You are being a very bad sport for posting this. It is not up to a player to resign, it is up to you to win the game.
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I agree, the OP is full of horse manure. I mean, literally you're most recent game you were 3 points up and lost. Why would anyone resign against a player that can still make blunders from that position.
Aug 22, 2020
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#5
And I'm not talking about being down an exchange, I'm talking about s*** like this
TheCalculatorKid wrote:
You are being a very bad sport for posting this. It is not up to a player to resign, it is up to you to win the game.
He’s not being a bad sport. While you do not have to resign ever, it is certainly very disrespectful not to if you’re opponent is a good player and up a decisive amount of material.
I agree he is not being a bad sport. There are many reasons for a player to resign that most low rated players do not realize.
Do not judge him just because you are ignorant of the reasons to resign!?
Aug 22, 2020
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I also have sympathy, however the problem comes with defining a “completely lost position”. If time is tight then even completely lost positions can stumble into draws (I’ve been on both sides of a King vs King + 2 Queens endgame which has ended in accidental stalemate due to time pressures). So there are certainly situations where I would try to sneak a draw.
Think of it as practice in closing a game out successfully, and remember that the hardest game to win is a won game.
Think of it as practice in closing a game out successfully, and remember that the hardest game to win is a won game.
@fizzyband playing a game against someone and demanding they resign the game before it's over is the very definition of bad sportsmanship. Especially given the OP has lost many many games when up in material.
@osfan37 why would an opponent have resigned in that game? You aren't even trying to win at the end, you had plenty of opportunity to achieve checkmate yet complain your opponent is wasting your time and disrespecting you?
Giving up even though you have a chance to still fight? I've won down pieces or in 'losing positions' just deal with it, all you have to do is win, and if you can't well that's not your opponents fault, and right now your the only person here being a bad sport
All I here is cry...
to be fair at this ratings blunders still occur plentifully.. titled players usually play against other titled players who are highly unlikely to drop the ball on a winning endgame..
they also play on live stream against opponents they know personally and compete against them OTB.
and even they go into a flag fest when there is no increment and less than 10 seconds on the clock.
Your opponent is entitled to play to checkmate even in a lost position. You may not like it but that doesn't make it poor sportsmanship. What else were you going to do with the time? You had planned to play chess. Maybe the issue here is that you've lost interest in the game because the result seems inevitable. You're bored and want to move on but your opponent is insisting you finish the game Well tough.
Aug 22, 2020
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#15
You have absolutely no obligation to resign in any position. Complaining about someone not resigning is far worse sportsmanship than not resigning.
I used to think that way and you have a point. Now when I'm faced with this I make it a challenge. to win in the most efficient and quickest way possible. I make sure they never benefit from dragging games out.
People who play on like @TheImposter and the OP is exactly why you shouldn't resign. When people get emotionally invested like that they make mistakes which lead to stalemate.
Depending on the time control, I will sometimes drag games out to the very end, even if my position appears hopelessly lost, because you never know what can happen in a blitz game.
Look at this game I played recently. I'm down a queen against a >2000 rated player, but I manage to find a miracle win:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/the-ultimate-swindle
Aug 23, 2020
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#19
I have no problem with my opponent not resigning. Either I mate them or I mess up and prove them right for not resigning! Sure, it's annoying sometimes, but people are allowed to be annoying. I never expect my opponent to resign. Personally I resign very quickly in a lot of situations, but that's because I have no interest in wasting my own time. Some people either don't value their own time or enjoy moving pieces around in a lost position. It's up to them. If the minuscule chance of getting a stalemate in a random online game is what makes their day then all power to them!
No one ever resigns on this website unless you're a titled player. It's so annoying playing against players who are down a queen and a rook or whatever and don't resign. I would rather you disconnect. Far less time being wasted. You don't resign when you're in a completely lost (and I do mean completely) position then you're just saying you don't have any respect for your opponent.
I'll be the first to admit I'm not the best sport. But I don't drag out lost games just to be a pr*ck.
End rant.