Which begs the question, which is worse? A rage quitter who resigns when he loses a pawn, or a rage player who keeps promoting and delaying the game out of sheer anger?
This forum should be dead by now, but whatever.
We should first consider the perspective of the "rager's (who we will refer to as... Oen)" opponent (who we will refer to as Sven) in question. [...]
Magnus' full name is Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen...
So, let me recap: You're mad at them for wasting your time, so you waste your own time and theirs even harder? Logic?
Somebody does something I do not like to me, and so I respond by getting even. Doing so isn't a waste of my own time because it's fun to promote everything to horses and toy with them.
Yes, it is a waste of time. What do you achieve with this? You only satisfy your pettiness, but you don't actually have a fun game. If it were up to you, the game would have ended ages ago, when you think he should have resigned. You waste your own time playing a game that is already over that you generally don't even want to play any more under the false premise that you want to teach them a lesson.
But I say it again: it's just petty and you do it to feel superior in some way by humiliating other people. That's not a productive use of your time. While you were wasting time with stupid joke moves, you could have jsut ended the game, got your win, walked away and started a new game.
Which begs the question, which is worse? A rage quitter who resigns when he loses a pawn, or a rage player who keeps promoting and delaying the game out of sheer anger?
Really dumb stuff that I said lmao
Sven shoud give up if he is losing and have no fun
Again, the objectively best way to play is playing at all over not playing. If Sven wishes to play for the best result (objective 2), he must play on.
Which begs the question, which is worse? A rage quitter who resigns when he loses a pawn, or a rage player who keeps promoting and delaying the game out of sheer anger?
This forum should be dead by now, but whatever.
We should first consider the perspective of the "rager's (who we will refer to as... Oen)" opponent (who we will refer to as Sven) in question. [...]
Magnus' full name is Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen...
Glad someone got it.
Which begs the question, which is worse? A rage quitter who resigns when he loses a pawn, or a rage player who keeps promoting and delaying the game out of sheer anger?
This forum should be dead by now, but whatever.
We should first consider the perspective of the "rager's (who we will refer to as... Oen)" opponent (who we will refer to as Sven) in question. [...]
Magnus' full name is Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen...
Glad someone got it.
Ole decides to take Sven hunting for the first time...
What's black thinking resigning right here???
If he simply watched all of my games he would see that at least once every 1,000 games I will lose track of my horses and stalemate. Incredible. #NeverResignGang - go talk to this guy.
So, let me recap: You're mad at them for wasting your time, so you waste your own time and theirs even harder? Logic?
Somebody does something I do not like to me, and so I respond by getting even. Doing so isn't a waste of my own time because it's fun to promote everything to horses and toy with them.
Yes, it is a waste of time. What do you achieve with this? You only satisfy your pettiness, but you don't actually have a fun game. If it were up to you, the game would have ended ages ago, when you think he should have resigned. You waste your own time playing a game that is already over that you generally don't even want to play any more under the false premise that you want to teach them a lesson.
But I say it again: it's just petty and you do it to feel superior in some way by humiliating other people. That's not a productive use of your time. While you were wasting time with stupid joke moves, you could have jsut ended the game, got your win, walked away and started a new game.
I achieve having fun. You don't get to tell me what to enjoy.
Maybe it wouldn't be fun for you to promote a bunch of horses and mess with someone and let the clock run all the way down to 1 second before checkmating them. That is fun for me.
@22289d I understand you 100% and I also think that unsportmanship is on the side of the never-resign guy (except for true beginners). I came on that site to enjoy chess as a pleasure, to play on my spare time/commute/yesterday during a blood donation/ when I don't have books to read when waiting...
Finaly, I spend more time ending games with one extra queen or rook (sometime I just resign by boreness, sorry to say that) than actually thinking about smart moves (I mean, I reach an undoubtably winning position after 1 min., then take linger to grab the rest of the material and mate). If they were beginners it would be ok, and I'd be happy to analyse with them on demand, but I'm blamming "legends". It's harder and harder to enjoy playing there with this attitude (and people who punish you by letting the clock go, and trolls...).
The worse is that I realise that I give less and less value to the games I play, and play dumber and dumber. This is depressing
When someone doesn't resign a hopelessly lost position, I like to mess with them by promoting everything (usually to horses) and making a bunch of joke moves before finally delivering checkmate. They are wasting time and dragging out the game by not resigning so I do the same to them.
I don't ever delay games or stall in any other situation. So I have to assume my doing that caused people to report me and made me get the message below. I'm wondering if this is something that is actually against the rules and they would suspend or ban my account for, if I keep doing it.
Dear 22289d
We’ve been receiving reports of stalling and disconnecting in your games. We want to remind you that this does violate our Good Sportsmanship policy.
We would ask you resign or play on in the future in order to make Chess.com a more friendly place to play!
Thank you,Chess.com Supportsupport@chess.com
Well I never resign
When someone doesn't resign a hopelessly lost position, I like to mess with them by promoting everything (usually to horses) and making a bunch of joke moves before finally delivering checkmate. They are wasting time and dragging out the game by not resigning so I do the same to them.
I don't ever delay games or stall in any other situation. So I have to assume my doing that caused people to report me and made me get the message below. I'm wondering if this is something that is actually against the rules and they would suspend or ban my account for, if I keep doing it.
Dear 22289d
We’ve been receiving reports of stalling and disconnecting in your games. We want to remind you that this does violate our Good Sportsmanship policy.
We would ask you resign or play on in the future in order to make Chess.com a more friendly place to play!
Thank you,Chess.com Supportsupport@chess.com
Well I never resign
Check!
You promote the knights, then take them back to the first rank?
Check!
You promote the knights, then take them back to the first rank?
There is an old saying "you are what you do". How true that saying is can be debated, but many people identify with what they do. It defines them, it's what they want to be known for.
Most people play chess for recreation and in doing so, like most recreations, want to improve. When someone deliberately wastes his own time, and in doing so, hopefully wastes the time of others, it's insight to who they want to be, how they want to be known.
In many of the chess games we play we have to decide whether to play on, or resign. We decide what to do. Because what we do is who we are. My guess is that in most of the games shown here, the opponent got a little bit better, and he got a little bit worse.
Check!
You promote the knights, then take them back to the first rank?
Ya, try it sometime. It's not as easy as it looks to get them in a row like that.
Check!
You promote the knights, then take them back to the first rank?
Most people play chess for recreation and in doing so, like most recreations, want to improve.
Yes, me too. This is actually a somewhat rare situation for me as most of my opponents do resign. In all of those other games, I'm just another chess player. Playing and loving chess for the same reasons you probably do.
Great game from GM Wesley So against an IM the other day. A really close match up. Game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/91899057953?username=gmwso
He could have mated with Qh7# very early on.
#NeverResignGang Alert
Can't believe black would resign. He's probably gonna win that game, that pawn will become a queen no problem. A queen beats a rook and some pawns. Otherwise it's a for sure stalemate. All he had to do was watch all of my games to see that.
Great game from GM Wesley So against an IM the other day. A really close match up. Game link: https://www.chess.com/game/live/91899057953?username=gmwso
lol
Is there some context here? Or black is just following what he was taught and never resign?
tl;dr, at least you win against the rage quitter.