The best advice I saw on resigning is, only resign a position if you could win it 100% of the time against the best player in the world with 30 seconds.
Is it courteous to resign in a lost position?
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Aug 16, 2023
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Eadwig2 wrote:
It all depends on the situation, the position, the time control, the opponent.
Also, I believe if you don't resign in some positions you can get a warning from chess.com for stalling?
It's not stalling if you keep playing moves
Aug 16, 2023
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#24
At higher rated levels, about after 1700, when you are down a piece or more you should just resign. Don't waste you and your opponent's time by playing up a completely lost position.
However, if your opponent has a nice checkmate, you should let them play it instead of resigning and not allowing them to get the chance. That is good sportsmanship.
Aug 16, 2023
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chess_olie wrote:
At higher rated levels, about after 1700, when you are down a piece or more you should just resign. Don't waste you and your opponent's time by playing up a completely lost position.
However, if your opponent has a nice checkmate, you should let them play it instead of resigning and not allowing them to get the chance. That is good sportsmanship.
Even when I'm a piece down in rapid, I still save (or my opponents throw) about 25% of those positions (and vice versa). If it's easy (like K+4P vs K+P), then I'll resign. If I can see some way that I could blunder this with the colors reversed, I keep playing.
Just like in my kingdom, I won't back down in chess until my last piece falls!
Aug 16, 2023
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ricorat wrote:
The best advice I saw on resigning is, only resign a position if you could win it 100% of the time against the best player in the world with 30 seconds.
I've used a similar rule of thumb, although I specified "Stockfish" rather than the best player in the world, and I didn't include the 30-second rule.
But it also depends on the quality of you opponent. If you've blundered yourself into a dead lost position against a very low level player, they will sometimes blunder badly enough to let you back into the game.
Aug 16, 2023
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#30
HenryUrbanek wrote:
You should resign unless you have some stalemate chance, but otherwise definitely resign
I always do that
like I took 20 seconds to find this one and it worked.
https://www.chess.com/game/live/84450200589
Aug 17, 2023
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#31
nciSquared wrote:
HenryUrbanek wrote:
You should resign unless you have some stalemate chance, but otherwise definitely resign
I always do that
like I took 20 seconds to find this one and it worked.
hilarious your opponent wanted to make 5 queens but it was stalemate! it was rapid too, but they got so excited they pre-moved!
Aug 17, 2023
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#33
MGleason wrote:
ricorat wrote:
The best advice I saw on resigning is, only resign a position if you could win it 100% of the time against the best player in the world with 30 seconds.
I've used a similar rule of thumb, although I specified "Stockfish" rather than the best player in the world, and I didn't include the 30-second rule.
But it also depends on the quality of you opponent. If you've blundered yourself into a dead lost position against a very low level player, they will sometimes blunder badly enough to let you back into the game.
Exactly, if I’m down a queen against someone a lot lower rated than me, then I also probably wouldn’t resign there too
Lamborgini100 wrote:
What does lol mean?
laugh out loud, [removed - MG]
It all depends on the situation, the position, the time control, the opponent.
Also, I believe if you don't resign in some positions you can get a warning from chess.com for stalling?