ketchuplover: Oh yes, good meal and good wine and Champagne.

crosseyed:

please research it yourself. thank ye

I am not aware of anything for you in the USA on the 16th November. But I do know you have Thanksgiving Day coming soon.

Carnie: send fencer a private message and he will look into it
give him some time to reply though

Carnie: I agree with Hrqls....dont make it public like some do....he wont answer those ones....but he did say at one stage that there was no more fixing, so really there is no use complaining - only makes him more determined, but keep an eye on your credit card usage...a very close eye....

Carnie: But you did lol. So much for the sink ship comment and complaining about this site.

heavenrose: WOW...how can you sleep til noon? dont you work?

Hello,
In this game:
Grand Chess (evertVB vs. Hackingnop)
Is there any moderator that can help me claim draw?

General Chat, Like "Hello"s, really SHOULD be on the General Chat board not this one. Thanks for understanding.

rod03801: or on facebook.

evertVB: please send a private message to fencer

Carnie:
No, your opponent was a pawn. Took your King and promoted to a Rook.
Just use the move arrows to go back 1 move.

Brief rant - it's OK to resign! I understand playing a game through to the end, especially when there is the possibility of some learning coming out of it. But once you are mathematically eliminated, and nothing is to be gained even in terms of knowledge, why drag things out? 

Carpe Diem: send a pm to your opponent, and ask them in the comments in the game .. most will resign after you ask them

Hrqls: Yeah, I certainly could, but I don't feel strongly enough to bother with that most of the time - just enough tonight for a small rant on the boards instead. :) And in this particular case, it's someone with in-game comments shut off. I feel better now anyway. :D

Carpe Diem: Yes I agree with you on that. So when I have that situation I resign and explain why.

Hrqls: That is if they do not have the message box cancelled.

Carpe Diem: I think sometimes opponents try to see how many moves in a day they can make. Even a losing move/game counts as a move made. 

Carpe Diem: it's OK to resign! [,,,] why drag things out?

It might surprise you but for some people, it's not. They'd rather play the loss than resign it. It may or may not be related to suicide versus natural death. ;o)

Another possibility is that the person thinks that they're doing you a favour by giving you the satisfaction of the final, winning, move. I do know that I sometimes feel robbed of that minor pleasure when someone resigns close to the end.

A third possibility is that "mathematically eliminated" does not always occur to the non-mathematically minded.

A fourth ... an opponent might be resentful of the loss and dragging it out to punish you.

The most likely, I would guess, is thoughtlessness or mindlessness; the force of habit.... The game appears, the player moves, on to the next....

Clandestine 1: I especially hate being resigned on in the Dice Poker games. Several times I had managed to get 'Values in all Boxes', and my opponent resigned two moves before the end, denying me the achievement.

But generally, I agree.
If the game is mathematically lost, you should resign. There are other sites where this is implemented (the game just ends), but it is not trivial to code that for each game.

Aganju:that’s a good point. Some people collect Achievement points whereas others have no idea what they are. 

playBunny: good points :-)

against most opponents it's usually point 3 or 5 ... but against you, from now on, it will be point 4 :-)