Anyone else feel cheated by those who are quick to resign?

I agree here. I'm playing to get better, not to swindle. When I'm losing and don't know how, followed by me dropping a piece, I'll just resign and try to figure out exactly when things went downhill, so it won't happen in my next game.

@glamdring27 whether in blithering around a piece up, a piece down or exactly even, it's still fun to me. Guess I just enjoy chess more than you do.

People are wired differently. Your definition of "fun" is different than me and glamdring's definition I guess.

@snudoo definitely. I can have fun with games I'm winning, games that are dead even and games I'm losing.

I think swindling an opponent is great fun! I once blundered away a queen in a game and I still beat my opponent! This was a live otb game and just to rub things in I offered to play him a game with me giving him Queen odds!

I'm glad we've resolved this.

I like winning! haha!

no. It doesn't mean the game isn't over for all intensive purposes though.

OMG another Stonewall Attack player!  Do you also own the Andrew Soltis Book on this topic?  I also find it frustrating that this doesn't have its own ECO code

@jerkyrobot I have the books by tim sawyer for Stonewall and Dutch.

No. A win is a win, I move on to the next challenge, The increase to my rating means that my next adversary will be less likely to do so and more likely to teach me something new,

If you get lucky enough to find a copy of it, its worth the read, you can also check out the games he has listed in it off chessgames.com just google chessgames.com and Stonewall Attack 

All I know about the Stonewall comes from Lakdawala's Colle System book and his Bird's opening book.

Ultimately if an opponent wants to resign, it's upto them. I'd never insist an opponent doesn't resign the same way I'd never insist they should. Ultimately I can just start a new game and play a new opponent I guess.

@fizzyband see if you would have resigned when down in material against me you would have lost. By playing on you managed to salvage a time out. Well done.