Resigning is a matter of personal taste, mood etc
Resigning vs Playing it out
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Honestly, I don't see the point in playing out games that can't, at the very least, be drawn. It's just not worth the time or energy.
@Ploughboy_95 Wrong, sometimes the opponent may blunder, so it is better to play it out
Its better to play it out bcs the opponent might blunder or stalemate and u might get a chance to comeback
Winning the won game can be incredibly difficult. If your opponent reacts that way, you have a psychological advantage and can play on to further tilt them into blundering. That being said, there are also people who drag a totally lost game out 30 more minutes then abandon game just as their timer runs out, with the intent being to waste everyone's time as revenge for them feeling dumb. So you can understand both sides, but people select the time control and play within the rules, so if you want to play on they will just have to put up with it, don't be peer-pressured into resigning.
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It's in the spirit of the times to no longer finish games. You have to consume as much as possible in less time than it takes to write it. It is the symbol of our society where patience and obstinacy have been replaced by the bulimia of tasting everything before throwing it away. In the real world, chess still escapes this “resign” frenzy. Perhaps this is the path you should finally turn to to rediscover the joys of pursuing your ideas on a chessboard.
Flynn347 wrote:
Why you should resign, even in bullet:
Are you going to put this game in every thread about resignation?
MrChatty wrote:
Flynn347 wrote:
Why you should resign, even in bullet:
Are you going to put this game in every thread about resignation?
Yes
Why have you been waiting for 2 months?
Flynn347 wrote:
Why you should resign, even in bullet:
This is the same thing that the guy in the original post did to me. It was, to put it politely, an incredibly unsportsmanlike thing to do then, and you didn't do it any better.
The fact that you decided to post it makes you genuinely one of the rudest people I have ever come across. What made you decide to waste a minute of your life on nothing?
Also, you know you should have instantly resigned when you blundered your knight on turn four. Why did you waste that guy's time like that?
Lime-is-a-crime wrote:
Flynn347 wrote:
Why you should resign, even in bullet:
This is the same thing that the guy in the original post did to me. It was, to put it politely, an incredibly unsportsmanlike thing to do then, and you didn't do it any better.
The fact that you decided to post it makes you genuinely one of the rudest people I have ever come across. What made you decide to waste a minute of your life on nothing?
Also, you know you should have instantly resigned when you blundered your knight on turn four. Why did you waste that guy's time like that?
I could already tell from that comment, that you have a 3-digit Elo
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I generally don't if I'm completely screwed, sometimes I will just because and sometimes I will if I've seen something in their patterns that gives me hope they might stalemate. It's your preference in the end, don't let others dictate you.
Flynn347 wrote:
Lime-is-a-crime wrote:
Flynn347 wrote:
Why you should resign, even in bullet:
This is the same thing that the guy in the original post did to me. It was, to put it politely, an incredibly unsportsmanlike thing to do then, and you didn't do it any better.
The fact that you decided to post it makes you genuinely one of the rudest people I have ever come across. What made you decide to waste a minute of your life on nothing?
Also, you know you should have instantly resigned when you blundered your knight on turn four. Why did you waste that guy's time like that?
I could already tell from that comment, that you have a 3-digit Elo
Oh, wow. It must be very hard to have typed that very long and persuasive argument.
I will stop having opinions about a game I've played more than 2000 games of now. Sigh, I can't wait until I gain 29 Elo points and can have an opinion on chess.
I don't really care one way or another if my opponent plays on to the bitter end. But I won't play out a lost position myself. There's no joy for me in winning a lost game because my opponent blunders. Not on the anonymous Internet, anyways, where games are a dime a dozen.
"It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game." --- Grantland Rice
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I just played a game with someone who is very against playing chess games out. They were extremely rude about it, but I wanted to get some more perspective on resigning vs playing it out.
I personally really like to play through to mate. To me, it's an important part of the game that is fun to think through on both ends.
My opponent, from what I understand, thinks that it is disrespectful not to resign. To them, it's like you're saying that you think they could mess up and stalemate.
Am I in the minority when it comes to liking to play a definitive game out?