I have never resigned in 26 thousand games, I used to be good at getting stalemates and some of my best wins have came from being in impossible positions with absolute no hope but miraculously I checkmate with pawns and a king
i also always do that
What do you think about them? What to do about them? When I am a Queen up and winning position my opponent DO NO RESIGN!
Frustrating...
just in time, my opponent accidentally resigned I'm my last game where I was down so much material, check the game out.
not my last game anymore, I played 2 more games so u guys could do the math
I have never resigned in 26 thousand games, I used to be good at getting stalemates and some of my best wins have came from being in impossible positions with absolute no hope but miraculously I checkmate with pawns and a king
Yeah but you play bullet
In my opinion if your opponent is up a piece, you should resign and give him the respect and show sportsmanship
In my opinion if your opponent is up a piece, you should resign and give him the respect and show sportsmanship
Why can't u just tire ur opponent so the person he plays next will have an easier time.
In my opinion if your opponent is up a piece, you should resign and give him the respect and show sportsmanship
Why can't u just tire ur opponent so the person he plays next will have an easier time.
That would be very clever approach 
In three of my games I gave up pieces just to get a draw by repeatability. Instead of resigning . . .
But if it is impossible to draw I resigned the games . . .
You learn more from the new game you play rather than playing on in a dead lost position hoping for a lottery win.
You learn more from the new game you play rather than playing on in a dead lost position hoping for a lottery win.
Do you have any evidence for that?
Besides, it's impossible to play on in a dead lost position. You can't win if you've already been checkmated. We can play on in a losing position, however. The reason I play on in a losing position has nothing to do with hoping for a lottery win. The only reason is to play the game as it was intended. The only thing to learn from resigning is how to lose. If the opponent has played well enough to put me in a position where I am likely to lose soon, he deserves the credit and satisfaction of accomplishing that goal. I have no interest in taking that away from him. To me that would be rude and inconsiderate.
There is a time and a place for quitting. Giving up a chess game just because you think you might lose probably isn't one of them.
If you don't resign, you just have a low sportsmanship. Unless it's blitz or bullet. But in rapid if you're down 10 minutes and 500 points of material the chance you will get stalemated is very rare.
'Sportsmanship' is just one person trying to enforce their own non-rules on other people.
'Sportsmanship' is just one person trying to enforce their own non-rules on other people.
I agree. Poor sportsmanship in chess would be something like tossing the pieces across the room, kicking the opponent in the shin, etc. I don't see how following the rules of chess is poor sportsmanship. In general, I think quitting is poor sportsmanship because the quitter is attempting to deprive the winner of the goal of chess, which is checkmate.
But I do think there are valid reasons for resigning, like a medical emergency or something comes up that's simply more important than a game of chess.
'Sportsmanship' is just one person trying to enforce their own non-rules on other people.
I agree. Poor sportsmanship in chess would be something like tossing the pieces across the room, kicking the opponent in the shin, etc. I don't see how following the rules of chess is poor sportsmanship. In general, I think quitting is poor sportsmanship because the quitter is attempting to deprive the winner of the goal of chess, which is checkmate.
But I do think there are valid reasons for resigning, like a medical emergency or something comes up that's simply more important than a game of chess.
Super grandmasters would care to disagree.
'Sportsmanship' is just one person trying to enforce their own non-rules on other people.
I agree. Poor sportsmanship in chess would be something like tossing the pieces across the room, kicking the opponent in the shin, etc. I don't see how following the rules of chess is poor sportsmanship. In general, I think quitting is poor sportsmanship because the quitter is attempting to deprive the winner of the goal of chess, which is checkmate.
But I do think there are valid reasons for resigning, like a medical emergency or something comes up that's simply more important than a game of chess.
Super grandmasters would care to disagree.
Maybe. Maybe super grandmasters disagree that a medical emergency is a valid reason for resigning. Maybe they think a stroke or heart attack or a loved one in a crisis is no reason to resign. But the super grandmasters and I, we would just have to agree to disagree.
Super Grandmasters mostly don't want to waste their own time playing losing positions, nevermind the opponent, so they take the short cut option of resigning. So do I mostly when I'm in a position I feel is lost, but I don't put that expectation on my opponent. They can resign or play on as they choose. I don't resign out of sportsmanship, I do it because I'm not interested in wasting my time. If my opponent thinks it's not a waste of their time when they are losing badly that's fine. I'll either checkmate them or I'll screw up, thus showing that they were right not to resign.
I have never resigned in 26 thousand games, I used to be good at getting stalemates and some of my best wins have came from being in impossible positions with absolute no hope but miraculously I checkmate with pawns and a king