Don’t be so quick to resign.
Sort:
May 5, 2021
0
#22
Fight as long as there is a path to winning or stalemate. Don’t fight an un winnable fight. Those are my rules for how long I stay in.
May 5, 2021
0
#23
I DISAGREE!!! When a position is truely lost why try and bore your opponent to death. There is another game around the corner. Take the loss as it is and try your best the next game. Stupid continuous moves only wears out your wrist. I see it happing with 2000 level players during a tournament and I think it really makes them look dumb!!!
This is a dumb advice. Your rating is always going to be proportional to your playing strength. If your playing strength is 2500, you are not going to be in 900 very long. Fight hard in a clearly losing position will not improve one's playing strength. It is better off to spend the time and energy to try to avoid being in the same situation in the future by going into analysis.
unless you are over 1000 rating, you shouldn't resign. Or if you are eric rosen
May 6, 2021
0
#26
Infinite_Blitz wrote:
unless you are over 1000 rating, you shouldn't resign. Or if you are eric rosen
or gothamchess
at my level, just hit 900, people resign when they lose their queen lol
at first i was in the habit of messaging people later and saying, "hey i know you lost your queen early but the game was far from over and quite frankly, im not good. you really stood a fair chance at winning, even without your queen." but it's happened so many times now that i just move on.
something i found interesting about OP though was the search for stalemate. I'm always looking for checkmates, even when i'm certainly going to lose. definitely something i'd like to work on though in the future, stalemates that is.
I'd like to leave you with this, an example of why you should fight to the end. I'm black, got the crap kicked out of me all game but the guy couldn't figure out how to checkmate me in the endgame, blundered and lost the game when up a ton of material. course im not even 1000. i imagine higher rated players wouldnt make the kinds of mistakes me or this guy made, especially not with that endgame.
i lose a lot of my games from resigning after i blunder a piece in the opening
loveswesterns wrote:
I am a beginner. I lose most of the time. I try my best, but it's demoralizing to keep losing. Once I have an opponent who is easily maneuvering me, I find it angers me. Not that I blame the person, but it magnifies my own inadequacies as a beginner. I have only played 34 matches, but I have yet to find an opponent who makes a blunder, even though I usually play others with a low rating. I resign to keep myself from getting so discouraged I don't want to play chess anymore.
A better statement would be "I have yet to catch a blunder my opponent made". Your opponents have made many blunders but like almost any other player you've been missing many of them. I remember directing at a big money tournament where one guy was running the table in the U1600 section and people were saying he had to be cheating. Looking at his games determined that he was making the type of mistakes that a 15xx player would normally make and that his opponents were missing them just like many 15xx players would be expected to miss them.
The analysis engine in the chess.com app may not be state of the art but it is well capable of helping you find those mistakes by either player and thus showing the type of tactics you can learn to avoid or exploit.
One of the main reasons to resign is to ,make you a stronger player. I learned when to resign when I was 8 years old.