Never resign?

THANKS everyone for your input (including any future input that's relevant)

lol

my early chess master tutor coupled with the extremely able players in my social groups, many years ago spoke of resigning games. All saw that continuing grew opportunities for one; and that increasingly the player with the upper hand just may err sufficient to right the balance. A very recent UK player iterated exactly this.

The high emotion sometimes expressed by a few members baffle me, and leaves me cold. Don't harangue. Your opponent (someone like me) will marshall troops and abilities to turn the game around. Where is your integrity as the teacher?

To be honest playing in a position I know is lost brings me no joy so I resign, I play to have fun and unless I can at least play for a draw I won't carry on unless time is very short in a live game rather than online (day+) as time is as much a part of those games as position

At your level, Nimzo, I can see resigning against another player of similar ability when the advantage is clear. For most of us hacks, we play on (most of the time) knowing that a mistake can happen with the next move. 

So, to answer your question, no, most of us don't play out our losses. Some of us may take longer since an error may be made, and it can turn the game.

I play till I see no hope.

At my level, it might be a few moves after my opponent realises I have no hope. If  knew what he knew, I'd often resign earlier.

There is fun to be had in fighting on. Winning isn't everything.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=59304106

It depends on your opponents, losing isn't lost if you have counterplay.

With best play I'm dead in these games, I think it would have been silly to resign. (worst games I've played recently though).

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=58962556

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=58778214

There lies the rub for us hacks, rooperi!!

then there are the dudes who overpower their opponents, have a mate-in-one on the board and resign!!!!  yep!  happens on here

Many that I play come to realize that I am the most interesting man in the world, and they end up resigning. My attitude and charisma somehow gets to them, even on the internet.

Maybe you need to be more interesting, Nimzo?!?

good point!

Al I'd settle for being a better chess player!

A thing I am not going to do is to forgo resigning because of the mere possibility that my opponent will be exposed as a cheat.  My general experience is that cheating is rare but suspicion is not.  Suspicion undermines people's ability to co-operate - on this site, co-operating in search of fun - and I just dump as much of it as I can. I can understand the OP's annoyance but it would not lead me to change my approach to resignation, or to anything else for that matter.

Whether to resign or not is a matter of personal style and choice.  In the UK there is a social convention in otb competitive play - a local league say - of resigning hopeless positions; playing on in the hope of a blunder from your opponent would be thought just a little bit naff.  But only a very little bit.  In otb tournament play I would have thought resignation would bring the benefit of some time to relax and re-charge the batteries for the next round, or to get over the annoyance of the loss. Or to play a hand or two of bridge. But I am not a very experienced otb tournament player.

that is very true indeed.you can never know whether your opponent is cheating so you cannot anyhow accuse...

"I don't always resign, but when I do, it's when I have no counterplay." -scottrf

Haha!

You keep fighting until the end. I don't care if the opponent has a queen and you have a lone king. They might stalemate. If they don't like it, stop playing chess. If you resign you are a quitter. I hate when people don't resign and the opponent cries like a baby because they don't. If you don't like it, you need to stop playing chess.

The king says it all!

Finally, a 'no quitter' who hasn't quit.

Well played Elvisthekingii, well played.