because you're afraid to lose on time.
Thoughts?
Bad form?
Thoughts?
Bad form?
material, position, and time are all resources.
if you have a good chance to lose, offering a draw is smart for you. its up to the opponent to decide if its smart for him to accept or not. sometimes you are wrong, sometimes he is...that too is part of the battle of chess and elo.
I dont think its bad form, except maybe in some situations. for example, if just eyeballing the board, you would estimate it would take at least a minute to convert the win, but you have 5 seconds left, and are offering draws out of pure last second desperation, i would call it bad form, and its basically an insult to your opponents intelligence. id say, as a general rule, for a draw offer to be in good taste, it really should be somewhat unclear who is better (considering time, position and material). i think its more of a gut thing, and should probably require going to an engine for post analysis to see what the real situation was.
imo, draw offers matter more for tournaments, where there is an extra strategic layer. there are many situations where a better player may offer a draw because a loss would drop him out of the prize pool/points, but a win wouldnt really improve their reward, etc. for regular online play, i dont think it matters so much. maybe you could have preserved a little elo, but you will just get it back soon enough.
if you have a good chance to lose, offering a draw is smart for you. its up to the opponent to decide if its smart for him to accept or not. sometimes you are wrong, sometimes he is...that too is part of the battle of chess and elo.
I dont think its bad form, except maybe in some situations. for example, if just eyeballing the board, you would estimate it would take at least a minute to convert the win, but you have 5 seconds left, and are offering draws out of pure last second desperation, i would call it bad form, and its basically an insult to your opponents intelligence. id say, as a general rule, for a draw offer to be in good taste, it really should be somewhat unclear who is better (considering time, position and material). i think its more of a gut thing, and should probably require going to an engine for post analysis to see what the real situation was.
imo, draw offers matter more for tournaments, where there is an extra strategic layer. there are many situations where a better player may offer a draw because a loss would drop him out of the prize pool/points, but a win wouldnt really improve their reward, etc. for regular online play, i dont think it matters so much. maybe you could have preserved a little elo, but you will just get it back soon enough.
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