Though when Magnus Carlson does it, the insult is deliberate, but he’s got the skills to back it up. Like “go ahead and develop, I’m just going to spend the first 10 moves sending my king on a meandering path that just ends up swapping king and queen’s positions and then I’ll win anyways”.
Fwiw, I also think the idea that someone should resign after a mistake is silly. If you want to take offense that I think there’s a chance either I could come back or you’ll make a similar impact mistake of your own, then go ahead and be offended and beat me if you can. Getting pissed off about that might just make you more sloppy anyways.
Hell, I’d even go so far as to say that the act of getting offended they don’t resign is a tactic to get them to resign in the first place. And makes for more boring games because seeing games to completion is interesting.
I just thought the image of it applying to this specific case where a master plays against a novice and resigns after letting them gain an advantage was funny. Of course the son would have wanted to keep playing when he was finally up a queen. The deadpan didn’t land, but that’s a risk I accepted when I embraced dryer humour. I’m not going to resign.
Though when Magnus Carlson does it, the insult is deliberate, but he’s got the skills to back it up. Like “go ahead and develop, I’m just going to spend the first 10 moves sending my king on a meandering path that just ends up swapping king and queen’s positions and then I’ll win anyways”.
Fwiw, I also think the idea that someone should resign after a mistake is silly. If you want to take offense that I think there’s a chance either I could come back or you’ll make a similar impact mistake of your own, then go ahead and be offended and beat me if you can. Getting pissed off about that might just make you more sloppy anyways.
Hell, I’d even go so far as to say that the act of getting offended they don’t resign is a tactic to get them to resign in the first place. And makes for more boring games because seeing games to completion is interesting.
I just thought the image of it applying to this specific case where a master plays against a novice and resigns after letting them gain an advantage was funny. Of course the son would have wanted to keep playing when he was finally up a queen. The deadpan didn’t land, but that’s a risk I accepted when I embraced dryer humour. I’m not going to resign.