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what about not resigning at all?

Posted By: Albert Steg
Date: Friday, 3 June 2016, at 2:11 a.m.

In Response To: what about not resigning at all? (Phil simborg)

Phil, for someone who is usually all about making the game fun and inviting, you sound like you really know how to stick it to a guy.

I think that, until transcriptions and PR ratings are an inherent part of determining tournament results (as in San Antonio's dual-duel), inflicting this kind of exceedingly petty PR-squeezing on an opponent who isn't so invested in PR ratings is a real imposition.

It's perhaps ironic that Neil started this thread and that it's blooming into just the kind of un-fun development in the backgammon community I believe he was referring to in his Hall of Fame acceptance speech when he urged that the game needs to remain fun if it is to thrive. Being required to play out several rolls of a lost game seems incredibly petty -- isn't there a social reason for the tradition of 'resigning' in chess? Would that game be improved by requiring all games to ope played out until the king is taken?

This mania for fractions of a PR scintilla is increasingly pathetic. Maybe instead of a Giants list we should be talking about the Bean Counters of Backgammon.

I do think that transcribers should arrive at a standard way of handling this situation, but I *don't* think the solution is to burden players over the board with playing out gin positions.

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