Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:43:17 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:34:28, Louis Fagliano wrote: >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. I think he was asking WHY it is considered poor sportsmanship in one and the opposite in the other.
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