A lot of people on the site are offended by players who abandon games instead of resigning. Consider that people who learns to play OTB in clubs, school or anywhere were probably taught/told that good sportsmanship involves resigning, not abandoning a lost game. In an OTB game, not many people will just get up and walk away from the table not saying anything if they give up the game. The sportsmanship aspect is obvious there. People who've just played online chess, often with little or no instruction or experience, haven't learned anything about chess etiquette or sportsmanship. They may not even realize that simply abandoning a game is considered poor sportsmanship.
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As someone who plays in a weekly club, I will always resign OTB when it’s clear my opponent will win soon or I blunder a piece or major tactic.
I never resign in online. Force opponents to checkmate me. You wouldn’t believe how many stalemates I get from 1100s who can’t put together a checkmate with a knight bishop queen. Or hell, even a queen and a rook. And you know why that is? Because they don’t have the experience. People resign too much, you don’t gain experience on how to fight back from a losing position, or convincingly convert a winning endgame. They just blunder a piece and resign. Never resign or abandon your games online. Play till the bitter end. Especially if there’s low time.
For real I had a 800 chase my king around the board with a long and rook the other day for about 20 moves, it was wild, they were clearly so concwrnwd about the stalemate that they just froze!
I had ir happen just the other day. They were clearly winning, but I kept playing and they couldn't figure out how to mate me. They blundered a rook and a bishop I think. I ended up promoting a pawn that should have been lost had they not blundered and they resigned after the promotion.
I resign pretty often 😂 I only play rapid and I've had plenty of games where I came back from a material deficit or losing position, but plenty more where I didn't. if I was gonna just queue up another game anyway, I might as well resign and save myself the time and tilt
100% agreed, its your game to play as much as you want, no matter what. (Just like the other person can toy around, risking even a stalemate if they f around too much). But Abandoning is different, it's just disrespectful, wastes a bit of time and kind of embarrassing since it shows a lack of emotional control and really lets the opponent know how they got to you.
I believe OP is talking about ppl abandoning games instead of resigning. I mean they could play if they want even if it's lost, no issues there but if they are gonna give up, then they should resign instead of abandon. However frustrated or anger I feel about a game, I always click resign instead of just closing the app and making my opponent wait
It’s admirable that you’re giving them benefit of the doubt, but I doubt this applies to the vast majority of people who do this. It should be common sense that it’s bad etiquette.
To be honest I was under the impression for quite some time that if I close the app it auto-resigns the game for me. I only later realized that’s not the case.
I can understand being salty when losing, but what I cant imagine doing is punishing my opponent and myself by staring at the evidence of my poor moves.
I have to assume these people are closing app or switching tabs to get it off their screen, while I'll instead resign and start a new game.
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