bcoz it's their H O B B Y
Play till mate!!
I resign to mess with the stats.
Because they care about their king
a better question: why don't they! totally lost, with plenty of time, they continue to make a mess of chess.
Generally, people resign to save time.
There is always the chance that 1 will come back from a lost position.
But the chance (the higher the rating of the players) is very low.
Better to admit defeat and go solve puzzles, take a walk, or analyze the game.
Sure, sometimes people resign games that they would have won if they hadn't.
But competition is not about winning "some" games, it is about winning the most games possible.
Resigning and doing puzzles, or any other good chess training will make sure you lose less games than never resigning will.
And some people resign because they consider it to be "good sportsmanship".
And sometimes people resign because:
#1 They could be lagging and resigned instead of potentially losing connection.
#2 They had to go "wash his hands".
#3 Their controlling girlfriend said "Hey what ya doing?" And they got terrified.
#4 They could be tired and want to sleep.
#5 They had to play in a tournament.
#6 They had to go make dinner.
#7 They had to go to work/somewhere to keep a deal.
#8 They could be feeling sick.
#9 They could just have lost interest in that game for whatever reason.
#10 An emergency might have happened.
#11 Literally anything.
I would say; be glad he resigned. Instead of just leaving.
There is always the chance that 1 will come back from a lost position.
But the chance (the higher the rating of the players) is very low.
Better to admit defeat and go solve puzzles, take a walk, or analyze the game.
Sure, sometimes people resign games that they would have won if they hadn't.
But competition is not about winning "some" games, it is about winning the most games possible.
Resigning and doing puzzles, or any other good chess training will make sure you lose less games than never resigning will.
And some people resign because they consider it to be "good sportsmanship".
And sometimes people resign because:
#1 They could be lagging and resigned instead of potentially losing connection.
#2 They had to go "wash his hands".
#3 Their controlling girlfriend said "Hey what ya doing?" And they got terrified.
#4 They could be tired and want to sleep.
#5 They had to play in a tournament.
#6 They had to go make dinner.
#7 They had to go to work/somewhere to keep a deal.
#8 They could be feeling sick.
#9 They could just have lost interest in that game for whatever reason.
#10 An emergency might have happened.
#11 Literally anything.
I would say; be glad he resigned. Instead of just leaving.
People resign reading shadow s post as its too large😂
People resign from having stiff neck trying to play a game on a silly small screen device that can't handle real text posts. Or can only display it a few lines at a time, with wrong paragraph shaping. People resign from having to tweet long thoughts. And finding no keyboard on their device. only self-correcting low vocabulary, no imagination software attempting to compensate for that. People are exhausted.
That's actually an aggressively losing position
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