Only Chess
26 Mar 04
Originally posted by fjordTruly, the best post to date in this thread. It can not have been easy for fjord to say these words and retain a degree of neutrality.
A player has the right to choose the moment he wants to resign. His opponent can claim or suggest a draw but never a win. Just exercise your patience when you feel annoyed with it. It is bad etiquette to start wining about it.
A way to make the game a bit more interesting for yourself is to estimate in how many moves you will mate your opponent. If you do tha ...[text shortened]... ill be disappointed when your opponent resigns before you have given the final blow.
Fjord
I respect that and will model any future posts on this topic around it.
BR's skeeter