RAGE Thread

[Jonathan Meer]

Completely disagree.

No game starts being completely hopeless.

That's not what I'm saying, nor was that my original remarks (which have been all but lost in Tim's post).

It's like chess. You improve your chess game best from going over one of your hard-fought lost games and analyzing it to find where things went wrong.

You don't improve your chess game by continuing to play that game if you're a rook and a queen down, and then analyzing that series of moves. That situation is so imbalanced, and so far-removed from the initial set-up, that there simply is little-to-nothing to learn.

I've got a reputation now for being overly surrenderous (which is unfounded now), but it's this same principle. If the game is clearly lost (which some games are, at a point), then there's no point in playing further. There's usually no fun to it, and there's certainly nothing to learn from watching your nexus get taken down. Except maybe how to turtle in extremely imbalanced set-ups.