This is why I never resign unless I have to leave a game

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Resigning, by definition loses you the game. Much better to play it out and try to get a favourable result, then analyse the game later to see where I went wrong. 

But the best thing about it is when an opponent plays like this to try to prove a point, when all I'm doing is making the best move possible. 

Fewer things are as satisfying as a stalemate Iike this. 

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Bat34969 wrote:
I usually resign whenever I am near being checkmated.

 

That assumes your opponent is able to secure the checkmate. As you can see in my game, even someone above 1600 can fail to secure a very easy checkmate. 

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That must have been sweet satisfaction, after a worst case scenario, worst I've ever seen! I would have been cheering and fist pumping if that was me haha

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Swampy-Gum wrote:

That must have been sweet satisfaction, after a worst case scenario, worst I've ever seen! I would have been cheering and fist pumping if that was me haha

 

It was glorious, you can sense the arrogance in those final few moves of my opponent. Wish I could have seen their face when they slipped up haha. 

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I usually resign too, might change my outlook now!!

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I always love to see that to happen happy.png stacked all queens up there to avoid stalemate and still failed to do so.. life lesson haha

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Hubris on a scale I have never witnessed before!

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TheSteelman wrote:

I usually resign too, might change my outlook now!!

 

This is a fairly regular occurrence. Not always as lopsided as this, but you'd be surprised how many players will refuse to mate you when you have just a king. 

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gdzen wrote:

I always love to see that to happen  stacked all queens up there to avoid stalemate and still failed to do so.. life lesson haha

 

As soon as he stopped pursuing checkmate my decision to play on was justified. The fat he got cocky and messed up is just a happy bonus.

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Swampy-Gum wrote:

Hubris on a scale I have never witnessed before!

 

It's brilliant. 

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It was very satisfying.

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@rytsar25507 this is what I'm talking about. 

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So many people resigne bc they lost there queen and it’s so annoying
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I'm gonna be honest, I would have resigned after I dropped the second piece and moved on. If I somehow got stalemated like that it would have been extremely satisfying, but usually in bullet I don't have time to feel annoyed and simply try to checkmate them (it hurts my index finger to play bullet on a trackpad).

However, I do have to point out that although you secured a favorable result in this game, it's very unlikely it will ever occur, and IMO someone who plays like this will have accumulated enough time playing in dead positions to have played many other games.

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Somehow I'm reminded of the Tortoise and the Hare ...

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good, no game can be won by resination

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@snudoo the thing is though, had I resigned, it never would happen. It would have a zero percent chance. That chance itself only exists due to people feeling arrogant enough to be offended by me not resigning and hence playing sub optimal moves.

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There are many reasons to resign a position--to hope that your opponent will make horrible blunders if you play on is not a good reason.  It only hurts your playing strength. It is not worth hurting your playing strength just because you hope 

your opponent will play stupidly. 

[Good players know when to resign]

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@ponz111 if you play the game to win, resigning guarantees that won't happen. And remember, I'm only ever in a horrible position because I've blundered, so it is only fair for me to assume my opponent will blunder also, as he did in the op.

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TheCalculatorKid wrote:

@snudoo the thing is though, had I resigned, it never would happen. It would have a zero percent chance. That chance itself only exists due to people feeling arrogant enough to be offended by me not resigning and hence playing sub optimal moves.

Very true, but personally I would have resigned so I could see where I went wrong, and just play another game. It was bullet, right? I can just get the points back if I really was at XXX playing level.