crazypiglady wrote:
I'm thinking here of Arena rather than Swiss and short time controls. Sometimes I win a game down to the last second and my standing goes down, others I lose early and ... well it doesn't go up but it goes down less and I get on with a game where I may win.
Is anyone clever enough to put an equation to this?
It's not obviously a tactic but maybe resigning a difficult game could be more useful than wasting tournament time on what will likely be a lose anyway.
The more games you can play the better, in an Arena, so I can see resigning in a game that you think you are going to lose anyway, to get into a new game more quickly.
I'm thinking here of Arena rather than Swiss and short time controls. Sometimes I win a game down to the last second and my standing goes down, others I lose early and ... well it doesn't go up but it goes down less and I get on with a game where I may win.
Is anyone clever enough to put an equation to this?
It's not obviously a tactic but maybe resigning a difficult game could be more useful than wasting tournament time on what will likely be a lose anyway.