Player resigns...scores of games

Was in the middle of a 3 day game vs some player....21 moves in and I log in yesterday and he's resigned the game in what I thought was a good positiong for him. That's weird I think...maybe he hit the wrong button. I check his  game history and see that his last 40 or more (I stopped checking) games have been lost...all resigned. The player's dropped hundreds of points in the space of a few hours.

Why would he have resigned all those games? Is it a glitch in the site? What's the deal there?

Several possible explanations:

1) Perhaps he's decided to quit the site, and feels that timing out would be rude.

2) Perhaps he feels that he has far too many games going, and only wishes to continue the ones that he finds interesting.

3) Perhaps he is just trying to practice openings, and playing out the rest of the game takes too much time.

4) Perhaps his cat has gotten access to his account.

5) Perhaps he's sand-bagging... intentionally dropping his rating so that he can squeeze into a lower bracket in an upcoming tournament.

All possible.

You could ask him about it. Maybe he didn't want to play all those games anymore.

Personally, I suspect the cat. I was hosting a Forum Game of Aurora on the ParadoxPlaza wargames site, and when I came back into the room from having a smoke, I found my cat standing on my chair and leaning both paws on the keyboard. The game crashed less than an hour later.

Wily cat to resign a hundred games...that's no luddite cat!

This guy has resigned what looks like...about 80 straight games...in the space of a few hours.

He's just gone through game by game and resigned. Maybe he does want to get himself qualified for a low ranked competition on the site as bluemu said.

I personally had a number of games enter into the ol' loss column because I had a few long days at work and couldn't be bothered to play 40+ moves out.  Went down 150+ points or so in online chess, but meh.  Bleemu's number 2 answer I feel would be the most common explanation eh.

This player must watch this 10 times.

Considering that it was already 21 moves in and that so many games were resigned in such a short time, I would have to think that #1 and #2 from blueemu's post is likely.  I did something similar when I decided to step away from chess for a while, resigned my remaining games in a tournament.  Though now I feel bad because my actions actually had an impact on who advanced out of the group.

Bluemu's 2nd option seems to be the one most are suggesting. I usually only play 9 games at once so I'm never saturated. I suppose if you're playing a hudred games at once it might get a bit much

Hate to necro this thread, but you just did the same thing just now??

Maybe that's where he drew the inspiration from

I just want to know the scores.. If I put my opponent in checkmate.. does that give me more score than him resigning? :) x

rjmacdonald wrote:

Hate to necro this thread, but you just did the same thing just now??

Haha I did yeah. Realized I bit off more games than I wanted to chew and just withdrew from a tournament. I can't play so many games all at once. Used to play nine. I'm down to six these days. Six is about all I want.

Fair enough I can understand that :)