Doesn't Resigning Just Feel Better?

This is a spin-off from one more discussion about why some players just delay the game rather than resign when it's clear they are going to lose.  As much as I hate to lose the rating points, resigning rather than living through the agony of a slow-death at the board is better for me - cutting loses just feels better than the alternative. 

What about it?

Yes.

Do you really not know why people drag the game out, or are you just using it as a sounding board?

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What I meant in the other discussion topic, I suppose, is that while I can provide reasons why someone would drag out a game - things like keeping one's rating as high as possible as long as possible, spite, avoiding unpleasantness, etc. - I just don't get why someone would be motivated by such things over a sense of fair play.  I must also acknowledge that while I believe my sense of fair play is broadly shared, it might not be everyone's. I am referring to people who both don't resign and who slow down there play.  I get why some people don't resign under any condition but continue to play at their regular rate.

Life is tough.  Non-chess woes can override relatively perfunctory etiquette.  My job sucks and my spouse cheats on me, but at least I can feel in control as I drive around town 5 miles under the speed limit, collecting a caravan of cars behind me, making a dozen people late to work (or so I hope lol).

Just an example, see what I mean?

That's a possibility wafflemaster. I think most of the people that do this are very immature people. Most likely children that have a lot of time to waste and aren't considerate of other people's schedules. Plus, they get away with it. The fair play policy doesn't do anything. I've had to wait 15 minutes for a game to be over because my opponent blundered on his 3rd move. In the process I looked at his profile and he had pages and pages of angry comments saying how he should resign and whatnot. These people don't get in any trouble. The fair play policy is like filing a police report and the police man tells you "We'll do our best to find the guy that did this." Then you ask "Have you ever found anyone?" And he responds "No." 

I resign when I know the position is lost. I resign earlier in online, because I have a lot of games going and sometimes it gets to be a lot of games so I want to end them.

it's nice if u are totally failing

I never play on out of spite. Generally, playing on makes me feel that I am selling my full point as dearly as possible, rather than just giving it away, and that does make me feel good, even if I ultimately lose the game. Obviously, there comes a point where fighting spirit is unlikely to change anything, such as being down a whole rook in an ending, but I probably play on more positions than most people at my level would (even people lower than me), because I have been in enough "obviously winning in theory" positions, that I didn't actually win, to appreciate the practical benefits of making sure you're not quitting too soon.

If I can save 10% of hopeless looking positions that I get, meaning I still lose nine of every ten of them and win or draw one of them, I'm pretty happy, and I think my playing on was worth it.

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Go on...

Dude.. that's how you survive a nuclear blast at ground zero!   You NEED those doors dummy!  Sheesh

I hate getting trapped in a freezer.

I don't think it makes you feel better, just more "professional"

some people think that its etiquette to resign.

LOV THAT COLD SHIVER AS I HIT RESIGN BUTTON---TALK ABOUT FEELING BETTER.

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Sometimes I delay resigning, but only if I still have a chance on a winning attack, even if I'm let's say down two pieces. If it doesn't work and it's defended properly, I resign.

I am new. I don't know why players disconnect or let the clock run and make no moves. Do players lose less points by letting the clock run out?