So I've been playing in number of Hardcore tournaments lately at 0/21 time control. I notice that in the opening days of the tournament a bunch of people will resign games to each other after 1 or 2 moves. Why is that?

Originally posted by King Mob
So I've been playing in number of Hardcore tournaments lately at 0/21 time control. I notice that in the opening days of the tournament a bunch of people will resign games to each other after 1 or 2 moves. Why is that?

Originally posted by Ponderable
Different motivations are possible:

* people could resign against players they thin they ahve no chance against anyway to ease their gameload.

* people could resign to opponents, they assume play with silicon support

* people could agree to "gift" each other three points directly (if each one gets a win)

*...

Originally posted by venda
Or they could be sandbagging of course.