Opinionated Articles

The Case For Why # Most chess players are simply not good enough to resign. This is a fact. For the rest of the article allow me to to elaborate on this. Don’t be fooled by people telling you resigning is the honorable thing to do or that it’s rude or disrespectful to not resign in a completely losing position. Sure, it might, on rare occasions, be a hat tip to your fellow chesser whom you have much respect for to gracefully admit defeat.

Why # Are you perhaps just a wee bit obsessed with chess? Well, so am I. It has become such an integral part of my daily life that I often find myself playing at the most inappropriate times having only to abandon a “winning” game 69 seconds later because my doctor tells me he has terrible news. “You’re the father”, he says. These situations are always tragic. I have an affliction that can’t be cured but there’s no reason my Elo rating should tank because of it.