🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jul 14, 2017 12:41 PM UTC:
I wasn't comfortable with the idea of resignation not being allowed except when someone is checked, but H. G. expressed it better than I was able to. Resignation is a part of Chess because you can't stop people from quitting a game, but you can penalize people who quit with a loss. So, if you say that resignation is not allowed under some circumstances, all you've done is created a sitation where the game might be abandoned without any resolution because it could not be cleanly ended.
I wasn't comfortable with the idea of resignation not being allowed except when someone is checked, but H. G. expressed it better than I was able to. Resignation is a part of Chess because you can't stop people from quitting a game, but you can penalize people who quit with a loss. So, if you say that resignation is not allowed under some circumstances, all you've done is created a sitation where the game might be abandoned without any resolution because it could not be cleanly ended.