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Diet_Coke
Aug 22, 2009
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#21

Fine, if you don't want to resign I'll take all your pieces, then I'll promote all my remaining pawns.   Then finally I may put you out of your misery.

Oh and btw, I'd have boxed your king quite securely so all you can do is move a1 to b1, back to a1, then to b1 for as long as I can be bothered to torment you.

Doesn't that sound fun?

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Dexter_Morgan
Aug 22, 2009
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#22
Loomis wrote:

The analogy with a sport like tennis is flawed. In each point of a tennis match I can play up to my full ability no matter how many points I have lost previously. But this is not so in chess. When we are significantly behind in material in chess it's like playing tennis with no racket. If you played a tennis match where a 5-0 lead in a set meant you play the next game with no racket, surely you'd resign that set.

Good analogy, but something tells me some of the guys in this thread would play on without a racket...

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omnipaul
Aug 22, 2009
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#23
ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:

lithium11: chess is only similar if you are hoping that your opponent has an aneurism or something. There is luck in some other games/sports that just isn't there in chess - this is why people often resign. A better analogy is a race, where it's you against the other guy - and he is 1 foot from the finish line. You are about 100m back. In that case, you only win if he has a heart attack or something.

Even then, if the other guy falls forward over the finish line before you get there..........

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raghu_hoipl
Oct 7, 2009
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#24

Hear is one of the games, I played against a high rated player. I was down by 3 pawns, but yet to manage a draw. I fought till da end. some time too many materials of opponent gives u good advantage. Pls see his comments also. He has done a good analysis of our game...

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Diet_Coke
Oct 7, 2009
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#25

Resign is also a move.

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aansel
Oct 7, 2009
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#26

In regard to raghu's game--Black either is a horrible endgame player or just played without thinking assuming it was a won game. Why he delayed ...e2 is beyond me.

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JG27Pyth
Oct 7, 2009
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#27
raghu_hoipl wrote:

Hear is one of the games, I played against a high rated player. I was down by 3 pawns, but yet to manage a draw. I fought till da end. some time too many materials of opponent gives u good advantage. Pls see his comments also. He has done a good analysis of our game...

Painful to watch Black botch that ending. He had a won game and stopped thinking.

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Blitz55
Oct 7, 2009
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#28

Not a problem for me. I don't see the end game as well which is what I am working on. So I play till I am checkmated.

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Raweyes
Oct 7, 2009
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#29
Loomis wrote:

The analogy with a sport like tennis is flawed. In each point of a tennis match I can play up to my full ability no matter how many points I have lost previously. But this is not so in chess. When we are significantly behind in material in chess it's like playing tennis with no racket. If you played a tennis match where a 5-0 lead in a set meant you play the next game with no racket, surely you'd resign that set.

There is no better way to ultimately bury the resignation dilemma than this, nuff said.

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eddiewsox
Oct 7, 2009
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#30

I play the first move, and after that whether I resign or not depends on how the game goes.

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Yuvaraj
Aug 3, 2012
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#31

all of you who have posted their views, thank you !

also i would like to say that, we can learn from our oppenent how to play the end games without making an error ! sometimes in the games, some people makes an error and so they ll have to lose or draw ! it happens ! and i'm talking about the learners especially, not the IM or GM !