Sporanship and leaving a game

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On starting a new game I was prompted to agree to a list of ”sportmanship” points, which I am all for. However one of the points was “Not to leave a game before it ended”. Now I used to play StarCraft and there one was a sport if leaving early when clearly defeated. The game operates different of course, ties are extremely rare and “killing your opponent off” can be quite tedious. My point is though that I think it is - in chess - perfectly fair to give up when one feels like ... or linger and grasp on to that very last hope.

Finally I would love to see more use the “GLHF” (Good luck, have fun) in beginning of games and “GG” (Good game) at the end of games, a custom widely spread in the StarCraft community.

What are your thoughts?
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popmouth wrote:
On starting a new game I was prompted to agree to a list of ”sportmanship” points, which I am all for. However one of the points was “Not to leave a game before it ended”. Now I used to play StarCraft and there one was a sport if leaving early when clearly defeated. The game operates different of course, ties are extremely rare and “killing your opponent off” can be quite tedious. My point is though that I think it is - in chess - perfectly fair to give up when one feels like ... or linger and grasp on to that very last hope.

Finally I would love to see more use the “GLHF” (Good luck, have fun) in beginning of games and “GG” (Good game) at the end of games, a custom widely spread in the StarCraft community.

What are your thoughts?

There is nothing wrong with resigning. I think the sportsmanship points would agree. They just mean to discourage quitting without resigning- abandoning.

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popmouth wrote:

On starting a new game I was prompted to agree to a list of ”sportmanship” points, which I am all for. However one of the points was “Not to leave a game before it ended”. Now I used to play StarCraft and there one was a sport if leaving early when clearly defeated. The game operates different of course, ties are extremely rare and “killing your opponent off” can be quite tedious. My point is though that I think it is - in chess - perfectly fair to give up when one feels like ... or linger and grasp on to that very last hope.

Finally I would love to see more use the “GLHF” (Good luck, have fun) in beginning of games and “GG” (Good game) at the end of games, a custom widely spread in the StarCraft community.

What are your thoughts?

Absolutely ... resign ... in fact please do resign. It's the people who simply disconnect that should be treated in a most horrible fashion.