Indeed. @SunTzu~bro, do what ya gotta do but man! Take your expectations down a notch. Believe you me, no online mix action is worth any embarrassment, especially on this site. Be cool, grasshopper. 😎
sorry, i meant i want to put the first L in the win/lose. that cherry. no other kind. whew!
im not going to say who these stats belong to, but they seem odd: joined just a week ago.
65 wins, zero losses in Daily, yet rating relatively low.
5 wins, 0 losses in Rapid nice rating
An astounding 380 current, yes CURRRENT games, most on the 14 day ride.
Weird or typical?
Indeed! It's all good either way my brother! Heh. Coffee no good, though. Cold showers. Now that, blessed, always put me in the right perspective! Kidding not kidding😉
you keep playing so you can learn middlegame and the endgames to win
im not going to say who these stats belong to, but they seem odd: joined just a week ago.
65 wins, zero losses in Daily, yet rating relatively low.
5 wins, 0 losses in Rapid nice rating
An astounding 380 current, yes CURRRENT games, most on the 14 day ride.
Weird or typical?
im not going to say who these stats belong to, but they seem odd: joined just a week ago.
65 wins, zero losses in Daily, yet rating relatively low.
5 wins, 0 losses in Rapid nice rating
An astounding 380 current, yes CURRRENT games, most on the 14 day ride.
Weird or typical?
If I am hopelessly low on material, and my opponent doesn't have a direct attack, I resign. No reason to play out 30 ~ 40 moves when I am losing.
Otherwise, I like to play to the end, just because low piece endgames are good for practicing calculation. It's always fun to watch an opponent have difficulties mating with two queens and a rook.
Depends on situation and format:
Blitz - Forget it! You have to mate me!
Over the Board Standard - If there is any counter play, I will play on. Otherwise, resign.
Correspondence - Resign if you are hopelessly lost. There is no swindle in correspondence. Keep in mind many sites, like ICCF, allow computers. Computer says -1 does not mean lost. Computers think the Kings Indian is -1. -7 and down a rook in correspondence, that is lost. Give it up.
if both of you see checkmate, resign, but if he does not look satisfied, don't.
yes Chomsky i saw your name there. i will do same. good luck
Hopefully one of the early lessons we learn in life is how to win with humility and lose with grace.
you keep playing so you can learn middlegame and the endgames to win
once the game is lost it isnt an opportunity for learning it is just an exercise in ones stupidity
At a certain point, yes. Though I would not say it that bluntly 
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Play to the end and hope opponent loses connection or his mom walks in or something and tells him to go to sleep. Run around with your king and try to keep at least one pawn. Look for stalemate possibilities. Distract your opponent with random draw offer or text him something pre-made to make him look and thus lose 1 second on his clock. Create the toughest fortress you can make and pre-move 4 or 5 king moves back and forth. Throw in another draw offer. Move your last pawn to avoid him eating it as his clock runs out.
Then you will receive a mean comment on your page from him. Erase it.
Then play again and repeat from step 1.
65-0 is dubious, im playing my standard hypermoderns. Get her Chomsky. make her resign lol.
Play to the end and hope opponent loses connection or his mom walks in or something and tells him to go to sleep. Run around with your king and try to keep at least one pawn. Look for stalemate possibilities. Distract your opponent with random draw offer or text him something pre-made to make him look and thus lose 1 second on his clock. Create the toughest fortress you can make and pre-move 4 or 5 king moves back and forth. Throw in another draw offer. Move your last pawn to avoid him eating it as his clock runs out.
Then you will receive a mean comment on your page from him. Erase it.
Then play again and repeat from step 1.
Thats just upsetting how you have turned b-s-ing a losing position into a science.
LOL
Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
There is more. Say you’re losing badly and both have seconds left on the clock. And you have a breakthrough with pawns he can easily stop, well, he will probably pre-move taking the pawn that is trying to create the breakthrough, so don’t move it! Pre-move 3 king moves and then throw in the breakthrough!
Or say you got only a knight left and hopefully a pawn somewhere, and he has a rook and is about to queen his last pawn and both of you have 1 or 2 seconds left. Pre-move a knight route that ends in a check! This can run his clock out.
Another one I like is when you or your opponent hangs the queen, but keeps playing! Alertly and quickly. And then the guy who is up a queen hangs his queen or walks into mate because he assumed the game is in the bag... Even worse is when he can’t mate you in time thou he is up a queen. Lol
65-0 is dubious, im playing my standard hypermoderns. Get her Chomsky. make her resign lol.
Dubious, yep. The Sorry Anon has been banned. Monday morning shocker 
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"Besides, it's not worth doing any major legwork when your account will be gone by next week."
You should resign when you think the probability of winning this game is "significantly" worse than the probability of winning the next new game. Certainly you can win games down significant material, but on average you don't. So sure you can remember the games you pulled out because of a blunder by your opponent, but usually down a rook or worse in the end game it is over. So start a new game. On average you should win more games this way.
Put differently, what is your winning percentage in bad loosing end games? Probably 15%. Why play those games out when you can start new games where the probability is 50%?
Indeed. @SunTzu~bro, do what ya gotta do but man! Take your expectations down a notch. Believe you me, no online mix action is worth any embarrassment, especially on this site. Be cool, grasshopper. 😎
Naj, its all in fun. i have no expectations. I've had my chance(s) at love lol.
Coffee...this is all i have left.