Possible unsporting situations I'm thinking about:
- When playing bullet games online (1 to 3 minutes per side), you move a single piece many times like
1. Nf3 ... 2. Ng1 ... 3. Nf3 ... 4. Ng1
etc. (to gain some time against your opponent) - When you wait to lose by time instead of resigning (to avoid your opponent to play another game and to force him to keep thinking for nothing)
- When you wait the last minute you have on clock to force mate and win (to apply a psychological pressure to your opponent)
- When playing bullet games online, you promote all your pawns to queens to force mate with a big advantage (to apply a psychological pressure to your opponent)
- When playing games online, you try to distract your opponent by being chatty for example (to force him to make a bad move)
- When you ask for draw many times during a game whereas you are most probably going to lose (to distract your opponent and thus try to force him to make a bad move)
All these situations are legal in chess but can be considered as unsporting approaches.