"Original Message by PAWNAROUND on 5/10/2009 @ 7:16am:

I entered a tournament afew months ago and for some reasom it has not even progressed to the 2nd round! I checked all of the pairings and noticed that your game is the only one left!!  You are about to be mated on the next move. Why can't you show some sportsmanship and resign? I could see if it were a close game, but it is not. Your play is affecting 50 other players.

Glenn (PAWNAROUND)"

Today I was asked by someone within a tournament to resign a game instead of allowing my opponent to claim checkmate against me. This person's reasoning was because the game between my opponent and myself was the last one before the second round could start and that our game was taking too long. Being a new chess player I am still learning and do not have the capacity yet to see several moves ahead. Apparently this person is much more knowledgable and told me that I was going to lose anyway in the next move and should just give up. I was unaware that it was  "courteous" to inform people, in games that YOU ARE NOT PLAYING IN, that they should resign in order to speed up a tourney for themselves. I hope none of my chess friends would ever expect me to tell them that they are taking too long to play their games as I don't think I could ever be that rude to give input on a game that I am not even playing.