Answers.Body: <p>High level players usually resign when they have a lost position. There's no point in continuing the game for thirty more moves when defeat is inevitable. Checkmate is actually a rare occurence in elite games. You'll find the same thing in more modern games, too.</p>
  <p>While players have the right to keep playing, it is considered bad etiquette to not resign when a player has no realistic chance of scoring.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks :)
  but in this game this rule can be applied on Kasparov as well. How to decide who should resign.
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Answers.Text: Look at the link in your question.  If you look at the Details tab it says "White won"
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Answers.Text: @AbhimanyuSharma In the game, Kasparov was never so behind as to be in a losing position.
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Answers.Text: @AbhimanyuSharma: The one in the losing position, obviously. "Resign" means "give up" - the other player wins when you do it.
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Answers.Text: @AbhimanyuSharma It doesn't apply to Kasparov. He had a winning position at the point his opponent resigned
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Answers.Text: Concerning bad etiquette, there's the famous anectode of Kortschnoi, who asked Mohammed Al Modiakhi in a losing position if he understood english. And when he said "Yes.", Kortschnoi asked “Then why don’t you resign!?”.
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Answers.Body: <p>Checkmate is just one way a game can end. It can also end on time, game loss penalty, or resignation. If you can make your opponent convinced enough of the futility of their position that they resign, this counts just as much of a win as does a checkmate. That's not an &quot;unfinished game&quot;, that's a game that finished with a resignation. It's up to every player to decide when they think their position is hopeless. If you don't see why Viswanathan Anand thought that he had no chance of winning ... well, that's probably part of why you're not World Champion.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Just want to point out that it was Anand who resigned here, not Kasparov...
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Body: <p>I found many historic games unfinished.<br />
  <a href="https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/master/724719" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Take this match as an example.</a>
  This is a match between Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov in Ch World (match) (PCA) 1995. Anand lost this match as per the result. But I didn't find any confirmed checkmate in the last. Please somebody explain.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I'm an 800 point player but to me it's obvious that kasparov has the advantage with one extra passed pawn (pawn with no opposing pawn to contest it) and black has a bad bishop (bishop which is pinned to protect a piece or is blocked by its team pieces) and the situation will only get worse from here so it makes sense that anand would resign to save time.
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Title: Unfinished Chess game between Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov
ThreadText: # Unfinished Chess game between Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-12-06)
  
  I found many historic games unfinished.  
  [Take this match as an example.](https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/master/724719)
  This is a match between Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov in Ch World (match) (PCA) 1995. Anand lost this match as per the result. But I didn't find any confirmed checkmate in the last. Please somebody explain.
  
  **Tags:** checkmate, kasparov, anand
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I'm an 800 point player but to me it's obvious that kasparov has the advantage with one extra passed pawn (pawn with no opposing pawn to contest it) and black has a bad bishop (bishop which is pinned to protect a piece or is blocked by its team pieces) and the situation will only get worse from here so it makes sense that anand would resign to save time.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-12-06. Score: 17
  
  High level players usually resign when they have a lost position. There's no point in continuing the game for thirty more moves when defeat is inevitable. Checkmate is actually a rare occurence in elite games. You'll find the same thing in more modern games, too.
  
  While players have the right to keep playing, it is considered bad etiquette to not resign when a player has no realistic chance of scoring.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks :) but in this game this rule can be applied on Kasparov as well. How to decide who should resign.  
  > **username_3**: Look at the link in your question.  If you look at the Details tab it says "White won"  
  > **username_4**: @username_0 In the game, Kasparov was never so behind as to be in a losing position.  
  > **username_5**: @username_0: The one in the losing position, obviously. "Resign" means "give up" - the other player wins when you do it.  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 It doesn't apply to Kasparov. He had a winning position at the point his opponent resigned  
  > **username_6**: Concerning bad etiquette, there's the famous anectode of Kortschnoi, who asked Mohammed Al Modiakhi in a losing position if he understood english. And when he said "Yes.", Kortschnoi asked “Then why don’t you resign!?”.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_7 on 2020-12-07. Score: 5
  
  Checkmate is just one way a game can end. It can also end on time, game loss penalty, or resignation. If you can make your opponent convinced enough of the futility of their position that they resign, this counts just as much of a win as does a checkmate. That's not an "unfinished game", that's a game that finished with a resignation. It's up to every player to decide when they think their position is hopeless. If you don't see why Viswanathan Anand thought that he had no chance of winning ... well, that's probably part of why you're not World Champion.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_8**: Just want to point out that it was Anand who resigned here, not Kasparov...  
  
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