As I have learnt from the forums, it is impolite to waste the other persons time forcing them to play out the mate. The Russian girl should have resigned.
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If that was me in the red...
...not saying i'm a girl...
..but I would have jumped on the table and done a wee dance!!!

As I have learnt from the forums, it is impolite to waste the other persons time forcing them to play out the mate. The Russian girl should have resigned.
Should I then resign on move #1 against anyone rated significantly higher than me? Since it would be rude to force them to demonstrate they are better than I am.

Girya did smile at the end after Ushenina walked off. I bet Ushenina was one of the students that said early in her training days "why do I need to learn such an unlikely ending, It's never going to actually happen in my games anyway".

As I have learnt from the forums, it is impolite to waste the other persons time forcing them to play out the mate. The Russian girl should have resigned.
Should I then resign on move #1 against anyone rated significantly higher than me? Since it would be rude to force them to demonstrate they are better than I am.
LOL I was joking man...
I'm shocked! She didn't even shake hands after the game, but just walked away... How rude!
Yup, the biggest surprise for me was how poorly she handled the situation.
Let's just forgive her... she was really not happy
Temperamental folk are chess people!