Is it better to string the game out indefinitely, and continue to enjoy playing it for its own sake?
Or, in trying to reach a resolution, to provoke a crisis – knowing that to do so is risky: you may be moving the game on to another level, or you may cause it to crash into the buffers.
How do you make that choice? Whatever you do, you can be sure that things will never be quite the same again.
Maybe it’s easier if you have confidence that there will be other games to play, rather than if you feel as though this is the only game in town.