Playing badly deliberately

Originally posted by wsossin
It is actually not irrational to wait out games when you are lost. First, people make mistakes. Second, people leave the site. These are rational reasons for waiting. On the other hand, the more games you have, the least time/game and not resigning lost games may affect your results in other games. Finally, and this is my main reason for resigning lost games, is that it is depressing looking at these games, having to relive your mistakes.

I completely agree with your last sentence, I'd far sooner get shot of games where I look like an idiot and try to do better the next time (this rarely works in my case but the principal is there....) And of course people make mistakes, but one has to be making moves oneself in order to allow that to happen.