You Should Be Forced to Resign

Agreed. First move advantage should suffice

Do I need to post games I have won as black to prove you wrong?

And then get all huffy and puffy and self righteous?

but you obviously cheated and exploited loopholes by not immediately resigning!

Post #429 presents a rare moment of honor for a man characterized by the opposite. 

Actually, checking up on it, I have never won as black. I think I see Eric Fleet's point now.

True - Kissinger acutally admitting he was at a given place witnessing something.

OP reminds me of someone named "Daeth"...

so, we have a consensus. Expanding on peter's rule about resigning in what he considers to be a losing situation, we have proven that white should win every game by resignation. Chess is now solved!!!

Really? I was pretty young at the time and since then I can't pretend I've ever really dug beyond a basic understanding of the situation but my impression is that he had no better alternative. If Nixon had hung on he would have been impeached, tried, and tossed out of office and might well have faced criminal prosecution as well -- he had become a national disgrace -- and his calling the watergate scandal "our long national nightmare" was absolutely accurate. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an example of Nixon acting on honor, ever. He was a capable executive, policy-maker, thinker, politician, and leader and did many things that were intelligent farsighted and good for the country. He wasn't a bad president by many objective measures. But I'm unaware of anything he ever did because it was the honorable thing to do... if it was honorable, that was happenstance, not a cause, that's my impression at least.  

It's time to get the snowball rolling.

It's quite clear that this rule will do nothing but good for the game of Chess, as evidenced by the last 23 pages of comments. It is unforseeably satisfying seeing so much positive feedback in so little time.

I never really considered many of the implications and effects my rule would have on Chess, I only intended the rule to disallow time-wasting and "prickish" play by sore losers. Needless to say, I could not have come up with a better rule or suggestion. This rule will fix much more about the game than I could have ever hoped for, and I can see many of you are  as excited as I am for the better future we can bring to this otherwise very original, competitive, and fun game.

I firmly believe that we can completely purge the game of all this silly, desperate, loopholey play, once and for all. We can fix this broken game if we act as a dedicated and determined community, as we have been doing so far in this thread.

I think it's quite clear what the posters in this thread think -- what we need is the attention of FIDE officials, from what I hear. Thank you for your support.

1. This is hardly support you're receiving, more like mockery.  As for attention of FIDE officials, you wont get any attention because your proposal is stupid.

I thought this was a joke thread...

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.  Time limits are time limits for a reason.  If you don't want to play a long game then don't. It's that simple!

is it, he just taken over monster_with_no_name's place. Must be the time of the year to do it. The staff seem to be having a ball here.

Just plain no to this nonsense.

It's my resignation party.

Ill resign when I want to.

I'll resign  when I want to.

@Petermh5, do you think this rule, when implemented, can be applied retrospectively? The reason that I ask is that in many chess books and even on the Chess Mentor here we have to put up with that insufferable game by Morphy against consulting opponents (Count Isouard & Duke of Brunswick) when he sacs piece after piece for a lead in developement, eventually forcing checkmate with his few remaining pieces.

In these financially difficult times I think Morphy's opponents in that game set the better example, prudently hanging onto their pieces, keeping them safely on their original squares for a rainy day. Morphy, on the other hand, develops his pieces only to throw them away, his play is the chess equivalent of the borrow-and-spend metality that has brought the current financial crisis upon the world.