What's a Chess game?

Resign, Pull the Plug, Bail-Out, Quit, "I'm not myself (I'm usually better than this)", "You'r just a scummy ...(insert country of residence here), "I'm better than you, you just played me at a bad time...... and so on...

Perhaps there should be a box to tick if you only want to play others who don't quit, I think that even when loosing, I  can still learn off the other player, in fact the best one to learn from, is some one that can beat me. I want to play these people out, and learn as much as possible from them,

I dont view tha game as finished untill the last possible move, and to have mutually respectfull conversation during the game, makes the game even more enjoyable. Some prefer not to chat, and the game is still great, but in my view, anything less than a game, isn't a game.

Who bails out of scrabble, because they aren't doing as well as the others?

I'm looking forward to more games, win or lose.

lol. i like winning

First things first: You spell the word "lose", not "loose". "loose" means to make something looser (eg. your shoe laces) and is pronounced with a soft "s".

Regarding your main point - true, but with experience you learn to recognize situations where any chances of saving the game becomes negligibly small. In that case, resigning is generally seen as preferable to postponing the inevitable. That of course differs depending on your and your opponent's skill level.

Re: #2, Agree! winnings always good, even better when your opponant has been bagging you out over your previous poor moves. LOL

Re:#3,
Point 1- Spelling correction taken on board.
Point 2 - I've played the occassional game where "the inevitable" was expected and expressed by my opponant, then in a few moves, I've stumbled on, or engineered a win... that was good value too!

Skill level can be ruined by sleep deprivation, distraction, lose shoelaces, and glitches in the Matrix etc... these are variables that make playing humans better than playing computers.

Regards

Well it's been 12 months on the site, winning, losing, losing and resigning!

Yes, I've learned that resigning isn't such a bad way to end the game, it seems that most players take a respectful resignation quite well.

I guess I could say that...
Some-times, there's no value in pushing burning wood, but looking ae the embers might reveal how the fire started.

I don't resign at the first mistake, but if I have truly bungled it and the other side has a decisive advantage I will resign.  Whats the point in dragging it out in hopes the other guy gets hit with a meteor or suffers a sudden attack of short term amnesia?  I think I learn more by starting another game and watching someone search for good moves in a roughly even position.  If I am badly down in a position the lesson of what not to do has already been learned. 

Sometimes it takes more than the Tactics Trainer to tell that someone's too tired to play,
if that doesn't do it, losing the Queen within the first 3rd of the game is a reasonable indicator,
and if that still doesn't do it...  loosing the Rook seems to be a good second opinion.

But when all's said, these are only indicators, Just because the rest of the house turned the lights off 3 hours ago, that doesn't have to be read as "your a chess junky".

I like winning ... but I also like whining !! 

pleasesignhere ... I think you're right, I like what you wrote :) I have met (here on chess.com) a very nice person who lives in Tasmania and we have nice conversations during our games and we have finished our games (when I haven't run out of time, a bad habit of mine when lifes gets hectic).  We both want to get better but what I like the most is that our games are fun. 

I probably won't resign from a game of chess (especially now that I've found this cool site where we have days to make a move) but I may quit a 9 hour game of Monopoly, sue me :)

p.s. i love/hate chess

I don't mind people who resign. The ones I hate are the ones in live chess who either mysteriously "disconnect" when they are losing, or just wait for the clock to run down in the hope that I will get bored and resign a won position.

I think chess.com should form a secret team of assassins to hunt down and kill these people.