People who DO NOT RESIGN in a lost position.

If your opponent don't resign early when you have 2R+K vs K, this is the best time for award hunting

you shouldn't resign

your opponent can always blunder

This is an early game of mine, and why I usually, not always, err on the side of not resigning. Black is me, no idea why board is flipped.

I find it slightly odd that people are so worried about their time being wasted. Why play a board game if you're so very Type A? Most of us are not Magnus Carlsen and will not be making a career of chess...

Or 2Q + K vs K

I'm cool with these people. Let them resign whenever they want to.

you should never resign in blitz chess/ when playing rapid or longer games its different,

but in blitz always make the person checkmate you. If they complain politely advise

them (without abuse) that its not your responsibility to manage your opponents time

for them

later dudes

goommba88

We want you to time out or something like that.

I'm curious, where do you draw the line as to when someone should resign? Why not look at the situation as a chance to improve tactics? If you have such an overwhelming advantage it shouldn't take long to checkmate your opponent.

When I'm down to a position where my loss looks inevitable I resign. To me if I continue its dishonorable. If your opponents rating is way low, and they don't have to skill level to finish you off that's one thing. But if their rating is high enough to reliably do the job? Then it just looks like you are saying that you don't think they are good enough. Or that its just cry baby stuff. Wah! I'm losing but I'll draw this out senselessly to irritate you.

I don't understand why, if someone is winning, they would be irritated. Maybe if someone is irritated at having a winning position it might be because it's unfamiliar to them. They may not know what to do next. This would be a good time to not resign.

Besides, the very objective of chess is checkmate. The rules of the game, or any online description define the objective of chess as being checkmate. It's usually within the first couple sentences.

In my experience the best time to resign is after the checkmate, rarely before it.

When I play OTB I very rarely see anyone continuing to play when its hopeless. I see the times that there are real chances for stalemate. That's different. But looking someone in the eyeballs and continuing to play? No, it rarely happens. Go to a tournament and see. Its considered childish and rude. Not to mention that others are waiting for the next round to begin. I've seen a tournament director adjudicate a game for that very reason. There are exceptions. Such as knight, bishop, and king vs king. Its difficult but not impossible to checkmate then. But I think that its one of the reasons for the 50 move rule.

If it is within the rules it is fine. People trying to impose their own ideas of sportsmanship on others are the worst kind of individuals. If a game is so hopeless that someone 'should resign' then conversely it is so easy for the other player to win they should just get on with doing it. Resigning is just an optional shortcut to end a game, not something compulsory.

I've pulled off wins from terrible positions before. It slightly creeps me out that someone would be mad at me for doing that otb.

They have the right to look like morons. Mic drop.

People should play the game out until the end. If they think they'll lose, they can resign. But I plan on then finishing anyway. I usually do.

Toying with an opponent who won't resign can be fun. I like to try to stretch the game out as long as possible by running rooks back and forth, pushing a pawn every 40 moves, etc. I've gotten well over 200 moves, haven't made it to 300 yet. If you run your time up to twenty or thirty minutes you can set up a mate-in-one position and then mix yourself a rum and Coke and take the dog for a walk. Of course there's a theoretical possibility that you could blunder it away, but probably no more so than in "regular" chess.

I don't think anything about them, and I certainly don't do anything about them. I play on and eventually checkmate them. I don't understand why anyone would be frustrated by that. To me it's frustrating when someone resigns one move before checkmate.

Resigning is unique to chess anyway and a strange concept to me. Imagine a resignation in football, basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, soccer or any other sport or game. How weird would that be?

I rarely ever resign because I want to see if I can get a stalemate