Is this good sportsmanship?

"please resign you are clearly lost..I am not mean.Just that i Have 555 games going on and i am a 2200 over the board rating...Thank you and good game"

Is this good sportsmanship?  Down a pawn and a knight, I am now going to play by the time rule he set, one move every three days and will make him go to the very last move.

 

I can't even say what I'm thinking.

 

But if you're going to lose, I'd go ahead and resign and put it all behind you since he apparently irritated you and every time you look at the game, you'll be irritated again. It's easier just to forget it and play a game you can enjoy. Life (and chess) is about enjoyment, not irritation.

No, it is not good sportmanship.  It's your game and your time.  No one needs to resign because someone says that.  I don't see anyone here with 555 games.  We asked anyone over 2200 to identify themselves as a titled player.  Would he resign if he was a pawn down playing Yelena Dembo if she said "Please resign.  You are clearly lost.  I am over 2500 and one of the top 20 ladies in the world.  Thank you and good game."  I doubt it.  All of us strong players will play weaker players who may be losing badly, but we let them finish the game.  If he was worried about yoru strengthm he did not have to accept.  There are plenty of players over 2200 here.

billwall wrote: Would he resign if he was a pawn down playing Yelena Dembo if she said "Please resign.  You are clearly lost.  I am over 2500 and one of the top 20 ladies in the world.  Thank you and good game." 

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 This is a complete non sequitor, but when I read this post the following phrase leapt unbidden into my mind. "I am Judit Polgár. Abandon all hope."

Although he shouldn't ask this, there is no reason to take your time just to piss him off. Just play your game like any other, and resign when you feel to, don't lower yourself to his level.

I'd say that was bad sportsmanship.  I can understand how being down a pawn and a knight against a player like that would be impossible to come back from. But  it's quit rude to ask anyone to resign. Maybe tell that player that they should consider limiting themselves to fewer games if they find the current game not worth playing. As for finishing the game I wouldn't be vindictive just finish the game per normal chess and try to learn something from it.

Any chess player can make a mistake and to tell someone to resign, I can understand how this goes under chess morale but only if the players are evenly matched, if one player is stronger than another, the weaker player can learn alot from the game by anlyzing it and going over notation.  I can't tell you how many games I resigned far far too early by even the 5th move because I thought a game was hopeless but later after anlyzing realized there was more to the game than I had thought.

It would be equally bad sportsmanship for you to carry out your plan for revenge.

 

On the other hand, I think there is a time and a place for resignations.  The last time I asked for a resignation, my opponent had blundered away his queen with no compensation.  Was that unsportsmanlike?

 

In reverse, as a scholastic chess teacher, I was trained to teach children of a certain age or ability to resign if they lost a certain ammount of material, e.g. the queen or its equivalent.  Not resigning a lost position can be equally unsportsmanlike.

 

Overall, I've always been in the minority here.  I like to call a spade a spade, and unless you think you can learn something from playing out the game, you should resign... On that note, there's a game here I think I should resign...

You should resign in your game against me I think. I mean... you're up a pawn with no compensation!

I posted a similar topic a while back.  The opponent probably didn't mean to annoy you but in my opinion it was bad sportsmanship because it is your decision.  Resign when you want to.  If the opponent thinks the game is taking too long, he can simply choose not to play against you again.  There is a correct time to resign but it's up to all of us to decide when that time is. 

Resignation is a very personal decision worthy of respect.  Coercion to resign in any form is tantamount to bullying or badgering and therefore poor sportsmanship.  On a related note, an ignore capability would be a welcomed feature for those of us who would rather play chess than deal with unsavory personalities.  Some of the chat I've endured here is unrepeatable for either gender.   

Never trust the enemy as to what move you should make.

Come on, I know some of you are willing to accept some external constraints for what counts as a reasonable time to resign, not just personal opinion or some new-age sh*t like "what best fits my style."

I dont like resigning and even when I only have a pawn and king left and my opponent is clearly winning (and its happened) I prefer to keep playing to the end. You never know when you may be able to fluke a draw I also like to win properly and prefer not to have my opponent resign, but thats up to them.

The same thing happened to me, when I refused his demand to resign he resorted to profanities and I had to report him.

Meh.. I would take that as a bit of joshing, and just get on with it.. I certainly wouldn't resign

Fwiw, in his book My Chess Career, Capablanca says something like "here he should have resigned."

 

But all of you are convinced that playing strength has nothing to do with whether someone ought to resign sooner rather than later.

 

Ergo, Capablanca was wrong.  Q.E.D.

Reservesmonkey wrote:

"please resign you are clearly lost..I am not mean.Just that i Have 555 games going on and i am a 2200 over the board rating...Thank you and good game"

 

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Next time someone says that, just reply, " I refuse to resign. You'll have to fire me." (Quote from a Fred Reinfeld book)

When Capablanca was losing to Lilienthal at Hastings in 1935, he said "When I noticed that Lilienthal had seen 20.exf6, I saw his eyes sparkling with satisfaction. Then I realized my defeat."  He should have resigned on move 20 according to Capablanca (he had just lost a knight), but he played on for 6 more moves.

Definitely a poor sport.

He should be beaten with his own shoes.