Rude people.
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Jun 22, 2008
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#22
yea people like him piss me off too, luckly (for the other person) i havent played against someone like that yet in my 8 months of playing chess lol
There are many reasons to play chess. One of them is to win.
Jun 22, 2008
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#24
I don't resign. Period. I've won situations where I was playing agianst better competition with superior positions. Even more often, I've drawn.
If someone asks me to resign, I ask them why. I'm no grandmaster. I've never played one. If I did, and I was in a lesser possition, then I probably would, but until then...
no, this is a picture of nimzowitsch. gloves up!
Dmytro wrote: Not resigninig in a complete lost position is also unpolite as telling your opponent to resign.
how you ask the opponent to resign must be part of the equation. for an extreme hypothetical example, what if i have a winning position and my opponent hasn't figured that out yet. Then i start ranting about it, insult my opponent, and throw some racist slurs and political jabs at my opponent. i don't think anyone will really care that i was winning, when it comes to figuring out who was more polite.
p.s. i stumbled across the photo trying to find their real game.
I'm a die hard player- and I actually realized I made a mistake well into a potentially hopeless scenario that I could have perhaps turned around lately- in the least I feel I added pressure.
I never taunt or tease- save friends I'm teaching, and even then I do so kindly enough and in full jest.
Additionally, I came to your profile out of interest in perhaps joining your tournament for poets and writers.
I'm online constantly- but don't have the 1/day stats yet for most other open tournaments.
I take as much interest in the history of openings and the the game as I do in making verbal metaphors, historical parallels and cautionary quips to my online friends/opponents.
Though typically I am more often bested than I am successful- I rarely have bragging rights, so I think the person might have been a bit rude as you note above.
I certainly realize that when I know I'm beat, I'm beat, but I've rarely resigned under those circumstances if I have any chance of pulling it out (their mistake perhaps?) or just to have the experience.
That's the justification anyway.
Mostly, I think I'm just a stubborn bastard.
well in the end, said antagonist offered a heartfelt apology and my win ratio increased when my total games played at once dropped down to a more conservative number.
I resign when I feel I should, but a lot of people resign way to early on this site. How can one improve their endgame if you never make it to or through one. Sometimes, even though I think I will lose I still continue so I can see how my opponent finshes the game. It can be a learning experience.