Abandoning instead of resigning

Totally get where you’re coming from. When the mate is simple and the opponent just drags it out by pushing pawns, it feels disrespectful and like they’re wasting your time. Playing it out cleanly shows good sportsmanship — stalling only makes the game frustrating instead of enjoyable for both sides.
 
 

I don’t mind so much when they abandoned the game, after all it is only a 60 second wait. I also have found away to get people to resign when they are just letting the full clock time run out after they realize they have lost. I won’t tell you exactly what I say for fear of ruining it. Just think about this. I have found that the people who do this are always are watching the comments. They are hoping to annoy you or to see that you are getting upset that they aren’t moving as away getting back at you for beating them. So just let them know how much you are enjoying the situation! 99% of the time if you do this they will resign or at least disconnect, which cuts you wait time down to a minute.

Personally, I see abandonment as dishonorable.

Consider the well-known rook and king versus king: If you choose to be mated, then at least you are going down with the ship, or perhaps waiting for a stalemate opportunity. Hey, it happens.

If you choose to resign, you show that you are willing to save your opponent the trouble of that last move. Good job for being considerate.

If you choose time-out, then perhaps you are making your opponent pay for the win. Evil, but who doesn't use it every now and again?

Abandonment is just resigning, but making your opponent wait as well. There is no point in this. Choose between time and resigning, otherwise, you are being unsportsmanlike.

well, it just happened again, I got abandoned in a balanced and quite interesting position. Not a big crisis but it wasn't clear enough that I could reasonably claim the win, so I had to resign and take the loss. Not perfect.

My internet connection blipped on me once and told me that I was going to abandon if I didn't move in 15 seconds or something.

ONCE.

The connection came back in time.

This happens often, and like someone mentioned it is just folks that don't want to resign and want you to wait the 3 min or depending on what format however long to actually win, maybe in hopes you will resign, but no game is ever lost, I drew a game yesterday with only my king left against a queen, rook and other pieces my opponent had.

This has become the new normal. At least on that-other-site-that-shall-not-be-named you'll get ever increasing timeouts between games up until a permaban. I've checked some of the "lost-by-abandon" stats of these people and in one particular instance they had 1k+ losses, of which 800+ were abandonments. So no, nothing gets done. These days I call this "the chess.com etiquette" and just play somewhere else.

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Does that-other-site-that-shall-not-be-named start with an "l"?

Also someone abandoned on me today 😔

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It doesn't bother me. They can lose on time or resign. I've had three day waits for some time outs. I move to another game and the notification tells me when it's done, or if the opponent changes his mind and continues to play...then good on them.

I'm fine if it's daily because it doesn't affect me as I can still just play chess but in live games I can't

Agreed, frustrating.

And again. When will anyone give me a "draw" button when my opponent abandons? I honestly don't want to claim a win when I can't see an obvious way to win, but I dislike having to lose when I'm not in an obviously lost position either. It's not much of a big feature-change to ask for!

Another reason public flogging in front of the county courthouse should have never been abandoned. 😉