Originally posted by murrowI don't think that that is what people are complaining about: it is not not resigning, it's not resigning and playing really slowly in the hope your opponent dies of old age before they can deliver checkmate.
i am a 1400-1450 player and i quite often play on in a hopeless position. if i'm playing someone worse than me obviously i can hope they will make a stupid mistake and i can get a draw or stalemate. when i'm playing someone better than me, i learn a lot from seeing how they 'finish me off'. i'm not very good at endgames, and i often screw up when tryin ...[text shortened]... can finish off without thinking too hard about the moves. and it's useful for dunces like me 🙂
Everyone sometimes carries on in losing positions, just because the position is theoretically lost doesn't mean it is easy to convert (like K+B+N v K) and then you are justified in trying to save the game, and if your intention is to learn then a small amount of communication helps - one opponent messaged me telling me why he wanted to carry on in a hopeless position and so I didn't mind. And in fairness there's one or two games I should probably resign...
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Thank you (to most of you) for your constructive comments on my question. Bobbob, since when has having K vs K+Q been comparable to playing black after e4 c5 Ne2? (I'll point out the ? is for a question, not commenting on the move for your benefit bobbob).
I agree with the rest of the people here that I should not ask my opponents to resign if I get such an endgame, but I would appreciate it that if they made a quick glance at my grade (albeit provisional) that they would realise i am not going to stalemate them with K+Q, especially in correspondence chess.
I could, however, understand people who would play on in K+N+B vs K, as not many people know how to force mate with these (although I do! 🙂 )
Originally posted by DeepThought
I don't think that that is what people are complaining about: it is not not resigning, it's not resigning and playing really slowly in the hope your opponent dies of old age before they can deliver checkmate.
Everyone sometimes carries on in losing positions, just because the position is theoretically lost doesn't mean it is easy to convert (like K+B ...[text shortened]... on and so I didn't mind. And in fairness there's one or two games I should probably resign...
okay fair enough. i do msg in this situation, and actually no-one has (said that they) mind!
i think delaying a lost game has usually to do with rating manipulation, which is discussed ad nauseam elsewhere...