is it wrong to tell someone to resign when their down over 10 points?
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JoelRoocke
Apr 18, 2023
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#21
IMO it depends on time and what level of chess. If you are 10+ points up, plenty of time, I will recommend they resign, I resign if I think my position is completely losing, sure I may get a 2% chance of winning or drawing but what’s the point in that? I save myself and my opponent time so that we can move onto our next games, it’s not meant to be a tease.
May 12, 2023
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#22
I have changed my mind after i have made some friends after telling them to resign so i no longer do it.
yes and no
to be fair no one wants to see themselves get painfully demolished from every instance in a chess game, but resigning just makes you a loser
May 12, 2023
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#24
of course it’s wrong. Just play. Don’t tell your opponent anything. I was down 10 in my last game and won it. At my level (860’s) it’s not uncommon to trade blunders. If they want to go to bitter end, maybe hoping for stalemate, it’s their right.
May 12, 2023
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#25
Yes obviously wrong, comeback due to overconfidence, trade blunders are always possible. Furthermore how many games end up with Stale?
May 12, 2023
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#26
It would be wrong to tell them to resign, but there's no harm in nicely asking your opponent if they would mind resigning in order to save time.
May 12, 2023
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#27
"their down ten points"
that means that the 'down ten points' are owned by them
you are looking for "they're down ten points"
May 12, 2023
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#28
and to the question, it is very wrong
idk why people in chess.com feel that they are entitled to people resigning or accepting rematches
besides, it is considered normal practice otb to not resign (from personal experience, otb (where people are less likely to mess up) no one resigns)
May 12, 2023
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#29
If a player is in a hopelessly lost position I suggest to them that they resign and start over....the only thing that is achieved by playing out a lost game is wasting time. This rule holds only for a situation wherein the losing player has no options....i.e. the opposing player has plenty of time, there is no reasonable way to salvage a draw with a three-peat or stalemate draw,etc. There is nothing to be learned or gained by playing out such games. Players that do so are mostly driven by spite.This isn't an ethical question, any more than requesting a draw; a player can suggest his opponent resign,said opponent can decline, whether or not the exchange is rude or "wrong" depends on context and intent. Personally, I resign, if based upon the board,I feel I do not have a reasonable chance to draw; sometimes this means resigning after dropping a pawn,or even if material is even.
May 12, 2023
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#30
#31
nope you test your opponents knowledge of the win
(btw what do you mean by "hopelessly lost" if it is KQK mate then nope many people dont know that and they dont deserve a win w/o being tested if it is something like being up tons of material then stalemate is very important so idk where your logic works imo)
badger_song wrote:
If a player is in a hopelessly lost position I suggest to them that they resign and start over....the only thing that is achieved by playing out a lost game is wasting time.
It doesn't matter how lost the position is, there is no such thing as 'hopelessly lost', because there is always hope.
Even if you are moving your king all around the board hoping your opponent's internet connection drops out or they accidentally hit the resign button. Miracles happen, and some people think the feeling of surviving a single completely losing position outweighs the hundreds of games where time was 'wasted' by not resigning.
have that happen agianst 1700s
chadnilsen wrote:
It would be wrong to tell them to resign, but there's no harm in nicely asking your opponent if they would mind resigning in order to save time.
There is no such thing as "asking nicely" in this instance. It would be like a creep with long greasy hair asking for my phone number. The only response is "get lost and mind your own business".
May 12, 2023
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#35
lfPatriotGames wrote:
Stuff about minimum requirements for dating "
Something is off with that analogy.
badger_song wrote:
lfPatriotGames wrote:
Stuff about minimum requirements for dating "
Something is off with that analogy.
Easy fix. Don't ask.
yes
May 13, 2023
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#39
lfPatriotGames wrote:
chadnilsen wrote:
It would be wrong to tell them to resign, but there's no harm in nicely asking your opponent if they would mind resigning in order to save time.
There is no such thing as "asking nicely" in this instance. It would be like a creep with long greasy hair asking for my phone number. The only response is "get lost and mind your own business".
"Hi! I'm getting kinda bored and this game is pretty much over, would you mind resigning? I totally understand if you don't want to. Thanks."
What's wrong with that? It's nothing serious. We're playing a game.
May 13, 2023
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#40
Perhaps the OP should have worded his question differently.Grammatically,the OP is using the verb to tell as an imperative, which can be easily be considered offensive.If the OP had used the verb to suggest or a grammatically similar verb,I don't think that a reasonable person would consider the resulting question offensive: in the context of this thread, to tell someone is a command,to suggest isn't. Then again,a great many forum threads are simply troll threads,so maybe the OP stated exactly what he meant.