It's a sport. ;)
Folks that never resign...
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@kay How about forced to listen to an audio book of Ben Stein reading all four twilight books from beginning to end.
Play on 
GnrfFrtzl wrote:
uwinagain írta:
Oh boo bloody hoo... cant stand whiners!
If your that good, Win!
I don't think it's about whining, although OP presents his case in an arrogant way; it's about making pointless moves and walking into an even worse position deliberately. What's the point of it?
I never walk into a worse position deliberately.. Why would I do that?
No, it happens because I haven't played thousands of games so consequently, I will always rely on the better player to make a clean decisive kill! If they can't, I will play on!
I wouldn't do any trickery as far as time is concerned in a game, I have enough conscience to know if I am being a bad sport myself, and it doesn't sit right with me.. so I do'nt!
The object of the game is to either checkmate, draw, or win! If your opponent is too lazy to battle, then they should resign! 
In other word's..
Resigning is not really an option if you are trying to understand the game a little better.. It's only by losing you learn how not to lose.
I hope that explains something anyway.
My thoughts exactly, funny enough.
Dec 9, 2014
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#28
I've had a game where the guy/girl was two moves from checkmate...he/she abandoned the board...
You can decide to let that piss you off...or you can just say to yourself...that is annoying and move on to other games...
Don't waste you life force on such things...people will vampirize your life force only if you let them.
GnrfFrtzl wrote:
In bulletz, it's always happening, in blitz, it is forgivable, but when my opponents do this in correspondence, it drives me up the f**** wall. Seriously, if you do this in correspondence, you seriously breaking manners; hoping for a stalemate with 30 sec on each players' clock is fine (although still cheap), doing the same with days of thinking is just disrespectful.
Playing as the rules say, instead of by the rules that your opponent wishes they were, is disrespectful. Right...
I guess Carlsen is only better than me if he's disrespectful enough to not resign to me on move 1, because I wish the rules were such that everyone had to resign to me on move 1.
"Are there some people having fun making another 10 useless moves before getting cornered and eventually getting mated? Are there people having fun doing that exact ten moves that they've seen already in their minds?"
If there were such people, I wouldn't have a problem with them. Liking things is ok. All you can say is that you yourself might not enjoy that. You can't use your lack of enjoyment to morally obligate people to play as if the rules conformed to what you wanted them to be (which might be forcing a person to resign at a certain point for example). Because your lack of enjoyment does not give your opinion any special status.
Dec 9, 2014
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#31
i currently have one game stuck on the following position:
Forced mate-in-one.
My opponent doesn't want to resign.
To be fair, is 3 days/move, and he has only been gone a couple hours. But still, most folks would resign, don't you think?
I might just play ...Ka2 personally. I don't have a lot to lose by seeing if something weird happens.
I would have resigned ages ago...
Now all makes sense!
Well said Elubas, (without sounding like a sychophant)!
I would have never thought that would be your opinion.. pleasantly shocked! 
I mean sure, a person could checkmate me with his extra queen, but I find it rather brutal and disrespectful. A true gentleman would resign to me, and if he doesn't, I'll block him.
Dec 9, 2014
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#37
What would be the reason for a person in that position not to resign?
1. Too dumb not to see that they will be checkmated in one move?...
2. They are doing it to piss you off...
3. ..... (welcome anyone to fill in the reasons)
LOL
I think 1 and 3, whatever 3 might be for that particular person, are ok. Maybe they like the peace of mind of knowing for sure. That peace of mind of theirs is just as legitimate as your feeling that you want the game over right away, no matter how strong that feeling of yours is.
At the end, it doesn't matter.
I don't resign very often but will never stall a game when I'm losing, I don't mind when other players wont resign, but I can't stand the player that stall's the game making one move every 2 to 7 days (depending on the game) when there is no hope of winning, and even worse is the player that lets the clock run out instead of resigning. that's just poor sportsmanship and those players should be pummeled.