i know it may be etiquette to resign when your starting to loose, but doesn't it piss you off? at least sometimes?!?
in game 511275, (how do you link games btw? 😛) Ray Zachary just resigned one whole move before mate! one move!!! i wanted that mate! :'(
and in game 528137 Mad Mac MacMad resigned when i had posed a little thread, but nothing special...
why?!?
i usually ask if my opponent wants me to resign before i do...😛
I do find it disappointing. They all seem to resign about the same time too. So I'll have 200 games going and a handful of them I am kicking their butt, not doing so well in a lot of others, so I am enjoying the beating I am giving to those few. Then they all resign on me and I am left with games I am struggling with. I like to mate my opponents!!😛
ncrosby
Originally posted by stokeryes-it is their right-but one move from mate? what's one move?!?
its the players write to resign when they wish, but having wrote that when its lost you should resign and learn to play better
and how are we meant to learn to play better if we can't play full games?!?
I don't mind people resigning. I do mid that when they do I get no notification. Sometimes I notice that my rating has gone up, somethimes that the game is missing, but other times it's not 'till I think "what happened to the game aganst X? I haven't moved in that one for a while" only to see that he resigned weeks earlier.
Originally posted by belgianfreakyes when ive resigned i sometimes wish to say something to my opponent but he is like me just puts it into arcives. the post mortem of games is missing. To the earlyer post my writen message was learn to play better up to the point you lose playing on a lost game is no improvement, just dogmatic. Go thro the game and see if or where you would do things different.
I don't mind people resigning. I do mid that when they do I get no notification. Sometimes I notice that my rating has gone up, somethimes that the game is missing, but other times it's not 'till I think "what happened to the game aganst X? I haven't moved in that one for a while" only to see that he resigned weeks earlier.
What's to learn when the game is already over? How are you learning anything when one side has a clear lead over the other, to the point where it's going to take a move of even GREATER stupidity to bring things back into equilibrium?
Don't think you're getting better when you practice games where you are ahead a knight or even a rook, unless you're a beginner. It always bothers me when people continue playing after they've already lost -- it is just delaying the inevitable, and hoping for a miracle in the meantime. Far better to start a fresh new game. Much more enjoyable too, because both sides are interested again: one person isn't sleeping while the other is seeing only DEATH for his pieces.
Originally posted by lordivanwell-my game against mad mac macmad wasn't to unequal or anything...i mean-mate wasn't quite imminant and i think we were equal on peices (i can't remeber exactly...)
What's to learn when the game is already over? How are you learning anything when one side has a clear lead over the other, to the point where it's going to take a move of even GREATER stupidity to bring things back into equilibrium?
Don't think you're getting better when you practice games where you are ahead a knight or even a rook, unless you're ...[text shortened]... nterested again: one person isn't sleeping while the other is seeing only DEATH for his pieces.
but isn't the whole point of the game to mate your opponent?!? níeve though it may sound, but considering that the people i play are generally around the same level as me, and so probubly just as níeve...
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If someone checkmates me it is generally because I never saw it coming, if I was a couple of moves away from losing from mate and there was no way out I would always resign, why prolong the inevitable?
I would love to be at the stage where all my games finished won, drawn or resiged, not there yet though...
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I think for unsubscribers, we prefer it for our opponents to just resign in a losing position. We only get 6 games, and most of us want to move on to a different opponent as soon as possible. I can't speak for subscribers though, seeing how you seem to need a credit card to subscribe. 🙄 Ta.
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Originally posted by geniusWhen you post, look to the right and you will see "Link to a game." Click on it and enter your game id.
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in game 511275, (how do you link games btw? 😛) ....
528137 Mad Mac MacMad resigned when i had posed a little thread, but nothing special...
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i usually ask if my opponent wants me to resign before i do...😛
Game 511275
Game 528137
Don't think you're getting better when you practice games where you are ahead a knight or even a rook, unless you're a beginner.you seem to quite a nifty player, but are you suggesting that any game where you are a knight or more ahead is won??? Or are you only talking about engames? Even here, pawn position is more important, isn't it? I've aways fancied trying to beat an oppo who has a rook against my 3 linked pawns.
Originally posted by geniusNo. Note that there are ways to win besides checkmate. This says to me that, although it is the most pleasurable way to win, it is not the raison d'etre. Thus we must say that the point of the game is simply to win. When you no longer have a chance of winning, then there is no point at all in playing to the very end, unless your opponent needs practice in playing the correct moves that properly finishes the game.
but isn't the whole point of the game to mate your opponent?!?