i wanted to encourage people to stop quitting a game when they lose their queen or find themselves with a small disadvantage. there is a lot to learn when playing with a disadvantage and one can still win without they're queen!! dont give up !! fight til the end !! force a draw!! 

No!

e-gawd!

but if it's bullet your playing it can be worth staying :)

As long as you know you're losing - RESIGN!

If you care about your bloody rating that much then fine... bring 'em to their knees, but it's only going to do your chess an ill-fitting favour.

If you can spot a mate in 5, and reckon that your opponent wont... Resign anyway.

If he asks you why you did that... Tell him! It oughtn't be that difficult. You'll be coaching another opponent for sure... But at the same time you're elevating the standard of... well.. standard of chess-players. Let's face it. You're never going to be in the world top-50 anyway. Not even in top 100. I'll bet my balls. And if I lose, I'll stick 'em up your nostrils.

Anyhow...  The worst that can happen is that you'll end up looking like mr. phking Fischer, and your opponents are going to have to figure it out for themselves. After a while you can start to collect the fees.

What!? There's another one!? Where? (add several 1's and exclamation-marks here in mixed order)

I never resign because the sky is blue.

You quit for the sake of "wasting" time on other things

Oh, if it were so easy...

But I hope you have the deceny to resign for other reasons.

I resigned from my previous job. Does that count?

I only resign when I is drunk as a skunk, yo & that's a every a day, yo!

I have long ago resigned myself to the fact that these threads are never going to stop.

"If I am correct, this topic - and ones like it - are a measure of the health of chess.com - its blood pressure, if you like. The existence of this topic - and its predecessors and successors - indicates that there is both a sufficient supply of 'newbies' to whom this topic is fresh - and an adequate residue of 'oldies' - to whom this topic is stale. I predict catastrophic consequences for chess.com if this topic were ever to die out completely."    - Fizz's Feory

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/those-who-refuse-to-resign-when-they-are-completely-lost

"Number 6, number 6, WHY DID YOU RESIGN!?"

Unlike No. 6, I was explicit in my departure letter ...

As you hard-working professionals have little time for sentiment, I’ll keep my farewell brief.

1. Why are you leaving?

There's a lot of things about the firm a lot of people like a lot.  But there are a few things...  oh, little things, that a lot of people dislike rather a lot. 

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/Scripts2.html#Questionnaire

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

2. You must have worked with some pretty cool dudes?

I just want to say: over the years, I have come to regard you as ... people I met. http://www.freewebs.com/reddwarfquotes/main.htm

3. Surely some of the work has been fun?

"Please, Spock, do me a favor ... 'n' don't say it's `fascinating'..." -- Dr. McCoy

"No... but it is... interesting..." -- Spock (The Ultimate Computer)

http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/quotes/S_TheOriginalSeries/

4. So what's the plan?

We do...nothing.

Yup. That's another world-beater.

Edmund and Baldrick : Nob and Nobility   http://mahonri.anu.edu.au/humour/bladderquote.html

5.What if leaving turns out to be the biggest mistake ‘since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside.'http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/four_major.shtml

Kryten: "There's no such thing as a brown alert sir."

Cat: "You won't be saying that in a minute!" http://www.freewebs.com/reddwarfquotes/main.htm

6. How will you cope with no money, no work and no friends?

Under my bed I have shoe box full of telephone rings.  Whenever I get lonely I open it up just a bit and I get a call.  One time I dropped the box all over the floor and the phone wouldn't stop ringing, so I had it disconnected.  I bought a new phone though. I didn't have much money so I had to buy an irregular phone -- it had no number 5 on it.  I saw a close friend of mine the other day...  He said, "Steven, why haven't you called me?"  I said, "I can't call everyone I want.  My new phone has no five on it."  He said, "How long have you had it?"  I said, "I don't know...  My calendar has no sevens on it."

ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway?

FORD: They're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant parts.

ARTHUR: So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang but with a Wimpy

http://www.some-guy.com/quotes/adams.html

7. What would you like to be remembered for?

My empathy. Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.

http://users.kiss.si/~k4ff0651/humor.htm

8. Any advice for those left behind?

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

http://www.some-guy.com/quotes/adams.html

"Discretion is the better part of valor, and cowardice is the better part of discretion. So, sometimes the most valiant thing to do is be a coward."

Hahaaa

Since we're quoting great TV shows;

Malcolm Tucker: It IS possible to have a good resignation, you know!
Hugh Abbott: "A good resignation"? Oh, I'm looking forward to how you're gonna sell THIS to me!
Malcolm Tucker: Look, people really like it when you go just a bit early! You know, steely jawed, faraway look in your eyes! Before they get to the point when they sitting round in pubs and say "Oh, that f-er's got to go!", you surprise them! "Blimey, he's gone! I didn't expect that! Resigned! You don't see THAT much anymore! Old school! Respect! I rather liked the guy! He was hounded out by the f-ing press!" How about that, ah? What a way to go! Yeah!

I liked the Blackadder and Hitchhiker's Guide references.

What I find most depressing about new "never resign" threads is the fact that it proves that nobody even reads the discussions in the other "never resign" threads. It doesn't matter how hard we try or how compelling our arguments are, in the end we will gain absolutely nothing.

I never resign - instead I take the maximum per move and use up all my vacation time and try to guess my opponent's password so that I can login as them and resign my game.