Resigning From Games
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What is with the resignation culture among users of chess.com in live games?
kortejamie wrote:
What is with the resignation culture among users of chess.com in live games?
It is not clear if you are talking about people who resign too soon or too late.
lol
Mark658371 wrote:
It might be that they expect they'll loose so the resign
No, I think it's because they expect they'll win, so they resign.
macer75 wrote:
Mark658371 wrote:
It might be that they expect they'll loose so the resign
No, I think it's because they expect they'll win, so they resign.
Or maybe they expect they'll draw, and their mom is watching, so they resign.
Referring to resigning after 1 or 2 key pieces have been taken, and there is still every chance of winning. Just finish the damn game son
I won't
Jun 19, 2017
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Then you're no different from any other netizen. Go into the real world with that attitude and see how far you get.
Ok I think resigning after loosing one piece is pathetic, lots of games are won with less material, but there is also a point in the game where one sides advantage is to bug and obvious that resign it's the most logical option instead of torture I personally enjoy when my opponent resigns I don't take offence
Jun 19, 2017
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Venom4200 wrote:
yes it is true
Ok I think resigning after loosing one piece is pathetic, lots of games are won with less material, but there is also a point in the game where one sides advantage is to bug and obvious that resign it's the most logical option instead of torture I personally enjoy when my opponent resigns I don't take offence
I'm glad there are others who agree!
fp lol jk. I resigned in a position where I was losing by a bishop and a knight, but chess.com said I was winning, so I rematched, and played EVERYTHING the same, and I won
Jun 20, 2017
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Venom4200 wrote:
Ok I think resigning after loosing one piece is pathetic, lots of games are won with less material, but there is also a point in the game where one sides advantage is to bug and obvious that resign it's the most logical option instead of torture I personally enjoy when my opponent resigns I don't take offence
I think it depends on the level you are playing at. If you are 1100>, you should play on until it's something like King and Queen vs King. But if you are like 1600+, you can resign a little earlier to respect to your opponent, say when you're down an exchange and 2 pawns in a simplified position.
I was up a Queen, Rook and 3 pawns. I took my eyes off the board waiting for him to resign. I got mated in an instant. What the @&@?!...his rating is 200 below mine. Sad😔
That just tells me I'm way better than I think and my opponent is a super maximum grandmaster who saw checkmate in 31.
Jun 20, 2017
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ChessStiff wrote:
You should only resign when you lost all hope in winning or drawing.
The only way you could "lose all hope in winning or drawing" if you're checkmated (or lose on time). Otherwise it's a matter of where you draw the line. I could be down any amount of material and I still have the "hope" that my opponent will sacrifice all his remaining pieces and draw with me.
I don't think there's any problem with resigning early. It means that you don't want to play on in a game that's almost certainly going to be lost, and that you want to start a new game and start afresh.
It's far more irritating for a person to play on in a completely lost position, in my opinion, than if they resigned early after blundering a rook or something.
AsianCalamariSQ wrote:
ChessStiff wrote:
You should only resign when you lost all hope in winning or drawing.
The only way you could "lose all hope in winning or drawing" if you're checkmated (or lose on time). Otherwise it's a matter of where you draw the line. I could be down any amount of material and I still have the "hope" that my opponent will sacrifice all his remaining pieces and draw with me.
I don't think there's any problem with resigning early. It means that you don't want to play on in a game that's almost certainly going to be lost, and that you want to start a new game and start afresh.
It's far more irritating for a person to play on in a completely lost position, in my opinion, than if they resigned early after blundering a rook or something.
I agree, but what if you are just completely hopeless and just decide to resign?
