I hate non-resigners.

If your opponent reads this, he's going to be absolutely thrilled to have induced this reaction. 

Seems like you learned your lesson. Now go play checkers.

There is nothing wrong with not resigning in and of itself. I personally often times will put off resigning when down some heavy material in hopes of making a fortress or I simply go berserk and throw everything I have left directly at my opponents king and hope something sticks.

Thing is when I do that I don't sit there for 5 minutes on each move. I actually you know move my pieces in an orderly fashion.

I feel your pain if everyone simply resigned to me I would be the champion of the world.

If you are winning and he doesn't resign, just prove that you are winning by winning!

The guy who wrote this is not even rated over 1500 and he/she has the guts to write these things. A person does not resign for he/she knows that his/her opponent may not be able to strike the winning blow. That means the dude who wrote this might not know basic checkmates causing to his/her defeat. Remember dude GOOD POSITIONS DON'T WIN GAMES. GOOD MOVES DO.

p.s. the positon you said that was 100% losing was actually around 75% cause if it was 100% you would not have written this article. =))

So ultimately, not resigning was a winning strategy!

The title of this forum should be changed to "Accepting Defeat in a Winning Position". =))

That is fåking hilarious!!! =) I literally laughed out loud when I read that! Thank you for brightening my otherwise hangover-struck sunday. 

I'm currently playing a fellow more highly rated than me by a considerable margin.  I managed to get a superiority in material early.  Should he resign?  I don't believe it was because I outplayed him -- he screwed up.  Despite this, he is still playing and still a threat -- if I screw up, I'm not sure I can beat him.

You might say something like "that's different -- he's better than you."  But you should also know one thing -- I know at least one person ranked higher than me who has an "alias" -- another account, membership, whatever -- that he adopts at times.  I don't know how common this is, but some of these relatively low-ranked people that you play might be better than you think.  This is all quite apart from the new player who might be a hotshot, but is low-ranked simply due to lack of experience.

I hope that you can rise above your frustraton and learn this lesson -- People who play chess most often play to win.  The game IS NOT OVER until 'checkmate' or 'resign' is spoken.  If you quit thinking before your opponent is done in, you will probably lose.  Believe me, I know -- if you can't keep your head clear during a game, it will be very difficult to get better.