When To Resign

I agree. Play with honor, and be allowed to die with honor.

Don't be a bully. Allow your enemy the decency to to be check-mated or stale-mated. They gave you the honor of a game. If they do not want to resign, that is their choice. You have to prove that you can end it.

Now if someone offers to resign, that is another matter altogether.

If someone offers to resign, you can't decline them the offer, you don't have a choice!

That depends on how a resignation is offered.

I was playin boston12 in a game where he had me beat, but it would have been a long drawn out game by continuing. I did not want to just resign, after he had worked so hard to win, without giving him the choice. I asked him if I could resign, or if he would rather finish the game out. It was the least I could do, as he is a very honorable player.

Let's say this game has a 7 day per move time control. My opponent is taking the full 7 days to make each move, and continues doing so from this position. The game could take nearly 2 months to finish.

It's pretty clear that in this case my opponent is being an idiot.

Now imagine that this is the last game of a tournament, and the other people enrolled in the tournament are enrolled in the maximum number of tournaments allowed, and have to wait 50 days before they can enroll in another tournament because some moron is refusing to resign.

Most of the time, when I tell someone "Do you really want to continue this, it's absolutely pointless?" they'll be respectful and stop wasting their and my time and resign.

Let me be clear: I don't expect people to resign a position where there's a very small chance of a stalemate or draw. I expect people to resign when they are obviously going to lose. If I'm up two rooks, I'm not going to screw up so badly that I'm going to give both of them away.

Good point. Tournaments should have game 'move' time limits. 7 days to make a move should not even be an option in tournaments. 2 days max.