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Just give up - your opponent will appreciate the points now, instead of a month later.
Jun 24, 2008
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If you're in a tournament and your game is one of the last ones, everyone else in the tournament will appreciate an end to the game. Especially in a multi-round tourney. If it's just you and your opponent, then I'm not sure it matters much.
When I took lessons briefly from a GM, he said that one should resign lost positions, because the types of thoughts you have in these positions have zero to do with chess. But that is when I was rated ~2000, so the advice makes sense. If you think you or your opponent still are enjoying the game and/or learning something, play on.
If you let losing bother you, you will not play your best game so you should resign. There would be nothing to be gained from playing on when you have the thought of losing gnawing away at you because that is all you will be able to think about. The game loses even it's educational value if you can't focus because the thought of losing is weighing so heavily on you.
hi i am fairly new to chess . com . and was wondering what the general view to resigning from a game was.
at present i am playing a game where i am in a position where to win would be almost impossible but for bad play on my opponents behalf, whom i must admit after asking him how he felt, probably feels the same as me in that resigning takes away the feeling of finally c/mateing somebody after a very good and well fought game, however i can also see some peoples view that to play on when you know you are beaten (down to pawns versus rooks) is a bit of an insult to your respective opponent