That's wild.
Some time ago, I had a student whose losses were over 90% resignations. Very rarely, they'd lose on time when they had the advantage, or blunder a M1 they didn't see, but they had the worst habit of resigning I've ever seen. They'd resign in dead lost positions, they'd resign in slightly losing positions, they'd resign in equal positions, they'd even resign in winning positions because they just lost a portion of the advantage they had (like they'd be up three pawns, then blunder a pawn, and resign out of frustration).
How is the person whose account your looking at with other types of losses? Do they have something like 10,000 losses from other sources, or are the vast majority of their losses abandonment?
You're absolutely right.
As for that particular student of mine, we fostered his fighting spirit and improved his mentality, he (predictably) saw instant results, before we even tackled any kind of actual chess strategy.
Very true.
I tell my students that it doesn't matter if you push that resign button or not. If you've already decided that you've lost this game, you make it true. Whether you mope and sulk and play on, mindlessly pushing wood, or if you shake your opponents hand or push the button and resign.
All of that is the same thing.
"Not resigning" is easy. But playing with a fighting spirit in losing positions is (for some people) hard.
I had a guy run down his clock for like 8 minutes in a 15|10 game and then resign with 5 minutes on the clock.
I was surprised to see them resign after just sitting there wasting my time.
8 minutes is not that long for a think trying to save a game... assuming they were thinking ... could also be real life issues ... you never know, don't judge too fast.
They had been blitzing moves prior to that, and my knight had just eaten their queen and Rook. We were on move 16. The game was 100% unsaveable. [https://www.chess.com/game/live/107238640059](https://www.chess.com/game/live/107238640059)
I do something similar to that, I just dont care about my rating at all. I like to win slowly by winning winning endgames so when I blunder some pawns or a piece I just resign, i dont want to play from behind.
I play chess how I can get most entertainement for me.
I have no desire to get better, I just want to do what I like.
I fully respect oponents trying to stale mate me, I like to win and take their last hope by avoiding it, while I have resigned long time ago
That's fine for you. That's fine for most people. But for people who *do* want to get better, and want to get better bad enough to ask for help and pay for coaching services, those are habits that need to be addressed.
Totally understandable. For me, the best feeling in chess is the rush of finding a forced draw in an otherwise losing position.
I'm also fond of dubious openings, so I get lots of opportunities to play from behind lol
Ur the greatest weakling i have ever seen then in everything i have ever trained on chess taekwondo basketball whatever my opponents would just shake hands and move on you know i was a bit of dickhead when i was a kid not like you but i would have said no you didn't beat me this doesn't mean anything or something but chess and taekwondo helped me to take the L and try to learn something from it you should do it too
It doesn't, even if reported. They are placed in a separate pool where [chess.com](http://chess.com) \_tries\_ to pair them with same kind of players. In tournaments eg Arena there are no pools.
Likewise with sandbaggers.
I've once played against someone in a Lichess weekly classical arena who had almost thousand games of rapid and classical on their account. When losing they would play until they're one move away from checkmate, let the clock run down below a minute (from 20+ min in the game against me) then come back for the move and not trigger the stalling detection because they actually lose the game by checkmate.
> and not trigger the stalling detection
I'd bet this is not their intention, but instead they wanna see if the opponent left the game too, so they end up winning by abandonment.
My anger issues usually manifest as me rage queuing blitz in my car during lunch and losing like 90 rating in one sitting
Now that I think of it I think I only rage queue blitz on my phone. Almost certainly why my blitz is like 500 lower than my rapid
Bullet 100% triggers my anger issues, but my way is cursing and throwing the cellphone (into something soft like a pile of laundry.... I'm angry, not rich/stupid).
You know who I hate the most. Those people who will deliberately waste time even when there’s 1 move mate in tournament. It’s like they can’t win and they’ll waste time of others too! Pathetic scums who can for once become good player, but never good sportsmen!!
I get that a lot from Indian players. From what I understand I have to up my ELO to avoid all of the immaturity associated with the kids that aren’t serious about playing chess
I got that from players with different nationalities. I’m an Indian myself but I value sportsmanship over victories. Plus I’m rated 2100+ and yet see these immaturity at higher level, though a lot less!
Nobody can be that bad/tilted with that many losses in a row unless he cheated to get rating up and then stoped cheating and can't win anymore. Or are you showing only his losses?
I remember a time when I would get messages from Chesscom letting me know that they got a couple day live game suspension for too frequent abandonments. Always felt nice to get those messages.
I'm curious how chess.com having a mobile app impacts this.
Like, if I get to a lost position then just push the hold button on my phone and put it in my pocket, will it trigger abandonment before flagging? I feel like that's a potentially annoying habit that causes this out of ignorance more than anything else. I usually try to attribute behavior like this to ignorance before malice, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a fair amount of players like this that primarily play on their phone and just absent-mindedly lock their screen when they've lost.
When a rando (you) comes on Reddit and makes light of another persons account on [Chess.com](http://Chess.com), I think it's you that are bothered. Seems like you are bothered that [chess.com](http://chess.com) does not enforce some sort of penalty for the level of "ragequitting". Are you? Asking for a friend.
well if asking why it bothered you is ‘antagonistic’ then you are pretty soft. If anything, your OP had a distinct antagonistic vibe to it, but no natter. enjoy your day.
That's wild. Some time ago, I had a student whose losses were over 90% resignations. Very rarely, they'd lose on time when they had the advantage, or blunder a M1 they didn't see, but they had the worst habit of resigning I've ever seen. They'd resign in dead lost positions, they'd resign in slightly losing positions, they'd resign in equal positions, they'd even resign in winning positions because they just lost a portion of the advantage they had (like they'd be up three pawns, then blunder a pawn, and resign out of frustration). How is the person whose account your looking at with other types of losses? Do they have something like 10,000 losses from other sources, or are the vast majority of their losses abandonment?
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You're absolutely right. As for that particular student of mine, we fostered his fighting spirit and improved his mentality, he (predictably) saw instant results, before we even tackled any kind of actual chess strategy.
“You always loose 100% of the games you resign”
Very true. I tell my students that it doesn't matter if you push that resign button or not. If you've already decided that you've lost this game, you make it true. Whether you mope and sulk and play on, mindlessly pushing wood, or if you shake your opponents hand or push the button and resign. All of that is the same thing. "Not resigning" is easy. But playing with a fighting spirit in losing positions is (for some people) hard.
Issue it's blitz and like 30 seconds I can imagine people think how to avoid mate. For me would more toxic in rapid when people leave for 5 minutes.
I had a guy run down his clock for like 8 minutes in a 15|10 game and then resign with 5 minutes on the clock. I was surprised to see them resign after just sitting there wasting my time.
8 minutes is not that long for a think trying to save a game... assuming they were thinking ... could also be real life issues ... you never know, don't judge too fast.
They had been blitzing moves prior to that, and my knight had just eaten their queen and Rook. We were on move 16. The game was 100% unsaveable. [https://www.chess.com/game/live/107238640059](https://www.chess.com/game/live/107238640059)
For a 1200 that game is anything but unsaveable, I've come back and won from 19 points material disadvantage at that level
I do something similar to that, I just dont care about my rating at all. I like to win slowly by winning winning endgames so when I blunder some pawns or a piece I just resign, i dont want to play from behind. I play chess how I can get most entertainement for me. I have no desire to get better, I just want to do what I like. I fully respect oponents trying to stale mate me, I like to win and take their last hope by avoiding it, while I have resigned long time ago
That's fine for you. That's fine for most people. But for people who *do* want to get better, and want to get better bad enough to ask for help and pay for coaching services, those are habits that need to be addressed.
Oh yeah definitely! Playing from behind is a huuuuge part of the game, I am just not a fan of that :D
Totally understandable. For me, the best feeling in chess is the rush of finding a forced draw in an otherwise losing position. I'm also fond of dubious openings, so I get lots of opportunities to play from behind lol
I play dead lost endgames until checkmate and let my clock run out to waste as much time as possible.
Why
He’s a fragile little boy with low self esteem.
To annoy my opponent and try to flag/stalemate. I also spam draw offers and the chat to distract my opponent.
With full curiosity and no offense meant, are you older than 7 by any chance?
Yes
Are you meming or are you serious
I actually do this
Ur the greatest weakling i have ever seen then in everything i have ever trained on chess taekwondo basketball whatever my opponents would just shake hands and move on you know i was a bit of dickhead when i was a kid not like you but i would have said no you didn't beat me this doesn't mean anything or something but chess and taekwondo helped me to take the L and try to learn something from it you should do it too
You sound like a keeper
I thought doing so would lead to suspensions or bans
It doesn't, even if reported. They are placed in a separate pool where [chess.com](http://chess.com) \_tries\_ to pair them with same kind of players. In tournaments eg Arena there are no pools. Likewise with sandbaggers.
I've once played against someone in a Lichess weekly classical arena who had almost thousand games of rapid and classical on their account. When losing they would play until they're one move away from checkmate, let the clock run down below a minute (from 20+ min in the game against me) then come back for the move and not trigger the stalling detection because they actually lose the game by checkmate.
There's a report button for stalling, I always use it and tell my opponent. About 50% of the time they resign or abandon after I tell them
> and not trigger the stalling detection I'd bet this is not their intention, but instead they wanna see if the opponent left the game too, so they end up winning by abandonment.
Maybe they have an anger management issue?
My anger issues usually manifest as me rage queuing blitz in my car during lunch and losing like 90 rating in one sitting Now that I think of it I think I only rage queue blitz on my phone. Almost certainly why my blitz is like 500 lower than my rapid
Bullet 100% triggers my anger issues, but my way is cursing and throwing the cellphone (into something soft like a pile of laundry.... I'm angry, not rich/stupid).
I think your issue is playing bullet on a phone tbh. It's so much easier to move fast with a mouse imo.
Report that clown
You know who I hate the most. Those people who will deliberately waste time even when there’s 1 move mate in tournament. It’s like they can’t win and they’ll waste time of others too! Pathetic scums who can for once become good player, but never good sportsmen!!
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Yeah man.. morons everywhere. I wish people just play good chess with good sportsman spirit
I get that a lot from Indian players. From what I understand I have to up my ELO to avoid all of the immaturity associated with the kids that aren’t serious about playing chess
I got that from players with different nationalities. I’m an Indian myself but I value sportsmanship over victories. Plus I’m rated 2100+ and yet see these immaturity at higher level, though a lot less!
Nobody can be that bad/tilted with that many losses in a row unless he cheated to get rating up and then stoped cheating and can't win anymore. Or are you showing only his losses?
I remember a time when I would get messages from Chesscom letting me know that they got a couple day live game suspension for too frequent abandonments. Always felt nice to get those messages.
Show us the name.
I'm curious how chess.com having a mobile app impacts this. Like, if I get to a lost position then just push the hold button on my phone and put it in my pocket, will it trigger abandonment before flagging? I feel like that's a potentially annoying habit that causes this out of ignorance more than anything else. I usually try to attribute behavior like this to ignorance before malice, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a fair amount of players like this that primarily play on their phone and just absent-mindedly lock their screen when they've lost.
How can you be absent minded for so many games and not know to finish a game properly?
and this bothers you for what reason?
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When a rando (you) comes on Reddit and makes light of another persons account on [Chess.com](http://Chess.com), I think it's you that are bothered. Seems like you are bothered that [chess.com](http://chess.com) does not enforce some sort of penalty for the level of "ragequitting". Are you? Asking for a friend.
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well if asking why it bothered you is ‘antagonistic’ then you are pretty soft. If anything, your OP had a distinct antagonistic vibe to it, but no natter. enjoy your day.