Is there a cure on stupidity?
Is it impolite to resign when you are in a winning position?
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wormrose wrote:
macer75 wrote:
wormrose wrote:
RecursiveThread wrote:
If you're old enough to have such skills than you're also old enough to make a decision yourself.
My point precisely...
But I thought your point was that if someone who isn't stupid continuously acts stupid, then in time he or she will actually become stupid, but some who actually is stupid cannot become not stupid by acting not stupid? I don't see how you get from that to "If you're old enough to have such skills than you're also old enough to make a decision yourself."
How does a stupid person act "not stupid"? Do you really think the rest of us cannot tell when a person is pretending to be stupid?
It's proven that people who pretend to have mental disorders will develop those very mental disorders for real. After a while of pretending it becomes difficult to distinguish between the real and the pretend. Even actors have trouble with this. Sean Connery is one such case.
Since the point of playing chess is to win the game, then I submit it would be stupid to resign when you are winning. And also insulting!
And since when has being "stupid" been a mental disorder?
Look, I'm only doing this because you're making an incredibly bold statement, which seems like one of those claims that sounds nice, but is really just... meh. Sometimes it's true and sometimes it's not.
no, its impolite to kick your opponent under the table when the guy in charge is not paying attention, but you can resign if you want, is your call
santiagomagno15 wrote:
no, its impolite to kick your opponent under the table when the guy in charge is not paying attention, but you can resign if you want, is your call
I agree! If you're gonna hit your opponent, do it above the table!
Dec 22, 2017
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#47
I resigned one time when I was winning because my higher rated opponent made a blunder twice in a row . I thought he did it on purpose to let me win and I didn’t like that. But then later I thought it’s possible he was drunk and blundered twice for real. So now if I see that again from opponents I just assume they’re drunk and continue to play.
Dec 22, 2017
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#48
Scenario - You are driving along and come to a stop sign. What do you do?
(In twenty words or less)
wormrose wrote:
Scenario - You are driving along and come to a stop sign. What do you do?
(In twenty words or less)
Run it over.
Dec 22, 2017
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#50
I was also not happy one opponent resigned in a winning position. I send him a message demanding an explanation. He said he’s insulted by my comment that the objective of the game is king, not queen! I was joking! He was chasing my queen all over the board.
Dec 23, 2017
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#51
he probably figured it was the hetero thing to do, little did he know the rules of chess make no hetero sense.
Lone_Bird960 wrote:
I was also not happy one opponent resigned in a winning position. I send him a message demanding an explanation. He said he’s insulted by my comment that the objective of the game is king, not queen! I was joking! He was chasing my queen all over the board.
While we're on the subject of people feeling insulted by weird things...
A couple of years ago, I played a live game here on chess.com, where I eventually reached a position where I had a rook and pawn to my opponent's lone king. My opponent wasn't resigning, so I wanted to promote the pawn and do a ladder mate (which was probably the quickest mate in the position) - but as soon as I make one move with the pawn, which was at the starting position or not too far from it, my opponent blocks me and disconnects from the game. So, as I'm waiting for his time to run out, I go to his profile, and I see a note that he left himself, that said something along the lines of: If you're here, it's probably because you were blocked by me for one of the following reasons - one of which was "insulting me by going for extra material in the endgame when you have enough to checkmate me" (I'm paraphrasing, but the "insulting" part was what he actually said). The message ended with something like: now don't you do anything rash, because I'm going to report you.
To this day, that guy is still one of the most... interesting personalities I've seen on this site. And believe me, there are a lot of interesting personalities here.
Dec 23, 2017
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#53
A player might resign from a winning position if an urgent matter required immediate attention. It's more polite than disconnecting.
Dec 23, 2017
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#54
when in a winning position, its impolite to sneer, smirk while glancing at the opponent who has beads of sweat dripping down his forehead trying to save a lost position, swing your arm wildly up and down with your other hand in the pit to make lots of loud "air leaving balloon" noises, laugh and point at your opponent, still it doesn't get any lower than resigning while winning, it could cause your opponent to flip, be prepared to run.
Thanks RecursiveThread, glad you agree with me. If my opponent resigned on me when he had a winning position, I'd be overjoyed. Why be insulted??