FunMasterMike, can you remind me
what's the most important thing 
about playing a chess game?
That's an easy one...it's winning!
Well...not exactly. 
What's another thing?
Uhh...it's gotta be the trophies!
I'm going to give you 
one more guess, Mike.
Hm...all the stars I earn on ChessKid?!
No. The most important thing 
about playing a chess game
is making sure you play it the right way:
that you play the game fairly, 
by the rules,
and in a way that both players have fun
and get something out of the experience.
In this game, I'm looking at you, Mike,
and you are 5 1/2 to my 2 1/2.
You've been killing me today!
You are owning this match.
I'm not really interested 
in playing you anymore,
so I'm just going to let my time run out;
once I get a whole minute gone, I know 
that the system will just abort the game
and I'll be able to go play somebody else.
That's cool with you, right?
Well, first of all, you're going to 
lose rating points if you do that,
but it's not cool at all, 
because it's my turn to play white!
And you can't just abort 
because you don't like my rating,
or the color you were given, 
or your score against me.
So you'd better make a move!
All right, fine, you convinced me. 
You're right--it's a great point.
I'm not allowed to quit a game once it's 
started, whether I like who I play or not.
All right, well, on that note,
now I've gotta make a few moves,
and see if I can try to make a 
comeback in this little battle of ours
where you are up three games!
But what happens if the game 
goes wrong again for me?
If I play a move like d5 here--
I've forgotten my opening theory...
I thought this was a good move, Mike,
but as soon as you take 
that pawn I suddenly realize
I really don't like my position here.
Yeah, there's more attackers than 
defenders, so I'm going to eat that one!
Well, it's okay now that I've even gotten 
this far, and I'm just going to lose again,
it's okay for me to just 
walk away altogether, right?
Maybe I should go get a snack right now,
or maybe I could even...
go do some puzzles, 
and just let this game sit...
You don't mind sitting here for another
13 minutes and 42 seconds, do you...?!
Well, I think, PoppaBear, 
that hurts you AND me, because
number one, 
you're not attempting to make a comeback.
You're not learning how 
to fight back from a worse position.
And number two, 
think of how that makes ME feel,
sitting here for 13 or 14 minutes 
with nothing to do,
when I could be playing 
multiple more chess games
or solving some puzzles or something?
You would hate it if I did that to you,
just sat there for 13 or 14 minutes!
That's what parents do 
when they're punishing their child:
"Go sit in the corner!"
We don't want to make kids sit 
in the corner. We want them to play chess!
So, if you really feel 
like you have no chance at a comeback,
you should resign, 
not make the other person sit there.
But I think you could still 
stick with this one, PoppaBear.
All right, well, you convinced me again.
So, I'm not allowed to abort 
even if I don't like the matchup,
and I'm not allowed to abandon even 
if I don't like how the game is going.
Two good lessons learned.
I'll go ahead and take back 
this pawn here on c6
and wait for your next move.
Yeah, good life lessons, too! 
But, I think I saw a video on this:
sacrifices on f7, my favorite!
Oh, no! I just realized 
I missed another tactic!
Well, now that I know 
I can't abort the game,
and I know it's wrong to abandon,
I'm going to rely on my third trick
if things aren't going my way, Mike,
and I'm going to start 
offering you some draws.
I'm pretty sure you're cool with 
me offering you a draw
when I'm in a worse position?
Yeah, sometimes I thought
when an opponent offered me a draw,
it was a way out of losing!
But then it occurred to me, 
my chess coach said,
if somebody offers you a draw, 
it's because they think THEY'RE worse!
So if I take a look at the chess board 
here, I think I'm already up some pawns,
and I have this cool fork Nxe5, so 
by making a move, I'm declining your draw.
I should feel confident to win
my better position!
You're right. In fact, after you play 
Nxe5, that's a check, so suddenly
I realize the computer is not going to
let me go gobble that queen on d1,
I am in check, 
you have destroyed my right to castle,
and your queen is about to get active.
So you know what?
I'm going to give you another chance
to realize that I'm not happy,
and you need to make me happy by
giving me a draw right now!
Uhh....no. 
Not going to do it!
I'm not going to pressured into
accepting a draw that I don't want, so
I'm going to make you make your next move,
and when you do,
you can believe 
I am not going to accept that draw.
I'm just going to make a move,
take your bishop!
Now I'm already up a piece,
I'm up some pawns,
I'm about to have a safer king,
I'm not going to feel pressured
to accepting your second draw offer.
So, I've learned that I'm not allowed
to just pester you with draw offers,
but let's give it one more time.
If I offer you a third draw, 
have I crossed any lines yet?
Have I broken any rules by pestering you 
one more time to give me that half-point?
I feel like you have. 
In fact, PoppaBear,
if we were playing 
in an over-the-board tournament,
I would ask the tournament director 
to come over and actually ask you to stop,
because this is considered
against the rules: bad etiquette,
because you're breaking my concentration, 
and there's no chance
of me accepting a draw after 
the 1st and 2nd offers were declined.
So, it's a good lesson!
Use what you do on ChessKid 
to take to your tournaments.
If it's not allowed over the board,
we don't want it to 
happen on ChessKid either;
just try to fight back.
If you think you have no way,
go ahead and resign, 
but multiple draw offers
are not going to get you what you want.
It's like asking your parent over and over
and they say "no" every single time.
All right, well, good point.
I will stop pestering you with draws--
that's my third lesson.
But now that I can't offer you a draw,
I should probably try to get some help.
I think it makes sense 
if you're losing sometimes
to call somebody who's better
at chess than you,
so I'm going to call up my buddy here
Magnus Carlson and see if he can
give me some advice on this lost position.
Hey, come on! I'm supposed to be
playing PoppaBear, not the World Champion!
It's not proper on ChessKid for you
to use ANY sort of outside assistance.
That means computer programs,
your chess coach,
your genius 5-year-old little sister who
knows how to play chess better than you...
you've gotta fight your own battles.
In fact if you win 
with outside assistance,
it can't feel very good knowing
that you cheated the other player!
Chess is a game played 
by a very small group of people,
and if you get known as somebody 
who doesn't follow the rules,
that could stay with you 
for quite a while, so,
it's much better to win or lose
on your own and follow the rules.
It's a great point. 
So, now that I know that 
I can't call Magnus Carlson,
and I'm not allowed to look at 
what a chess computer engine might say
or even get my coach's advice,
I know that I am 100% on my own,
and that's actually the glory of it,
because regardless of what happens here,
I'm going to learn something, win or lose.
So, as I'm fighting back here I suddenly 
realize that on the point of losing,
that's going to take away 
even more rating points from me.
So that's pretty frustrating.
I think...
I think I have an idea though, Mike!
One way I could get them back 
after this matchup of ours is
I'm going to create a PoppaBear2 account,
and then, when no one else is around,
I'm going to log in on two computers,
play myself with the PoppaBear2 account,
and lose to the PoppaBear account
so I can gain all my rating points back!
It seems like the quickest way
to get my rating back where I want it.
Is that okay?
Well, that's a pretty interesting idea,
and a lot of times adults are happy
when you show some sort of creativity,
but this is actually in the rules
if you go to the bottom 
and read the FAQs on ChessKid,
kids are only allowed to have one account,
and by playing another 
account that you own
just to raise your rating 
by not playing real chess games
is very much against the rules.
And you know what, PoppaBear,
if you do that, all of those games
are saved in your history forever!
So ChessKid staff can pretty easily
find out if you've done it.
I would say follow the rules,
only play against real humans,
don't fix matches, and play 
your best chess in only the proper way.
All right. 
Well, that's a little frustrating,
but it actually feels good to know
that after what happens 
in this little match of ours,
I will get my rating points back
the right way,
only playing against other kids
and other adults like you,
and maybe if I win a few games
I'll get all my rating points right back.
So, on that note it looks like I might be
going down here pretty soon against you,
so before our game ends and the kids
see you take me down one more time,
what should a kid do if 
they're on ChessKid.com
and they see their opponent 
breaking the rules?
Maybe they even see a teammate
breaking the rules and they're worried
that they might be 
learning the wrong things...
What should they do if 
they see that their opponent
might not be playing fairly, Mike?
What would you tell them?
Well, definitely don't copy that same 
behavior; what I would tell them to do
is to have their coach or their parent
contact one of the 
staff members on ChessKid.com,
and they will be happy to investigate,
to make sure that all kids are following
the rules and the etiquette 
and the sportsmanship
that we've covered in this video today.
In fact, we would appreciate 
you letting us know
if you think somebody else is doing
one of these things improperly.
All right, well, there you have it, kids!
It's a call to action for you
to not only play the right way,
but to also help your teammates,
if they get confused and lose their way
along the way somewhere,
of what's the right way to play.
You know, I've learned that
a lot of the things you've said to me 
today here, Mike...on ChessKid,
maybe there's not an adult there 
standing by reminding you it's wrong,
but just about every single one 
of these pieces of behavior
from aborting the game,
abandoning a game,
pestering with draws, and then
using outside assistance--
all of them would be illegal
in a tournament,
and that's how kids 
need to act on ChessKid:
not to do anything that they 
wouldn't do as if there was
a whole bunch of other kids watching them,
or a tournament director 
observing their play,
even if they don't like
how things are going.
...Speaking on not liking how things
are going, I'm pretty sure
you have checkmate in one move,
and, uh...
I'm going to give you 
a virtual handshake, PoppaBear!
