why do people stall when they are losing?

Just joking:P

People tend to stall when theyre losing in order to try and find ways to turn the odds around on their opponent, the more pieces a player loses, the further they travel into panic mode.

Can't understand all the fuss over one game. I am playing about 30 online games right now. If someone was stalling in one of them...I wouldnt even know.

14 days per move x average game length 50 moves (100 ply) = 4 years

I.e. you can fit in about 20 games in your life

This should tell you the cause:-

http://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-strategie

@owltuna

I dont believe its a win for me im 100%sure its a win for me. No more counters possible.

And why should i accept a draw and let that..... feel he was the one winning.

Besides a draw would make me lose 100+ points and i wont be able to join a tourney.

Close this stupid page! Attention seeker!

@owltuna

I did not mean to argue with you but what i said was the facts

@elizabeth

I wish i could.;)

Just be careful and be patient..Patience is what you need..

I still stick to my opinion that you don't have a sure win yet....

I remember once had a game wherein my opponent was up a rook and was about to checkmate me , following a line of checking my king until my goodness he made the only move which will make me win, the rook guarding his king taking my second rook, not noticing my queen make an entrance beside his unsuspecting king to say Hello, Good night, and Good riddance, Your Majesty...

Anything can still happen, especially if your opponent still has checkmate material,

Thats true too. But u missed a point. Anything can happen as long as my opponent plays.;

Correct! Another thing, games here are also a matter of who controls the tempo between both of you

Your opponent probably saw that you were getting into too good of a rhythm in the game with a speed-up, blitz style of playing..So he adjusts and decides to change the tempo and flow of the game into a slow-down, drag-it-out-crawl hoping to break some of your good rhythm and momentum into his favor

I also do that sometimes,like if my opponent is having a good rhythm in a slow, drag-it-out style, I speed up the games and move an hour after he moves, and vice-versa...

I suggest you concentrate on the game and follow ms bakers advice..lol

this guy just has six hrs remaining.

I admit to slowing down when I'm losing. It's harder to find the enthusiasm to examine the position; it's harder to put in the effort when I'm probably going to lose anyway. It's not especially logical: I'll likely learn more from a game I lose than a game I win, but (at the moment) that seems to be the way it is.

I won't go on vacation to avoid losing and have (thus far, touch wood) never had a timeout.

When on the "winning" side and I see someone going slowly, I do one of two things:

1. If I can see a forced win, I enter the conditional moves and forget about the game

2. If I can't see a forced win, I make some notes about what I'm thinking of doing (unless it's really obvious, like "push some pawns ... somehow) and wait until the game comes up for my turn.

People are people. I just had two games time out after my opponent used up all his or her vacation time; personally, didn't really care (one and two move games: count as aborts) but if they'd held the whole tournament up I'd have been irritated. As there were still other games being played in the round, no harm was done: I'd have been waiting anyway just as I am now that my group has finished.

I polled some of the higher ranking opponents I've defeated and strangely enough, most of them offered the same reason:

Denial. Plain and simple. They struggle coming to grips with the reality they have just been defeated. They figure if they stall it a bit, then technically, if only for those few minutes, they are not yet officially the loser. 

As long as there is something to learn from the game, don't resign. 

But also, play at an appropriate pace. That pace is determined not by the time control, but the pace you've been playing the game. It's natural to slow down in bad positions, but do not try to win a correspondence game that has been lost on the board by using the calendar as a weapon. 

If you have reached a position that is completely hopeless, and both you and your opponent clearly know the fastest way to win, it's time to resign. You have nothing left to learn, except whether your opponent may expire before the game does.

thnx guys for all your help. finally got over.

i had a guy who did this to me, then he told me he didnt want to resign 'cos he wanted to stay above 1700 (he was just above at the time)

Worked out worse for him though as I was losing 3 or 4 games against stronger opponents and I resigned them all before I ended up beating him.  Had he resigned when he should have, he wouldn't have lost so many points.

I'm afraid some people care too much about rankings, no one likes losing sure but come on, be adult about it, you can't win them all right?

Good luck.

Well I was just playing a 5 day game and I was crushing the guy. Why don't people just resign? it would make my life so much easier (Chess life)

They've lost that lovin feeling.