I have decided to stop resigning games that I 'will probably loose' but have not not lost yet, just cause when you get to a low rating one is tempted to quickly resign all the other likely lost games' too... but then one never gets to practice playing in a situation where one is a piece down or a pawn down etc,,,, so lets play some chess and not worry about the ratings as much people!
Alternatively, if you care about ratings, then consider resing your 'hopeless' games when you get knocked down a few pegs on teh rating scales.....
Personally, I use RHP to LEARN and improve my chess, and my over the board chess benefits from my RHP chess, so I am gonna keep at my hopeless games, and maybe just maybe learn a few new tricks....
Adious Amigos
Originally posted by royalchickenHow often do you see a mate from 6 moves ahead - unless I am in a hopelessly lost endgame I find seeing mates from so far ahead that there is no way out of very rare!
I agree. All too often, I am in an evenly matched game, and I notice that my opponent has a combination about 6-7 moves in length that leads to mate. So I resign, assuming they will see it. Usually, however, if I keep playing, they never do. So fight until you are very nearly dead.
Just for the record... even though I'm number 2 on the MAP table with over 75.000 moves under my belt, I'm still going to continue resigning in hopeless positions and hope my opponents will do the same.
If I'd have carried on playing in all the games in which I've resigned I'm sure I'd have broken through the 100,000 barrier by now.
If you folks really want practice at the expense of wasting your opponent's time why not set up some set piece games in the open invites and play each other from hopeless positions.
Normally, the only times I don't resign is if I think there is a possibility of stalemate or if mate is either unexpected or so close that I can give my opponent the satisfaction or mating and also send them a well done message.
Resign and start afresh is my motto 🙂
Rhymester
Originally posted by RhymesterRhymester,
Just for the record... even though I'm number 2 on the MAP table with over 75.000 moves under my belt, I'm still going to continue resigning in hopeless positions and hope my opponents will do the same.
If I'd have carried on playing in all the games in which I've resigned I'm sure I'd have broken through the 100,000 barrier by now.
If you folks re ...[text shortened]... g and also send them a well done message.
Resign and start afresh is my motto 🙂
Rhymester
I hope you will continue the way you just described. I hope a lot of others will do the same!
If someone chooses not to act like this that's okay with me, though I will probably avoid playing him/her in the future...
Otto
In idealized chess? Perhaps I should explain. von Neumann was one of the originators of the theory of games. Chess, apparently, has an "optimum stratagey", but it is so computationally intensive as to be no more than a delicious abstraction. (Whereas, for example, the optimum stratagey for tic-tac-toe or Nim can be figured out and executed in minutes.) In "idealized chess", two players determine some "system" by which they will play, and thus can answer any move made that is allowed by their opponent's system. Thus the game is decided without any piece being moved.