Is flagging a legitamite strategy?

Ok it sounds like it you can get to at least an intermediate level by playing very quickly. I tried it today somewhat by playing very fast at the beginning and it paid off.

@pretzelattack1 said in #20:
> and yet a tiny percentage of chess games end in checkmate. odd.
If someone can see checkmate is unavoidable and they resign because of that then it's a false distinction.

@Buttercup22 said in #19:
> As long as it doesn't say in the rulebook that the object of the 100m dash is to checkmate your opponent, then I'd say yes, it's legitimate.

In the rules of any time controlled chess it says the the goal of the game is to checkmate your opponent's King _within_the_allotted_time_.

@ohcomeon_1 said in #23:
> In the rules of any time controlled chess, it says the the goal of the game is to checkmate your opponent's King _within_the_allotted_time.

Thank you for proving my case because that's not what all these yahoos are doing. They are not trying to checkmate the opponent's King within the allotted time, they are trying to FLAG.
You don't have to read further than the title of this post.
>"Is flagging a legitamite strategy?"
The title says it all. I feel dirty for even posting in such a thread.

@Buttercup22 said in #6:
> No, it is not legitimate. When playing 1 minute games if your opponent is about to run out of time you should always see who is ahead and if you are not ahead you should do the sportsmanlike thing and resign. Or at least offer a draw. Bring some class to the game of chess.
i hope ur joking lmfao

people flagged in classical chess without an increment pretty often, and in winning positions. nobody ever claimed this was a violation of the rules.

@Buttercup22 said in #24:
> Thank you for proving my case because that's not what all these yahoos are doing. They are not trying to checkmate the opponent's King within the allotted time, they are trying to FLAG.

I don't think you got what the message of my post was. If you failed to checkmate your opponent's king within _the_allotted_time_ and ran out of time, you lost fair and square. Your opponent won by flagging you _according_to_the_rules_of_chess_played_with_a_time control. Period.

Don't like it? Play longer time controls.

@pretzelattack1 said in #26:
> people flagged in classical chess without an increment pretty often, and in winning positions. nobody ever claimed this was a violation of the rules.

Apples and oranges. In classical chess you have much more opportunity to win by checkmate. If you played bad moves quickly in an effort to flag your opponent he will have plenty of time to see how to punish those mistakes and crush you. Their slime tactics will never work in real chess. That's why these cowards hide in thousands of one minute games.

lol of course people would still win with slimy tactics, at all time controls. every human chessplayer ever has won a game they shouldn't have, including you. now go learn how to spell.

I've also noticed when time is low, people just make random moves, especially checks where you can just take with king, in order to flag. I guess bullet at my level is more of a mindless pleasure than anything else.