Why people refuse to resign?

Because of Hope, we hope to win 🏆

Another reason is we shouldn't trust most folks to convert an advantage to a win. Now if most folks are super GMs or masters, then it's probably ok to resign. But most folks are just amateurs. Add up time pressure and I think a lot lf us had seen how a losing game suddenly became a winning one because of a last second fatal mistake from the winning side. Sometimes you get stalemate and probably psychologically even more satisfying.

One more reason is if you are playing on a team, sometimes the strategy is to emotionallly and physically exhaust the winning player by making him work more so on the next match he/she is less "fresh". I have seen this employed against my emotionally explosive uncle. He was mad because his opponent didn't resign and keep nagging about it. It affected his next match and lost badly when I know he would have won that game easily if he was cool headed. Is it a dirty tactic, maybe? But it's legal. I was once a victim of a similar psychological tactic on the board when an opponent claimed a draw when it wasn't. I admit it annoyed me and kinda lost my focus and it indeed became a draw.

For most people that's reasonable advice. But many players here feel that advice from a beginner, for beginners, shouldn't apply to them.

If I live to be a thousand years old I will never understand how it is someone that plays CHESS can complain that their opponent is wasting time. It has to be the most hypocritical statement in the history of statements.

Never Ever, Ever Resign!

Final position is easy mate in 1 for opponent, who is 2450 and has 42 seconds to figure it out.

😂 oh my goodness.

and just in case anyone thinks that these sorts of miracles only happen once in a blue moon....

4 out of my last 5 blitz games had me make a comeback from positions that were -10 or worse

all games were against ~2400 opposition

NEVER EVER RESIGN!

I often don't resign because:

1. The level I play at usually involves blunders on both sides and further blunders are almost certain by my opponent even if they are winning.

2. It annoys the hell out of my opponent, particularly when they are ahead, and the frustration at me not resigning often causes them to blunder and hand me the win.

3. I am a very naughty and wicked human being that often gains satisfaction from driving my opponent up the wall.

Apologies, like my chess, my self is a work in progress.

If you're annoyed because you joined a rapid or classical and it's wasting your time, maybe just stick to blitz and bullet chess for now on. That's me having the assumption from this title that you already can count really far ahead.

A couple dozen moves that eventually win, a few that mate in one, but only a single move that draws in one. And that's the one they chose.

I'd like to say I would have stumbled on to one of the mates, but in reality I probably would have taken the bishop too.

I think it's better not to resign but I admit I do it out of laziness sometimes.

You never know when you might come back from a crap position. I was once losing to someone way more skilful than me and then won almost by accident. I just noticed a weak point and sent my queen down the board sheerly out of curiosity to see what would happen.

I prefer when people don't resign, too. Fight me to the death, don't roll over and give in.

Holy crap how did you get those beautiful red pieces?

Evidently, since they still have a hope to win. Furthermore you can report someone quitting on chess.com

I do resign, but I don't hold it against those that don't. And isn't it strange, it's the only game (That I can think of, anyway), where resigning is accepted. In boxing, darts, soccer, tennis or whatever you have to battle on to the bitter end. Maybe battling on in a loosing game of chess is educational. You'd never know, it might increase your endgame knowledge.

I know people have already given the same answer, but it's likely because they want to stick it out to the end in case you blunder and lose the game or stalemate.

Personally, I'm one of the people that will (almost) always play a game to the end, not only because of the reasons I stated above, but also just to get some practice.

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Nobody needs to resign a 10 minute blitz game. You have to win it.

because you might blunder and like giving them your queen and rooks

To improve defense and endgame tactics?

Only downside to never resigning is you end up with lots of games that look like this

https://www.chess.com/game/live/75795744891 

Also lots of morons who wait a minute or more until they have 1 second on the clock to deliver mate.