Neither of them is necessarily "wrong", although some may consider them unsportsmanlike
Trolling opponents who refuse to resign
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Promote all your pawns to horseys.
Alternatively, move or capture a pawn every 49th move. In principle there's nothing stopping you from forcing them to play out a 2000 move game.
Jan 5, 2023
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#4
It has nothing to do with writing moves. The main reason is I don't want to risk them whining to the TD out of spite, accusing me of cheating, hatesitting, defacing my board or pieces, etc. Playing online behind the safety of my monitor, I can unleash full keyboard gladiator mode with no consequences.
bro dont do this just checkmate them and go to the next one
Checkmating could be more difficult than doing so.
Jan 5, 2023
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#7
I never resign in blitz games cause my level is low enough to get the occasional stalemate, swindle opportunity, opponent flagging, etc . . . sometimes even people don't know how to do the queen checkmate. Maybe when I dedicate some serious time to improving and get to the point where my opponents don't blunder ez wins then i'll resign in lost positions
Jan 5, 2023
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#8
It's messy. You should finish them off with a clean kill. Funny as hell though. If I see two queens on the board, I'm resigning.
Jan 5, 2023
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#10
Moving your king for 49 consecutive turns just to stall as theirs is in prison is always fun. Their fault for not resigning 
Jan 5, 2023
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#11
I mean, I play on in the position as there is a chance for a lucky stalemate!
Jan 5, 2023
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#12
Apparently, the OP has drawn a game because they were trolling and accidentally stalemated!
Jan 5, 2023
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#13
RemovedUsername333 wrote:
Moving your king for 49 consecutive turns just to stall as theirs is in prison is always fun. Their fault for not resigning
Apparently, you have drawn 13 games due to this! No wonder you like the strat so much...
Jan 5, 2023
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#14
ChessDude009 wrote:
RemovedUsername333 wrote:
Moving your king for 49 consecutive turns just to stall as theirs is in prison is always fun. Their fault for not resigning
Apparently, you have drawn 13 games due to this! No wonder you like the strat so much...
I was wondering how many times I drew due to that haha cheers! And yeah, it's also a gamble of whether I can overcome my progressive myopia and avoid the stalemate
Don't mind the 1/1 though, stalling the game is the reward in of itself.
Jan 5, 2023
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#15
Anybody has the right to play a game to checkmate. Most resign at some level of hopelessness, which saves time, but it’s not obligatory and players who choose to play to the finish should not be humiliated for it. That’s real bad sportsmanship.
MikhailKasparov wrote:
When I'm winning a game of chess, I don't want to checkmate my opponent, I'd prefer they resign. When I enter a lost position I often immediately resign if there isn't an obvious swingle opportunity, and because I hate getting swindled, I do everything I can to make my opponents' lives miserable when they refuse to resign. My gameplan usually goes like this:
- 1. Capturing all their pieces
- 2. Promoting all my pawns to queens
- 3. Checking them aruond the board
- 4. Sacrificing each queen one at a time until I have one remaining.
- 5. Forcing them into the corner to move between h1 and h2
- 6. Taking a king walk all the way around the perimeter of the board
- 7. Forcing their king all the way up the h-file to h8.
- 8. Using up all my time until I have a fraction of a second left before checkmateing them.
So are my opponents wrong for refusing to quit when they're lost, or am I wrong for savagely trolling them? Note - I only do this in online chess, not over the board.
Your opponents are not wrong for refusing to quit.
If they are still playing after #1 or 2 above, it is unlikely that they will feel miserable no matter what you do.
Jan 6, 2023
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#17
MikhailKasparov wrote:
I do everything I can to make my opponents' lives miserable when they refuse to resign.
Very childish.
Jan 6, 2023
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#18
most lower rates players play out to checkmate so they can see the checkmate and learn the pattern.
Jan 6, 2023
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#19
Bihema wrote:
most lower rates players play out to checkmate so they can see the checkmate and learn the pattern.
thats not the way to learn pattern. you are wasting others time. if you want to learn mating patterns there are lessons for them on chess.com
When I'm winning a game of chess, I don't want to checkmate my opponent, I'd prefer they resign. When I enter a lost position I often immediately resign if there isn't an obvious swingle opportunity, and because I hate getting swindled, I do everything I can to make my opponents' lives miserable when they refuse to resign. My gameplan usually goes like this:
So are my opponents wrong for refusing to quit when they're lost, or am I wrong for savagely trolling them? Note - I only do this in online chess, not over the board.