Opponent gives up, sort of?

Tournaments
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i’m in two separate tournaments against the same player, one match i won. the other match they sort of gave up halfway and kept passing. what should i do with it?, or should i do nothing?

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Link to the game?

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first match, second or both?

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If they are behind, yeah that’s bad behavior and you should report it.

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weird thing is, they where ahead in the second match they kept passing every few moves but they where ahead.

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I would just play 10-15 moves to secure the entire board and then request counting.

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Sometimes when I am very far ahead, I will pass to give a friendly hint to my opponent that they should resign. Not sure if that is the case here. Might help to see that game.

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The match in which the opponent keeps passing?

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I think passing shouldn’t be considered “rude behaviour” under no circumstances. Refusing to count or meddling with the counting algorithm on the other hand should. So I think you should aim to reach that phase.

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Oh yep, your opponent was ahead and got bored.

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The game is almost finished, close the borders and then pass.

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but i tried and they keep going on from counting instead of going to counting and finishing the match

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The border is not yet closed. Do you see where?

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but why pass randomly from time to time then? they keep randomly passing.

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Don’t care. YOU close the borders first and THEN you will pass.

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They are passing because they can still win (by a lot) even if they pass. If this were an even game, I would say you should have resigned a long time ago, but if you are a beginner I can understand if you don’t see that.

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Rules
Japanese

Playing inside of your own territory ([REDACTED]) will lose you 1 point. You should focus on closing off the borders ([REDACTED]) and then passing yourself.

but why pass randomly from time to time then? they keep randomly passing.

It’s on them. When they pass they lose X points, where X is the value of the biggest sente move on the board right now. You can consider every pass a +X points to your score.

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Is there really such a thing as a “friendly hint” that you think someone should stop wasting your time? That’s effectively what’s been said by passing early right? “I’m winning, I don’t want to play the game to the end, you’re wasting my time, please resign”, and maybe the please isn’t always implied.

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Your last move (N12) still doesn’t close the border of your territory, and actually you lost a point by playing it.