When I'm in a losing position when the only way I could get a stalemate or a checkmate is by luck, I resign for five reasons -
1 - I don't want to spend my free time playing a game of chess that I have clearly lost.
2 - I don't want to waste my opponent's time playing a game of chess that I have clearly lost.
3 - I don't want to win a game on luck
4 - I don't want my opponent to feel that I'm...
...too stupid to see the position is lost.
...too stubborn to admit the position is lost.
...so desperate to win that I hope they run out of time.
So, whenever I'm playing a game of chess, and my opponent is in a position that is clearly lost, but keeps delaying the inevitable and does not resign, it irritates me.
I understand that there are reasons some people don't resign - perhaps they think that resigning is a show of weakness, or perhaps they don't realize that there is a resign button, or perhaps their parents have been kidnapped by an insane serial killer and the only way to save them is to play lots of chess games without using the resign button.
I get annoyed at them anyway, because, let's face it, you still get angry when a spider bites you even though you know it probably had a perfectly good reason.
Does it irritate you when people don't resign in a lost position?
Is there anyone that actually gets annoyed when people resign?
1 - I don't want to spend my free time playing a game of chess that I have clearly lost.
2 - I don't want to waste my opponent's time playing a game of chess that I have clearly lost.
3 - I don't want to win a game on luck
4 - I don't want my opponent to feel that I'm...
...too stupid to see the position is lost.
...too stubborn to admit the position is lost.
...so desperate to win that I hope they run out of time.
So, whenever I'm playing a game of chess, and my opponent is in a position that is clearly lost, but keeps delaying the inevitable and does not resign, it irritates me.
I understand that there are reasons some people don't resign - perhaps they think that resigning is a show of weakness, or perhaps they don't realize that there is a resign button, or perhaps their parents have been kidnapped by an insane serial killer and the only way to save them is to play lots of chess games without using the resign button.
I get annoyed at them anyway, because, let's face it, you still get angry when a spider bites you even though you know it probably had a perfectly good reason.
Does it irritate you when people don't resign in a lost position?
Is there anyone that actually gets annoyed when people resign?