@Katoh1 said in #8:
> Not resigning in a completely lost position is a waste of your time, your opponent's time and ultimately just a sign of bad manners and a lack of basic sportsmanship.
In Japan, it is considered a sign of bad manners to blow your nose in public. In many other places, no, no one pay attention to it.
Like all etiquettes, they are prescriptions that are not shared by everyone. Including the etiquette of resigning in a lost position, about which there is no universal agreement, far from it. Etiquettes vary with place, community, time.
In the mid-nineteenth century, it was considered impolite to refuse a gambit. Can you imagine the scene? 1.e4, e5. 2.f4, d5. "Rude! Lack of sportsmanship!" ...
Personally, I always resign because I lose interest when I know that only a glaring mistake by the opponent could save me; But if one wants to continue to the end, I repeat, what is the problem ? The extra one-two minutes that he makes you waste ? Seriously ? If his position is so desperate, how long does it take you to checkmate him ?
Finish him and show that it was useless to continue. Because if, on the other hand, at the last minute he manages to get a stalmate or you make a blunder in turn ( and it happens not infrequently ), then he was right and you didn’t deserve to win...
Sportsmanship is acknowledging defeat when it has been definitively accomplished. For example, complimenting your opponent, when the game is over.
It is a lack of sportsmanship to abandon the game without resigning, because it means not accepting defeat.
Not resigning in a lost position doesn’t means anything in itself. If one prefers to play until he gets checkmated, it’s his business.