Why don't people resign?

I was playing a game in which I had a rook and a king (obviously) vs. a king.. My opponent clearly saw that I will checkmate him, but he kept on dragging the game by making a move every two days. I don't understand why would someone do that. Maybe he thinks I'll run out of time or something but in my opinion, it's jus disrespectful. And if I ask him to resign because it's a waste of time, he says that I'm being a jerk and continues with prolonging the agony.. 

it's a player's right not to, if they don't want to.  stalemates happen!

I consider resignation an honorable decision, so I don't generally hesitate to if it becomes obvious I'll lose. But, some people are sore losers, it happens. Checkmate their stubborn asses and move on.

let's put a stop to this before it gets out of hand

I'm suprised this has never been brought up before.  Thoughts?  Solutions?  C'mon people, let's put our heads together and sort this mess out.

You resign if you want to; you resign when to play gives you agony and wastes your time. If you personally don't feel you're wasting your time by playing out a certain position, then don't resign.

It always confuses me though: If the position is so easy to win, why would the lack of resignation bother you? If you don't even have to think, then you can make your obvious moves in seconds. The only problem that can come in is if a person is deliberately running out all of their time simply because they can; then that's just unethical.

Elubas, that's what I was thinking about.. Someone does exactly that - when they begin to lose, they stall..

Thanks for the feedback.. Those who are somehow offended by this topic don't need to comment at all, I have no fun reading your stupid comments.

100%.

This is online chess (as opposed to live chess).  Play multiple games.

Although if one is particularly vengeful, they might drop their rating by purposefully losing a bunch of othre games in the time that your game lasts, so that you don't get as many rating points.  I don't think that anybody would do that, but there are some odd people in this world.

Corpsporc, that actually happend to me once..  I do play up to 20 games in online chess, but I'm trying to cut it down 'cos it's easyer to concentrate on let's say, 5 games.. Better shots of winning.

Have to agree that a player has the right to fight for a stalemate.  However, on some level you should be able to gauge the ability of your opponent enough to know whether or not that's a realistic possibiilty.  

Also agree with the guy from Mizzou.  If you don't like it finish him off with a checkmate. 

Yes, that's true.. I'm not much of a chess player, I play mostly for fun but I know enough so I don't turn winning position into a stalemate.

EVEN A PERFECTLY PLAYED FORCED CHECKMATE: (K+R vs K) CAN STILL BE DRAGGED ON FOR MONTHS. IT IS NOT IN THE CONTROL OF THE WINNER, EVEN IN MIZZOU.

Ok you have over whelming odds over your opponent, The study here is to see how few moves you have to make to check mate. If every one re-signed after they get one piece down, then you will never get end game play which is very important!

That's particularly true, I think, in on line chess where players have multiple games going.  I seem to make more bad blunders for that reason, anyway.  When someone plays it out against me on line, I'm not offended at all.  It does seem it's a little different  over the board.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/to-resign-or-not-to-resign

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/do-you-know-when-to-resign

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/resigning-attitudes---lets-vote

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-etiquette-of-resigning

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/resign-resign-resign-but-when

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/opponents-refusing-to-resign

why won't this forum topic resign? ^just the tip of the iceberg.

Seriously people F*CK off with this lame thread

Why let such players get you down and cause you to waste energy that could be better spent playing all your other games?  Chess reflects life, and we all know that in life, there are those who can and do irritate us to the point of distraction.  But we learn as we go on in life that the best thing is simply to ignore or minimize the negative effects of such interaction.  Why not simply play on and concentrate on the games we play and enjoy. 

stalemates and death are known to happen