO EACH HIS OWN".

Back in the mid 90s I was giving one of my then usual blindfold Christmas simul display nights, against family and friends. Anyway, my friend Tony was being a right pain by playing on in a lost position, likely figuring to tire me out or hoping that next glass might be one too many. I was a bit narked, so like an idiot I wanted to be clever and forced the position with me having three knights against his lone king. When the game was finished, ok I admit, also while this was happening, I was called every name under the sun, by all and sundry. I just could not do it! Had I lost the game normally, nobody would have cared, but to admit a draw..........it still gives me goosebumps thinking about it. Dumb, dumb, dumb.