Originally posted by Mad RookAssuming the GAME is lost means there may be AT THE MOST, 8 more moves.
...But many have wasted much time by not resigning.
If there are more than 8 moves (a PURELY arbitrary number) then the game is far from OVER.
By playing on, by sticking IT out and wasting all your valuable time that it takes to make a puny 8 moves, the time you "waste" is made up by the KNOWLEDGE you gain.
As you strive to stay alive, you are gaining IMMEASURABLE defensive skills. You are learning how to frustrate your opponent who JUST can't seem to deliver a mate. Frustration = blunders. TRUST me on that one.
The skills you learn by being down a queen and minor piece will COME into play the next game, and EVERY game thereafter.
Play on and LEARN.
Originally posted by teacher1Sorry, I don't really have any desire to purchase a seat to Sideshow Bob's Traveling Circus. You can try, but you simply won't be successful at sucking me into your little world of illogic.
Assuming the GAME is lost means there may be AT THE MOST, 8 more moves.
If there are more than 8 moves (a PURELY arbitrary number) then the game is far from OVER.
By playing on, by sticking IT out and wasting all your valuable time that it takes to make a puny 8 moves, the time you "waste" is made up by the KNOWLEDGE you gain.
As you strive to sta ...[text shortened]... or piece will COME into play the next game, and EVERY game thereafter.
Play on and LEARN.
I was just responding to ChessPraxis. At least he shows a little class - lobbing an occasional one-liner at the opportune moment. 🙂
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Originally posted by teacher1TRUE some people resign early, BUT saying resigning IS always A bad decision is standard beginner ATTITUDE. There's nothing wrong with IT and at your LEVEL you WILL learn from continuing TO play in the LOST game. That's BECAUSE you DON'T yet understand WHY the position is LOSING and you WILL learn gradually when YOU GET FINISHED OFF by your opponents. WHEN you'll reach a certain level you'll understand why people resign. NOT resigning IN some SiTuAtIoNs is a loss of your own time and energy, while suffering to learn NOTHING. MORE advanced opponents will MOST LIKELY never STALEMATE YOU IN A WINNING Q+K VS K ENDING BECAUSE THEY KNOW that's the only way that they aren't going to win. This means that we can for example resign lost endgames where we can't stop promotion. YOU see, SOME PLAYERS HAVE ALREADY learned WHAT there IS to LEARN about THOSE LOST POSITIONS.
Assuming the GAME is lost means there may be AT THE MOST, 8 more moves.
If there are more than 8 moves (a PURELY arbitrary number) then the game is far from OVER.
By playing on, by sticking IT out and wasting all your valuable time that it takes to make a puny 8 moves, the time you "waste" is made up by the KNOWLEDGE you gain.
As you strive to sta or piece will COME into play the next game, and EVERY game thereafter.
Play on and LEARN.
IM NeW WITH this CaPsLoCkIng too many words thing, am I DOING it well or IS IT ANNOYING AS HELL?
please, PEOPLE, if you are upset at my playing on in a "lost" game, then just DELIVER THE MATE!!
Do I make MYSELF Clear?
If the game is lost (as I said before) there can't be too many moves left. Are you all so confident in your abilities as to see a lost game that is 10 or 12 or more moves away? DANG, there must be a heck of a LOT of super GMs here.
Maybe I should adopt the attitude: Winners never quit and quitters nev---
Originally posted by clandarkfireI thought this was a waste of a thread until I saw CHICKS in bold letters. Thread redeemed!
Hey- To POST in THIS thread, you have to ADD pointless CAPS at least once every sentence at PARTS where they don't make any sense. I mean SERIOUSLY, don't you know it make YOU look cool? The CHICKS dig it.
Originally posted by teacher1It doesn't take a gm to sometimes know you have a losing pawn ending that is hopeless but could take 20+ moves to mate.
If the game is lost (as I said before) there can't be too many moves left. Are you all so confident in your abilities as to see a lost game that is 10 or 12 or more moves away? DANG, there must be a heck of a LOT of super GMs here.