Resignation VS the 'Null' move: Irrelevant Poll #1!

[worldfamous]

(09-20-2012 06:16 AM)IronMagus Wrote:  

(08-24-2012 02:48 AM)worldfamous Wrote:  Statistically speaking, you're obviously better off letting your opponent beat you. But sometimes I just want to get that game out of my cue as quick as I can.

How do you figure, sports fan? The way I understand it, it's actually better to lose right away than to wait for the inevitable, because in the meantime you'll be playing more games with a: lower-ranked opponents and b: your wins will be worth more, both of these because your rank has gone down from the loss. If you wait and let the opponent win a couple days from now, your rank will still be higher (slightly, admittedly) and so you'll be playing against harder opponents and your wins will be worth less since you're "expected" to do that much better.

That said, I usually fight it out until the bitter end. I don't usually surrender, but I don't just sit back and let them raze me either, I fight back and hope that they make a mistake. If the win is glaringly obvious and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it and I know that they know that there's absolutely nothing I can do about it then, yeah, sometimes I'll just resign. But usually I go down swingin'.

Let's say your opponent misses a possible finishing move 1/10 times, giving you a 10% chance to survive and finish your opponent later. When you resign, you win 0/10 times. Even if your opponent makes a mistake 1/1000, you're still statistically better off letting them try to finish you off.