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by femto113 1735 days ago
> Except for under-promotions ... since the program is unlikely to ever find itself in a situation where it would be useful to play one.

Not my proudest moment but I did cheese out a tie in an otherwise lost game in jr. high by moving into what would be a stalemate if opp naively queened his pawn. It was extra ugly because he moved, picked up his previously captured queen from the side of the board, put it down, but didn't take his hand off of the queen before realizing the mistake (literally any other piece would have given him a clear win). Had to get a ruling on whether he was committed, judge decided it was too late because he'd taken his hand off the pawn (I have no idea what the official rule is in this scenario). I still regret not just resigning, but 12 year old me could be a jerk sometimes.
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cmeacham98 1734 days ago
The judge is right for the wrong reason:

https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/32495/is-there-a-t...

The promotion is committed as soon as the new piece touches the promotion square.

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Aditya_Garg 1734 days ago
Don’t feel too bad. Learning how to watch for stalemate tricks when you’re winning is a very important chess lesson. Look up Eric Rosen stalemate traps on YouTube. This is an IM who regularly tricks GMs into stalemate. The GMs are not mad at him, only themselves for falling for it.
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Bootvis 1734 days ago
Swindling is part of the game at all levels. Personally, I feel good about it even at 35 as long as I followed the rules.

I remember a kid changing the colour of his bishop by 'misplacing' it on a different colour square to get the same colour in a bishop-pawn endgame. That was not OK.

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