Again, I'm I can not possibly address everything you've said. I would rather not continue the conversation at all, but I want to end with this: My original comment was not advice for him. It was my response to your comment. I didn't tell him that he should've resigned, I simply said I don't see why you praised him for not resigning, as in general this is not an admirable trait.
I've never seen somebody use the word spite as a verb (spiting), but I'll admit that I was wrong about the meaning of spite. While the meaning I was refering to was one meaning, it does indeed have a more malicious meaning which I was not aware of. So I apologize for that arrogant statement by me, but I do not apologize for my original comment.
Unfortunately what happens is that when you get involved in a discussion like this you quickly forget what you were originally arguing about and proceed to change your stance multiple times. Eventually you look back and wonder how you got into this discussion to begin with. Well if you look back at my original comment, there is actually nothing in it which I wouldn't say again (albeit with a slightly different use of words). All the subsequent things I said were the result of attempting to defend my postition against strawmans, and I do take back some of the things I said in the spur of the moment. Hopefully nobody here was too offended ;)
@TheRussianPatzer: OK, it's obvious I misunderstood what you meant about playing out of spite ... however that is because you used the term incorrectly. Spite does NOT mean "just because." I believe you are thinking of the idiom "In spite of." To play "In spite of" means to play on anyway. Example: "I played in spite of losing my queen."
However, what you wrote is: "I play out of spite" and "Don't think playing out of spite is so bad." and originally "You may say it was because he has "fighting spirit", but often it's just out of spite in hopes that the opponent will drop dead or something." When used in this context the term means malicious intent or ill-will.
When condude2 wrote about "spiting his opponent" he used the term correctly, as the word is both a noun and a verb, depending on the context. In his context, what he wrote was that he had never maliciously played on just to aggravate his opponent.
What you wrote here (although I'm now starting to understand you were confused by the meaning of the word and did not mean what you wrote) is that you thought it was probable that dreamgamer maliciously played on in the position simply to irritate or annoy for the sake of irritating or annoying the opponent. There’s no point in arguing the matter. It’s a fact of the English language.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spite
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spite
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spite
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/spite
I understand there are areas of "chess etiquette" that we are simply not going to agree on, and that's OK. However, following your last post to condude2 (which was arrogant, obviously incorrect, and disrespectful ... writing "Lol" and accusing him of manipulating your words), I feel compelled to write the following: if you are truly interested in showing respect to other people, you should consider changing some of your behaviors.
With all due respect TheRussianPatzer, you’re obviously a talented young player, but until you start treating people with respect, you are more a hindrance to your goal than a help. No one wants to take etiquette advice from someone they find rude or disrespectful, which is how you have come across in several of these posts. If you had originally written something to the following effect …
“Congrats on the win. But you’ll want to be careful of that as you start playing better competition and enter tournaments …a lot of time fighting on after losing a queen is looked at as disrespectful and frowned upon.
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... then it is very probably these discussions would have taken a much more friendly turn ... assuming they had continued at all. You’d have given your opinion, no big deal. Instead, you chose initiate your participation by mocking someone else’s congratulations, then later you proceeded to deride the game and the opponent’s playing strength, then when you mistakenly wrote that you believed dreamgamer was playing out of malice or ill-will (out of spite) and were called on it … you obviously didn't check the word, but simply assumed condude2 didn’t understand the word, but you did.
Again, we’re not going to agree on everything … but someone needs to tell you that are not representing yourself as mature or respectful. And if you’d like to become any kind of effective ambassador for your views on ‘chess etiquette’, you need to correct this behavior.