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There was no possible way he could have won, so he resigned rather than fight a losing battle to the end. What do you find wrong with this? You win the game either way....
you totally creamed him!!!
Gert-Jan wrote: According to dalmatinac I'm an idiot or a beginner (its up to you) because I would not resign in this situation. I'm in a game in which I've lost a lot of pieces. But that doesn't mean I am checkmate already. So its the challenge for my opponent to get me checkmate and it's a challenge for me to get my left pieces stuck or offered and than come to a stalemate. It's difficult for me but its a nice challenge and I think fun for my opponent. I think its also not disrespectfull. When your soccer team is winning do you want the opponent to leave the field?? offcourse not. Thats disrespectfull!!!
chess is different my friend, let me explain you.
If you have just your king left on the board, and the opponent has 2 queens, do you still believe that you will win? you are a beginner, i don't think that you're an idiot (i think so)
I like it when my opponent resigns. By now all the real chess has been played and the end is inevitable without some serious blunders
i think that gateman is just trying to belittle his opponent by airing the game in public and talking down to him. i would have resigned in that position and would like to know why gateman needs try and make a fool out his opponent. maybe he was bullied at school. why the inadequacy gates?
gateman i have challenged you. we can post the game when we have finished. it will be interesting to see if im a noob too (whatever that is).
Jan 15, 2008
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#27
Pawntor wrote: Gert-Jan wrote: According to dalmatinac I'm an idiot or a beginner (its up to you) because I would not resign in this situation. I'm in a game in which I've lost a lot of pieces. But that doesn't mean I am checkmate already. So its the challenge for my opponent to get me checkmate and it's a challenge for me to get my left pieces stuck or offered and than come to a stalemate. It's difficult for me but its a nice challenge and I think fun for my opponent. I think its also not disrespectfull. When your soccer team is winning do you want the opponent to leave the field?? offcourse not. Thats disrespectfull!!!
chess is different my friend, let me explain you.
If you have just your king left on the board, and the opponent has 2 queens, do you still believe that you will win? you are a beginner, i don't think that you're an idiot (i think so)
I did not say you can always win. I wanted to point out that when you are loosing the fun is not over for both players (maybe for one of them). A king against two queens is a losing game. But in that situation the game will be over soon and there is no waste of time. therefore, there is no reason to resign. You can give your opponent the fun of checkmating you.
I would like to point out thar gateman has refused my challenge. God, I hate bullies. There was recently an adertising campaign on british tv, it may have been run worldwide. It was fronted by Pele, the Brazillian football legend, and encouraged a certain type of person to ring a freephone number to get help with a certain type of problem. Gateman, if I were you, I'd persue that number.
I did not say you can always win. I wanted to point out that when you are loosing the fun is not over for both players (maybe for one of them). A king against two queens is a losing game. But in that situation the game will be over soon and there is no waste of time. therefore, there is no reason to resign. You can give your opponent the fun of checkmating you.
I don't mind if people want to play on when I have two queens.
Of course, I would always resign a position when I am down by that much material, as I understand that anyone who is good enough to gain such an advantage over me would be able to mate me with two queens.
Also, if you have played more than five games of chess, mating your opponent when you have two queens is not "fun".
Jan 16, 2008
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#30
Gert-Jan wrote: Pawntor wrote: Gert-Jan wrote: According to dalmatinac I'm an idiot or a beginner (its up to you) because I would not resign in this situation. I'm in a game in which I've lost a lot of pieces. But that doesn't mean I am checkmate already. So its the challenge for my opponent to get me checkmate and it's a challenge for me to get my left pieces stuck or offered and than come to a stalemate. It's difficult for me but its a nice challenge and I think fun for my opponent. I think its also not disrespectfull. When your soccer team is winning do you want the opponent to leave the field?? offcourse not. Thats disrespectfull!!!
chess is different my friend, let me explain you.
If you have just your king left on the board, and the opponent has 2 queens, do you still believe that you will win? you are a beginner, i don't think that you're an idiot (i think so)
I did not say you can always win. I wanted to point out that when you are loosing the fun is not over for both players (maybe for one of them). A king against two queens is a losing game. But in that situation the game will be over soon and there is no waste of time. therefore, there is no reason to resign. You can give your opponent the fun of checkmating you.
there is no fun in mating with 2 queens against a king. As you get better you will understand this. I am not saying that you have to resign. But, realize if you are playing a good player and don't resign in such positions they will not want to play you anymore(Just for future reference.)
Answer to why resign. 1. You are a quitter. 2. To make it easier for babies that don't know how to checkmate or are to lazy to do the work. 3. You get tried of players badgering you to resign.
Every great chess player has resigned...
Why do you think that is?
Capablanca, Alekhine, Kasparov- all quitters, the lot of them?
Jan 16, 2008
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#33
There was this time I was playing someone about 400 pts over me. Against the odds I developed a powerful advantage. He made me mate him. I know he was going for a stupid draw on my part. I got him, but it was not pretty. Analysis afterward showed I missed about six mate-in-ones.
Resigning is personal. Do you have plans better than accepting loss? Play on! The laws of chess (i.e. "the rules") say checkmate, forced draw, declarable draw. If someone wants a demonstration of your abilities, it's ok.
The problem I have with people not resigning is the bitter fustration that losing a game you most definatly should have won...
I just get bored with games I am totally winning, as they offer no stimulating challenge what-so-ever. -- this is when you make mistakes, and end up losing/drawing.
a game on here recently, I "sacrificed" the queen for 3 peices and a passed pawn, spend the next 20 or so moves trying to promote it and then bam!
I fall into a very simple mate trap, a trap which I shouldn't have fooled for, and a trap i could have stopped at any moment....sigh.
truth is, if you play me you should never resign, if you play on chances are you will quite literally, bore me to defeat.
Jan 16, 2008
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#35
I guess I understand you Blackadder. I experiened the same situation recently. I was up one rook inexchange of two pawns but then I mistakenly moved my rook defending my other rook. And it happened, now he is up two paws and n enormous position.
^ the game i was talking about...
it sucks to lose like this...:(
Jan 17, 2008
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#37
I understand that having two queens against you that its not very interesting for good players. In that case you could resign because you lost. okey.In that case you'r right.
But I once played a game in which I did not resign and he had to work pretty hard to checkmate me. He did make a mistake which costed him his queen. and it was interesting because I wanted to get all my pieces stuck and go for a stalemate. I think it depends on the rating of the opponent.
When your opponent can lose (or draw) when he makes a mistake I will not resign.
JediMaster wrote: Answer to why resign. 1. You are a quitter. 2. To make it easier for babies that don't know how to checkmate or are to lazy to do the work. 3. You get tried of players badgering you to resign.
All of the world champions have resigned in lost positions, do you think they are all "quitters"? You should stick to production work JM . 
Gert-Jan wrote:
I understand that having two queens against you that its not very interesting for good players. In that case you could resign because you lost. okey.In that case you'r right.
But I once played a game in which I did not resign and he had to work pretty hard to checkmate me. He did make a mistake which costed him his queen. and it was interesting because I wanted to get all my pieces stuck and go for a stalemate. I think it depends on the rating of the opponent.
When your opponent can lose (or draw) when he makes a mistake I will not resign.
He lost his queen. Did he win the game? This doesn't really seem to support your argument.