Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 09:34:28 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:10:54, Brian Thomas wrote: >A lot of interesting points so far! > >What's interesting is that on the very amateur level in which I play, I find >most people resign out of frustration and being in an inferior position rather >than a calculated, certain loss. This seems to go against the essence of idea. > >Of course, perhaps the most reasonable point of all is: "The rules allow it." >In all athletic sports this isn't allowed, at least no sports to my knowledge. > >Brian That's because it's not called resigning. It's called forfeiting the game and that can be done at any time during any athletic sports game. The only difference is that it is considered very poor sportsmanship whereas in chess not resigning and dragging a game on to checkmate is what is considered very poor sportsmanship.
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