Maybe he is just trying to loss some points to enter a tournament?
resigning after one move
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possible, but still i feel bad gamesmanship, i gain points not earned
Jun 5, 2012
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Was it a tournament game? When my game is the last one to be finished in my group/the current round and it can`t change anything I am more than happy to offer/accept a draw even after the first move. If my opponent didn`t offer/accept it and I knew he was playing slowly I would resign not to keep the others back.
/ wife objected to his chess playing and gave him ultimatum / - yeah yeah i 've seen this somewhere 
But if on topic - yes, I've seen behavior like this and this is sooo awry that destroys the idea of site. Must to be punished somehow, sure!!
Boletus, I was talking about something different. Some people losses points to be able to enter a tournament. For example a tournament is for players with ratings from 1200 to 1400 and a player is 1500 so he losses 100 points so can play the tournament. Instead of entering a tournament from 1400 to 1600.
This is call "sandbaging" and they do that becouse being a 1500s is more easy to win a tournament mean for average 1300's instead of winning a tournament where he is the average player.
What you say i don't understand.
In a tournament I maybe take a draw or resign only if I know I am moving to the next round, otherways all the other players on the world will have to wait until I finish my game. Now well, no playing the best I can in a tournament, and drawing or losing games just to move forward is another dirty trick.
In this case I am supouse to be fresh for the next game while all the other people who play honestly hard maybe are exausted. In the other hand, a person should consider a tournament is a comitment of several games and should be thinking how to play the tournament instead of killing himself in each single game.
Jun 5, 2012
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I've seen something similar to this as well, in the thrid round of tournament with 6 players left.
About 12 moves into the first I found a nice fork... he was to lose a knight or a rook. He resigned that game and the second game without a move played.
This was in group of 2 tournament, so he just had to win one game to split and advance. My only guess was after those 12 moves he decided he could not beat me (which is insane because I'm not that good) or he wanted to lower his ranking for whatever reason.
I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about it.
just to add this wasnt a tournament game i made a challenge and first move he replied with his move then resigned, he has sent message saying he thought he wasd playing a tournament game ? im confused . com but if a game started see it through to the bitter end dont think anything can be done but hopefully is food for thought
interesting comments on tournament games, personally i would rather lose a tournament or game that was hard fought than win on dubious methods and if you do have wife or girlfriend giving ultimatums/ sack em
maybe he wanted to practice a different opening?
I don't see what's the big deal if your opponent resigns, you increase your rating and you can start another match immediately.
maybe not big deal wish all my opponents would resign after one move never play a game and have a grade of 2000+ excellent ha
Being kicked off chess.com for resigning whether the first move or first few moves is a bit rough. If anything could be done it would be much more fair for the system to keep statistics on a players actions and if they are found to be resigning very early in consecutive games then perhaps some penalty could occur. But to be booted from chess.com for the first offense seems a little too harsh. I'm sure there are a myriad of legitimate reasons why one might have resigned after the first move -- its only a problem if this same player does this often and only then should something be done about it.
it's hard to believe that this is an issue...it's like saying, hey that person did something bad because he scatched his head. come on
Jun 5, 2012
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htdavidht wrote:
Boletus, I was talking about something different. Some people losses points to be able to enter a tournament. For example a tournament is for players with ratings from 1200 to 1400 and a player is 1500 so he losses 100 points so can play the tournament. Instead of entering a tournament from 1400 to 1600.
This is call "sandbaging" and they do that becouse being a 1500s is more easy to win a tournament mean for average 1300's instead of winning a tournament where he is the average player.
What you say i don't understand.
In a tournament I maybe take a draw or resign only if I know I am moving to the next round, otherways all the other players on the world will have to wait until I finish my game. Now well, no playing the best I can in a tournament, and drawing or losing games just to move forward is another dirty trick.
In this case I am supouse to be fresh for the next game while all the other people who play honestly hard maybe are exausted. In the other hand, a person should consider a tournament is a comitment of several games and should be thinking how to play the tournament instead of killing himself in each single game.
Thanks for your reply. I know what sandbaging is and I did the opposite not long ago. I entered a 2001-2200 tournament and withdrew from another one then for I was fed up with players ignoring its rules. 
And I lost about 100 rating points. 
To explain what I meant. Look at this tournament. There was a single game to be finished in my group #10. My opponent offered a draw on move 2 and I accepted for the game would change nothing. If it had been the last game in the first round and my opponent hadn`t wanted to accept/hadn`t offered a draw I would have likely resigned not to keep the others back.
Jun 5, 2012
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#15
Consider it your gain and his loss. If he keeps up, the Fair Play Policy will get to him.
Jun 5, 2012
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ficsher007 wrote:
just to add this wasnt a tournament game i made a challenge and first move he replied with his move then resigned, he has sent message saying he thought he wasd playing a tournament game ? im confused . com but if a game started see it through to the bitter end dont think anything can be done but hopefully is food for thought
OK. He must have had his reasons but he could have aborted the game instead of resigning, could he not? There is maybe something about it in FAQs: Fixing game results by playing with multiple accounts or losing intentionally is also considered cheating but if I were in your shoes I wouldn`t care at all. 
joeydvivre wrote:
Resigning a game after 1 move is not "losing intentionally" that the Fair Play policy is about. It's because something else happened in his life and he had to stop playing chess. It's the same as a forfeit loss in a tournament and everyone who has played enough tournaments has done that. Would you rather he just let his clock expire?
Not only should this person not be booted from chess.com - there isn't even a hint that he did anything wrong. Sorry that chess can't always be your first priority in life. Sometimes the kid falls out of the crib, or the toilet overflows, or the phone rings and it is Johnny's sixth grade teacher, or the hamster dies and Gracie is beside herself, or the process server is at the front door, or they just changed the margin requirements on platinum and your employer calls, or [blah, blah]
Honestly, if you think that someone should be booted from chess.com because they resigned after 1 move, you either aren't thinking or have so little life experience that you have no material to think about.
ficsher007 wrote:
joeydvivre wrote:
Resigning a game after 1 move is not "losing intentionally" that the Fair Play policy is about. It's because something else happened in his life and he had to stop playing chess. It's the same as a forfeit loss in a tournament and everyone who has played enough tournaments has done that. Would you rather he just let his clock expire?
Not only should this person not be booted from chess.com - there isn't even a hint that he did anything wrong. Sorry that chess can't always be your first priority in life. Sometimes the kid falls out of the crib, or the toilet overflows, or the phone rings and it is Johnny's sixth grade teacher, or the hamster dies and Gracie is beside herself, or the process server is at the front door, or they just changed the margin requirements on platinum and your employer calls, or [blah, blah]
Honestly, if you think that someone should be booted from chess.com because they resigned after 1 move, you either aren't thinking or have so little life experience that you have no material to think about.
Sometimes you accept a rematch too after you had already requested a new game. You are looking at the new game playing black, hit accept rematch, then your opponent starts the game. Now you have two games going.
shuold players be kicked off chess.com for resigning after one move, i say yes , this happened to me. All set for game against strong player, made my move he replied and resigned/ possible reasons for this, my reputation has gone before me and he got scared/ pressed wrong button/ cat jumped on comp pressing wrong button/ wife objected to his chess playing and gave him ultimatum / i leave it open for any more thoughts and veiws from decent chess players around the world.