RevengeMD/Dean,
Those are good guidelines, but I concur with some other posters, Conceding is not always a bad thing, provided you give your opponent his due. For example, take our game when you threw me way off the Barbarossa timetable with the Double Gambit. What would have been the point of continuing that to the bitter end against a player of your caliber ?
I think the other extreme can be worse - to borrow John's chess analogy - the kind of player who makes you queen your pawn and then walk his king to tne edge of the board for a checkmate instead of having the class to resign a hopeless position.
I have never had a problem with an opponent conceding a game, or even dropping it for personal reasons, providing he lets me know about it and doesn't just disappear. Then there was the guy over on the Blitz HQ forum who would register as a newbie, start up a few games, and when things would start to go poorly (as they always did), would then fake his own death (with a note from his Mom, the Belgian police, etc.), log in as another alias and start all over again.
[ May 21, 2003, 10:55 PM: Message edited by: Steve C ]