Stupid idiots who don't know when to resign?

sometimes it is frustrating when a good tactic is developed

with material advantage, but not yet won, and then

your opponent resign. And all of your wonderful plans

was not to be developed ...

#

- irritating ..

& (but)

thank you anyway, for a nice game,

- fun and learning .

Actually, that's not true.  My observation (of many rated tournaments) is that higher rated players resign more often and earlier than beginners/lower rated players.  GMs often resign in positions where the rest of mere mortals view as playable or possibly equal, but the GMs recognize that there is a line that will result inevitably in a loss.  Indeed, some GMs consider it embarrassing to be checkmated as this implies that he or she did not realize that the next move would be checkmate.  In contrast, many/most of the players I play do not resign even in the face of a clear mate in 1.

For the record, I have missed mate in 1 on many occasions.  So I generally don't hold it against my opponents for failing to resign.  :-)

I have missed mate in one on a few occasions. If I see that I've made a blunder, sometimes I'll resign just after the move was made and it's the opponents move.

Indeed, playing against a computer from the final position (after resignation) of many GM games can be excellent training.

Here's one that I played last week from Korchnoi -- Gurgenidze, 1967. I also showed it to my students, and let them play it against me.

White to move

Some times I don't resign because I believe my opponents finishing techinque is so weak.

Fun one.

Recently looked at positions like this, so I'm happy to have solved this correctly (not without chasing some false leads).

This one I think is very pretty.

Game fragment, stopped at puzzle position.
Full game:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1284081 

I only resign when there is no further hope..depends also on opponent..if

he is steady ,passive almost no blunders then resign..otherwise if he is

fast,blunderful like me i wait,but never makes him wait ,moves very fast

taking only less than mnt or 2 for a move ...here is a game id -contrary

to the line taken by many that in resign position the player should resign..the conditions i said apply here..

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1356291818

right bro

I usually resign about 6 moves after mate cos I wanna make absolutely sure they've beaten me.

Lasker 1900 i completely agree I do resign when I think it is right I dont resign when my opponent can not end and stalemate is a real option and NEVER when a opponent has been abusive and constantly dissconnecting

I have not resigned in a thousand games nor will I ever.  Surprising draws happen; just yesterday two stalemate saves.  When you play until # you strengthen your play because you:  A) don't have an "abort" button; B) you learn humility which makes you less subjective; C) you learning mating patterns you've never seen; and D) by acknowledging each opponent as unique opportunity to exchange ideas.  Playing to # helps you learn chess; playing until # is in fact chess.

I will usually resign when there is a clear mate, but depending on the player I wait sometimes till they see it.

The best option is to look at every legal move before resigning.

ChiefRedLeaf have you nothing better to do with your life than play out clearly lost games? The very occasional stalemate does not strike me as justification for the inordinate amount of life that people waste on some of these games. What is there to learn from playing a Q + K v K game and all the other stupidly easy games that I/other people are constantly forced to play out. It is far better to quit a lost game and play another more interesting game where you may actually learn something of consequence.

http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1362751298

This game typifies my point, it was played while I was typing my point, yes WHILE.  Down a piece in a lost position, I didn't resign, I found counterplay;  counterplay is a frame of mind.   Yes, play out all Q/K v. Q you will still learn how another person thinks; yesterday playing bullet, a mouseslip missed # saved a draw others would have resigned, and in another game a guy disconnected and lost while up a rook.  The point though is this, when you adopt this never resign attitude you will see these sorts of things compound like wildfire in your games simply because your responses to hanging pieces will be so much more blase.  Frightens the opponent when you don't resign, right Squidword??

Everyone's an idiot except for me

IMHO its rude to hang around in a position you know is clearly lost; but knowing that depends on ones abilty and level.

I remember the first time I beat my Uncle Jims chess computer in the 80s he had never beaten it and after nearly an hour I got to a clearly won endgame; but Jim could not see it, and very much wanted me to play it out. It Took nearly another, very dull, halfHour to play it down to the very last move; but it did make him very happy to see the Beast fall. : )