Opponents who spend minutes thinking about making a forced move.
Chess pet peeves
Vinyl boards that won't lie flat. Especially coupled with pure black and white pieces on a board that has pure black and white squares. Even worse when the pieces are so enormous they barely fit inside the squares. Also stupid analog clocks that tick so loudly you can hear them all the way across the room.
This set is a nightmare:
I got the middle finger from some tourist on the road yesterday....altho' I did turn into him as he was crossing the street (he was walking so fast !). Some car rental co's. have removed their horns....cuz' it angers the islanders.
Really dirty chess pieces, with broken pieces, and pieces from mismatched sets. A complete new decent chess set is pretty cheap, people!
Whats some of your chess pet peeves? :) Mine is people who open games 1. b3, 1. Na3, you know really dumb lines that are just obnoxious