I always resign if I must suddenly leave.
Why do people resign in a completely winning position?
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Why not try to offer a draw first?
Last time my wife rang me. Logically I did fall into surrender mode.
Ok, mystery solved, thanks :)
Now seriously, this is something about you never can be sure, since there are people for everything. I guess some of them probably would explain if you ask. I think I should offer a draw if I must leave and I'm clearly winning, but if I'm not wrong this had happened only once and I didn't think about it. It's online chess after all.
Jul 4, 2015
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Once in a game I made a serious blunder. There was no chance my opponent wouldn't see it, so I posted to my opponent "oh, that was stupid!--and I think I was better before..." And he resigned! I asked him why, and he said he didn't want to win like that. I told him that was taking it a bit far, after all I am the one who made the stupid blunder, but he said don't worry about it, it's just a game anyway. So then, in a way, I felt like a pouty baby--worse than if he just beat me.
To keep their rating down.
I am not trying to speak for this person who resigned in an obvious winning position but I do know from my brief experience playing at this site all types of UN- explainable things do happen. I was playing a game and I was in an obvious winning position and the server aborted my game and deducted points for my " loss" .I am still trying to find out why? So just as in life unfair things happen to any and all of us at some point in time.
Was being chased by anal-probing aliens?
Jan 2, 2016
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I've pressed the resign button by accident when I wanted to offer a draw...
Oh wow once I played a bullet player, and I missclicked, it would’ve been mate, but I missed, he was nice enough to resign.
Maybe he had to go poopy. It is not worth soiling your britches just to beat someone on chess.com. Maybe a woman came over and put her tongue in his ear, and he lost the ability to move his pieces.
I never resign even though I'm going to lose, but one time I really had to go, so I had to resign. My guess is that they had a strategy, but it didn't work. I've seen people resigning even though they weren't losing as well, but since I played 3 minute the moves had to be fairly quick and sometimes I make my moves really fast, maybe they wanted to make moves quick as well, but blundered too much.
Sep 16, 2020
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JubilationTCornpone wrote:
Once in a game I made a serious blunder. There was no chance my opponent wouldn't see it, so I posted to my opponent "oh, that was stupid!--and I think I was better before..." And he resigned! I asked him why, and he said he didn't want to win like that. I told him that was taking it a bit far, after all I am the one who made the stupid blunder, but he said don't worry about it, it's just a game anyway. So then, in a way, I felt like a pouty baby--worse than if he just beat me.
Wow, never met such a nice person... And he/she doesn't even know you?
Sep 17, 2020
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#19
I have known people that resign in winning positions because they needed to physically relieve themselves.
This one really puzzles me, and I wonder if anyone can solve this mystery for me.
I've seen it happen before when I was watching other players playing, but now it happened to me.
Take a look at this game:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=1204993092
I got totally owned and kept on playing just for the faintest chance he'll make some huge blunder and I can draw, but then - all of a sudden - he resigns!
The only "logical" explanations I can think of are:
1. He needs to go. But why not try to offer a draw or something? I surely would have accepted that.
2. He thinks he's losing for some reason. It doesn't add up, as a player that plays that well - surely knows how a totally won position looks like :)
What do you think?