Hey kids! Learn how to resign!

Sometimes it is enlightening to analyze a fully-played game to see what move you could have made that would changed your opponent’s 9.5 advantage to 7.7 pawn advantage.

No reason to have pages and pages of comments when the whole thing can be (correctly) summed up in one short paragraph.

My personal experience is that people under 1800 or so still aren't good enough to always win when they should. There is such a high percentage of stalemates (and even losses) from good positions I always play until the end. But I like your response. It's just a choice. It's neither sporting nor unsporting.  It's like trading a knight for a bishop. It's just a choice and it doesn't make sense to call it "sporting" if someone does or does not do it.

I totally agre with OP. It's so annoying when you're totally, winning and they don't resign and then it's stalemake or some other nonesense.

Dude, you're losing. LOSING. JUST RESIGN.

These people must be so frustrated in their life to be so obnoxious.

Also, stalemate should be a win and threefold repetition a loss.

Yeah, I know, these are ancient rules blablabla, but I don't ask to change the rules of chess, just change the rules on chess.com to make it more enjoyable by the huge majority of the users. I mean FIFA or PES don't have the exact same rules as socker anyway.

Now that I think of it, I got the ultimate solution : count points like in Quidditch.

 

Say you checkmake your opponent, bam +10 points, and the game ends. Most of the time, that's enough to win, but then you would have fascinating games like in the book where one opponent is losing but still pull off a checkmake and saves the honor but still lose the game because of point count and then everyone is happy.

And to finish game quicker you could claim a win if you're like up 10 points of material.

 

Of course, it would require the chess community to finally reach an agreement on the value of the horse (most experts put it slightly below 4, some as low as 2 and some other can go as high as 5 or 8 in extreme cases).

I resign when I am out of hope. If I'm down material, but think I have enough remaining material that I can swindle my opponent I will play on.

Similarly, if my opponent is not improving his position, or demonstrates that he doesn't know how to win the 'won' game, I will play on.

Otherwise I resign when I know I am lost.

This is satire, right? Please, oh please, let it be satire. 

Kids should keep asking for draws when in a losing position. The adult such as me gets increasingly angry until they feel like throttling the little minx. When the adult blunders the kid can mop up. When the kid asks for your grade, be careful not to throw them out of the window....My court case is next week...

This website isn’t for kids

makes me laugh. Two people agree to play a game of chess where the goal is to achieve checkmate. the person who achieves checkmate complains that he had to go through the motions of said checkmate.

> such a pity that it was on the Internet, otherwise I’d have put something in his mouth .<.

Hmm, threats of violence. Nice. Is that what you call decent behavior? You’ve met the problem and it is you.

There have been plenty of times where I have felt like resigning, but didn’t and won. Opponents often get cocky when they feel they’re ahead and mess up.

Was in a K v R+K ending against a B7 in my meet. I managed to get the guy agree to draw, even though he was winning. Never resign. 

I resign when the position is resignable

All talk cause at the end of the day if your playing by the rules your playing to win. If you can’t then you want a draw or stale mate
If you don’t see it like that then I’ll bet your not a general of any army. Cause that’s how those boys look at it in real life just as the play a game.

A win is a win
And avoiding a loss is avoiding a loss

Ever thing else is just talk
And talk is cheap

Really this whole topic is not about the title more appropriately the title should be,

“I don’t take responsibility for my lack of being able to close the deal. “

You’re expecting somebody to quit when really what happened was you weren’t able to Close the deal so to speak.

Had you made different choices you could have in every case checkmated your opponent but instead since you did almost a good enough job you expect them to quit.

Personally it drives me nuts when it’s a draw or stalemate and I had every reason from your point of you to expect them to quit but I don’t blame them I blame myself for not being able to close the deal it’s pretty much just as simple as that.

But our society hates taking responsibility for things nobody is at fault because everybody else is

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Lol well played