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I wouldn't join a game where I was going to be forced to play to the bitter end. The end is bitter for a reason - it's incredibly boring. I mean being the underdog or bit player is one thing, certainly, and quite the lark, but being forced to take turns where you can do virtually nothing but wait for your opponent to get round to stomping you is far from my idea of fun. And once a game isn't fun, you have to ask yourself why you're playing it.

Equally if I had an overwhelming advantage over another player but they refused to admit defeat and essentially turned the game into a fight against the tedium of lategame logistics by castling and turtling up everywhere with no hope of victory, only stalling, I'd just concede to them. I only care about the journey in dom3 - who 'gets the win' is pretty meaningless.