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Originally posted by greenphantom
I think you have a vaild point there as for Revello's point though i agree alot of people do resign to grand masters if the are drawn against them lets say in a tournament for instance and are a few hundred points below their own rating, if they were getting totally outplayed i agree they proberly would resign.

But then i have outplayed other players ...[text shortened]... I just can not see this happening especially in tournament game you fight till the dont you.🙄
I'm rated around mid 1400's, and have only been mated twice. That is because I can see it coming.

I will also resign a game if I fall back a few pawns or a full piece. It really isn't that hard to figure out.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I'm rated around mid 1400's, and have only been mated twice. That is because I can see it coming.

I will also resign a game if I fall back a few pawns or a full piece. It really isn't that hard to figure out.

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Philly if you study some material you'll get better.. I seen a game where you lose a pawn.. and not recapture it till 20moves later.. but not only do you get your pawn back.. you have a killer posistion.

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Originally posted by CenterNut
Philly if you study some material you'll get better.. I seen a game where you lose a pawn.. and not recapture it till 20moves later.. but not only do you get your pawn back.. you have a killer posistion.
I'd like to get better... and am... here and there.

One pawn doesn't the game make, I'm talking a good 4 pawns or so against a player well over my rating.

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Originally posted by Maroczy
Russ I was thinking that we should penalize players who timeout in big numbers. It makes it hard to run a clan when some of your players act this way. It also hurts the tournaments.

Now I have taken timeouts before and it is sometimes unavoidable. But you can tell which guys do it to the extreme. I think that they should be banned from clans and certain t ...[text shortened]... ed they timeout a bunch of games.

Just a thought and I was wondering what other people think?
Why should they. It is the players fault that runs out of time.

It is just like playing a 5 minute game and you run out of time then I win.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I'm rated around mid 1400's, and have only been mated twice. That is because I can see it coming.

I will also resign a game if I fall back a few pawns or a full piece. It really isn't that hard to figure out.

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As I see it there are two reasons not to resign.

The first is that the piece may be regained later and even if you can't win you might be able to force a draw.

The second is improvment keep playing your games till mate then you will improve more then just resigning.

Then again do what you want I just think it is best to keep playing but thats my veiw, although I'm sure at a more advanced level resiging is sometimes the right thing to do as the chances of a mistake are much lower.

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How many of the top level games are drawn? How many of the games left have opponents resigned before being mated?

There should be very few left and thus, not being mate is not fishy at all.

I'm not at the top level but good luck mating me! I'd resign before you can mate me. Is that fishy?

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I understand your point of view and it is a valid one but you can not tell me that some of these top players out of say a hundred games have maybe only had 7 checkmates and guess alot of higher rated players will be entering tournaments and playing much lower rated players at times and your telling me all these lower rated players are going to roll over and resign or if not resign be timed outed rather than try to learn something about where they went wrong and play it out until they get checkmated
I cant believe all those people would resign all the time but then maybe i'm wrong i have an open mind to the subject😳

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Originally posted by greenphantom
I understand your point of view and it is a valid one but you can not tell me that some of these top players out of say a hundred games have maybe only had 7 checkmates and guess alot of higher rated players will be entering tournaments and playing much lower rated players at times and your telling me all these lower rated players are going to roll over ...[text shortened]... people would resign all the time but then maybe i'm wrong i have an open mind to the subject😳
Who fcuking cares?

Plus putting a comma here and there would help reading your posts.

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Oh sorry nice use of the queens english yourself! we are having a coversation here maybe you should stick to your playstation tonight

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i'm not interested in lowering the tone just giving you some well deserved feedback to your rather boring reply anyway i have said what i think dont forget to do your home work

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Originally posted by greenphantom
anyway i have said what i think
Yes,I understand,you're substantially crying about the fact that top players don't have much games ended in checkmate.
Interesting as a blank page.

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I'm not familiar with the championship games and clan stuff but what if the timer is really long and you keep draggin it out. Wouldn't you get bored especailly if you in a losing position. But ya, 100+ games and only 7 checkmates is Fishy.

However in OTB I can understand that. Because of the audience and plus the respect factor. I wouldn't want people thinking i'm a jerk for carrying out a game after its over because people talk at clubs.

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I respect your more interesting reply i have had problems with people dragging out their timeouts. Proberly this is a tactic to try and bore you to submit or resign hay.

I do still think there are some fishy players out their just check out the open games at the moment a minute ago there were 3 players with very low ratings under 1200 and guess what top rating on graph anything from 1400 - 1600 now thats crying out fishy