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Topic: Asking your Opponent to Resign, Rude or Not?
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Everybody likes to win the game, but in correspondence/internet chess there are no spectators to give you applause. You only get the "kick" at the moment you know, youre gonna win, not at the moment you chekmated your opponent, unless it was unexpected.
I simply do not believe those persons who say "fine with me, another move, fine with me, lets play on" and "fine... another few weeks, fine with me, another few months"
Sounds hypocritic to me.
A "HOPELESS POSITION" is "A POSITION WITHOUT ANY HOPE" to win, neither to draw.
A hopelessly lost game is a position even a grandmaster cannot turn-around against an average clubplayer, unless he suddenly gets blind and has not a braille screen for his monitor at his disposal.
As you are daily online, hoping to beat you on time is just a dream, unless; a.)you get so sick that you are not even be able to add vacation days, and don,t have nobody else to do it for you, or b.)you simply die during the game.
That is my point, NO WAY-OUT for your opponent for a defeat. Beco (and others) said "it is rude to ask...", but he also said "it is rude not to risign in an hopeless position"
Thats quite a complicated situation we have got.
Reading the comments it looks that it has no use to ask your opponent why he contiues playing that game as he probebly try even harder to keep the game going-on for as long as possible.
And as Razoman pointed the risk you take of "trash talking", its not worth it.
I will not do it again and try to behave myself.
BUT I STILL HATE THE GUY! 
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Being a piece down in middle game WITHOUT any kind compensation is enough to resign (at least at my level). I'll continue playing in such situation only if I see that opponent doesn't know what he's doing, and I have chance for counter play.
Hoping for time expiration or stalemate is just pathetic ( unless there is prepared stalemate situation ). I can't remember when was the last time I stalemated my opponent ... even in blitz ... and I play chess almost every day.
We can all agree that playing lost positions is rude. Asking opponent to resign might be rude, but I never asked opponent to resign ... still that don't stop me to make sarcastic comments on his play while talking to him.
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kloosterveen wrote: Beco (and others) said "it is rude to ask...", but he also said "it is rude not to risign in an hopeless position"
Thats quite a complicated situation we have got. |
Two wrongs don't make one right. 
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Maybe we should rervisit Benjamin Franklin's essay on this topic. http://www.youmeworks.com/thegame.html
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My personal notes have helped me to avoid players who dont resign. I have not put anyone on my ignore list but there is one highly active player that I dont intend to challange becuase he does not resign. In a recent game my opponent had a slightly better position. I am guessing about half a pawn. His rating is 100 points higher than mine. He was in severe time trouble and requested a draw. We agreed to contnue the game as a new unrated game from that position and I accepted a draw in the rated game. I proposed this becuase I wanted to practice the type of position I play poorly in over the board play. I offer this as another option.
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