Dear friends,
I play 10 min games with a ELO score of around 1400-1500.
I wish to discuss why there are so many people on chess.com who simply refuse to resign a losing game. I think it's a lack of respect and a waste of time to not resign when you don't have a decent chance of winning anymore. Hoping for a couple of blunders, running out of time, or a blunderdraw. It annoys the hell out of me. I block everyone who does that, but they just keep on coming. I also notice some nationalities doing this a lot more than others. I wish there was a pool with opponents that like to play respectfully.
Please also join the discussion if you are one of those douche bags Help me understand why you are doing this.
In Blitz and Rapid playing the clock is just as important as playing the board. If you have used up 95% of your time to get into a winning position people are entitled to prove that you can mate them in the remaining time.
If you are in such a winning position then it shouldn't be difficult to win the game anyway, so some one not reigning shouldn't really be a problem
I wouldn't normally look through someone's history but I wanted to understand an example of the complaint so I found this where OP blundered 2 rooks in a row.
Don't take this the wrong way OP but this game says to me that your policy of blocking people that don't resign is hurting your chess because even as someone that's a couple of hundred points below you some of your endgame moves don't make sense. Even once you lost your rooks (which is easily done) you were in a massive winning position because you had all 4 pawns on the right hand side in play Vs Black's 2. You could have easily overwhelmed black if you'd moved them up together instead of sending them up one at a time (on move 46 if you'd played f5 you basically would have won because black couldn't have stopped you promoting a pawn). It feels like from this game you're very good at openings but because you (presumably) resign when a piece down and block people that don't you don't have much experience of endgames and that means you're prone to endgame blunders.
He was pressured on the clock. For me, 10|0 is a pretty difficult time control. You are sometimes lulled in a false sense of security: "Yeah, 10 minutes, plenty of time" and one or 2 tougher decisions later, and you have 2 minutes left... Even 5|5 is easier to play. You know beforehand that you don't have much time, and it is still more difficult to flag than in 10|0. 10|0 is a rapid game in name only.
In 10|0, a lot of games will be decided by the clock, either by flagging or by blundering due to the lack of time. So playing on in a losing position is even more understandable in faster games like these.