Punishment

Playing against idiots on live chess who don't resign when whole pieces down without compensation and go on until mate is frustrating me to no end. I reckon that I would be able to spend twice the time on interesting chess if people resigned when they had to. I don't want to start the entire resignation debate again, but there should be a general consensus on that playing until mate in every game by anyone but a beginner is simply rude. Therefore, I propose that an algorithm be devised to see in what percentage of games someone played on while down significant material, and if this percentage is too high they get a warning and if they insist a ban. This makes the game more fun for all of us and does something against griefers who are just out to waste their opponents' time.

We only look at you funny because we think it was you who farted.

Yes, I love pancakes, side order of sausage links please.

but you just can't resist, right?  Another person who wants the rules of chess changed to accomodate his impatience and intolerance.  Yawn.

I sure hope it's the former!  Or at least the second best real stuff from a New England state.  

I'm afraid I'm resigned to using artificial sweetener, I'm diabetic.

Of course it wouldn't work just to count material, but the positions would have to be evaluated with an engine. If it turns out that in over half of his games someone is playing on for dozens of moves in positions that are -5 or worse for him, he's just griefing. Of course I can win these positions, but it is a boring waste of time that has no point to it. In any chess club anyone who keeps doing this would be unwelcome for displaying such rude behaviour, so why not here?

Just about every master would completely disagree.

I'm so glad to see you're still not continuing the old resignation debate.

Grow up.  If you don't like the rules for a game, find a different game.

Yawn.

Nobody is going to invent a new ratings system for this. (Nor should they, manners are not really part of chess skill.) What you do when someone plays on unjustifiably is, you win, you decline a rematch, and block them.

Or you could first go on and on about how they wasted your precious time, and then dream up convoluted and unworkable methods to make sure this never happens in the future.

BTW, right now I'm playing a correspondence game in which my opponent is down to one rook and I have a rook and and four pawns. My opponent takes up to four days between moves. I don't get why anyone would want to stretch losing a game out for weeks, but whatever floats your boat...

Dammit the sky is too blue...oh...Sluggo.

Thanks for the input, but it looks like this game will end in only one of two ways: I checkmate him sometime later this year, or resign out of sheer boredom. Draw or stalemate is not an option.