Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:46:08 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 13:38:30, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 12:43:17, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>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. > >Again, it's because of the random factors. In an athletic sports game there are >random factors in the play of the atheletes where anything could happen up until >the last minute, similar to a board game with dice rolls or the drawing of >cards. Thus, it's worth it to "play it out" and considered bad form not to. > >In chess, where there are no random factors, if in a certain endgame, a player >knows how to queen a pawn and then use that queen to checkmate, everything is >cut and dried and there's no need to continue as there are no surprise dice >rolls or whatever to upset the routine technical finish. > To be (overly?) technical, your opponent could have a heart attack or stroke (or aneurysm or whatever) or could simply make a collosal blunder. But it's still considered bad form to play on in hope of one of these occurring. >It's like in football where the last tackler is about twenty yards behind the >runner who is heading for the end zone there is no shame in stopping the chase >(although forfeiting the game at that point would be different).
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