Alright! I’m not a native english speaker so I’ll try to do my best. So I play a lot with this friend, he’s actually my best friend but the thing is every time we play we always have an argument. I don’t really like when people would brag when they win against me, so this is something I never do. But this is something that he would do a lot, which is part of why we have a lot of arguments after our games. And if he loses he says that it’s because of his mistakes. Something that he says a lot: when he wins it’s because of his strategy, and when he loses it’s because of his mistakes. Although we have kind of the same level. I mean if he said that friendly just to tease me or anything, I’d be friendly too, but he’s not at all! This was just the background to give you on overall picture.

Lately we played a lot and every time he’s starting to lose, he resigns. For example when I manage to take his queen and still keep mine he’d resign. Sometimes he would wait a little longer, until I have a queen and a rook ahead him. I told him after several times that he still had a chance to win. I mean if you resign as soon as your opponent take the advantage than you will never learn how to play when you are in this position.

You can even manage a stalemate (although I know it doesn’t happen after a certain level but I succeeded once or twice against him in leading to a stalemate).

But anyway! And one day, maybe two weeks ago, he was winning a game, and when he knew he was winning, he was already starting to brag, so since he was always resigning, plus finding something to be unfriendly about after a game or excuses about why he lost, I decided to let run the 12 minutes that were left (he wanted to leave because he was tired or I don’t remember but I knew it would piss him off), and then I played when there were only 5 seconds left and he did his move and won.

But after that he was incredibly annoying about that. Now, every time I win against him he’s always bringing that up and telling me how it was unsportsmanlike to do that. But I told him that if I accept him always resigning the game so early, then I don’t understand why he’s not able to accepting me taking the time that I have to play (I did that only once in my entire life). I’m following the rules (plus I don’t tell him anything when we are playing, but he was like « man play, what the fuck are you waiting for » so he was the one that was unsportsmanlike).

CONCLUSION

To be honest, I know that all this is totally insignificant and petty as you said, I TOTALLY agree. I mean I don’t even know why I’m posting all of this here. I’m just fed up with him always bringing that up and wasting time over things that don’t even care… I guess I just need someone, that could tell him that what I did, was as legal as what he’s always doing. Sorry for wasting your time too, you asked for the whole story.