Hi. New to chess.com. I have played 4 games in which I have lost my queen through silly mistakes. My question to the wider community is if your opponent has a queen advantage, even with other pieces matching, can victory still be plucked from the wreckage? In 3 of my encounters.... not! Fourth ongoing but now considering the decent thing is to resign in such situations!  Any views out there!

Yes, it's reasonable to resign if you're a full queen down with no compensation. Our ratings profit more from using that time to recooperate and study tactics.

[Update] In response to later posts, intermediate-level players can convert a queen-up game. I agree, if your opponent is new to chess, under uscf 1200, or much, much worse then playing on makes some sense. I've given beginners queen-odds and won before.

Playing without a queen is a tough job,but according to me there is a chance of winning:

* provide a possition of double check and equal the forces

*trap the queen ,but mostly by using knight and pawns.involving other figures doesnt allow you to use them for any plan

*isolate the queen leading it at any side and position you figures for mating the king that well for not giving the chance to the queen having any moves more than 2 squares.

Sorry for not having the chance to attach some pictures,but i play mostly in other sites and am a newbe in here.Thats why i dont have any PGN-s.

I wouldn't resign in most situations just because I lost my queen, unless it's a casual game.  You can still pull off a perpetual check or similar "dirty chess" manuver  and draw :)

Depending on who you're playing. If you're playing someone below 1200, they might make an error and drop their queen or lose a lot of material. If you're a beginner playing other beginners, don't resign--you will almost always have a chance.

I say it depends on your rating. Personal, I would resign but if two player have a 600 rating then you'd still have a chance it win so no need to resign.

It also depends on how heavily they depend on it, and also how heavily you depend on it, but yes, it does make it a hard uphill slog...

Beginner playing against beginner should never resign, there always will be another blunder or stalemate, but it's probably a good idea to resign when beginner plays essentually stronger person. I survived a few times playing online against much weaker opponents without queen.

i hate playing against players who quit after a Queen loss, we aren't GMs. I could easily blunder it away. Play on!

I view it as a challenge and try at the very least for a draw.

Thanks. While I accept that playing lower ratings may provide hope, (though I probably only a few games away from such myself), waiting for an opponent to slip up tends to take away from my own perceived prowess! (GM in my own mind) In the main I reckon against an evenly matched opponent resign is the way to go.

I accept the challenge of it but after 3 head banging attempts, better to conserve energy and try again.

Of course everything depends on the position, but I wouldn't resign automatically. There may be a chance to even the score.

The bigger question is why you're losing your queen in the first place. Perhaps you are bringing her out too early.

In my most recent game my opponent blundered away their queen early on, though I wasn't up by a huge amount since I lost my knight to a failed sac to pull their king out, and black also had a nice control of the center with their two knights in position.

I ended up blundering away my own queen later on (and a bishop, and a knight...)  so I resigned myself. There's no telling what will happen if someone is playing chess in the early morning before they are fully awake!

I think it depends on multiple variables -

1. compensation: Do I have two rooks / Three pieces for the queen? Do I at least have two pieces for the Queen and the initiative?

2. time pressure  - There is no point in playing on a queen down without any material compensation in a Correspondence/Turn based game but if you are playing blitz there is a possibility that your opponent may blunder back the queen.

3.Co ordination of pieces/initiative. 

Sorry to cut my post short guys I gotta get back to work.... will finish later

Sometimes losing the queen can be the key to turning things around in your favour.  As the second-most valuable piece, people often treat the queen as a "second king" and defend it at all costs.  If yours is already gone, you can make some great headway in harassing your opponents' queen, since you don't need to protect yours anymore and, if you're smart, set yourself up for a move on the real target...  My first really decisive victory, I had put my queen in a terrible bind, and sacrificed her for a mere pawn, which in the end gave me the win.

I rely perhaps too much on my queen.  If you're like me then you better use those backdoor knight tricks or really know how to weild two rooks if the queen ever goes down.

Knight assassins are the best tool agaisnt the royal family.

If you didn't intend to lose your queen you probably have no compensation. You could play on hoping for blunders by your opponent or a win on time, but it would probably serve you better to resign, figure out why you lost the queen, then retry looking to avoid the same mistake.

You should never give up, I just pulled off a fantastic win where I was down a piece.  

Here is a game of mine where I was down a queen and won-

You weren't exactly a queen down in that game, jdilley.  You had a Rook, Bishop, extra pawn, and a very mobile set of passed pawns in compensation.  By move 28 there, I very much prefer Black's position.

You weren't a queen down, jdilley (you had something close to full compensation).