Beginners and Early Resignations

Who said I can't block with a pawn?

Not at all. A beginner would know to manually castle and black would be just down a knight.

Honestly, when I made a huge mistake, I don't think it's useful to continue the game. I prefer resign and then starting again and learn of my mistake.

Of course, if my mistake is for example losing a bishop at the beginning of the game, i have no reason to resign. But if I give for free a queen in a critical moment, why continue. But I don't like to resign because resign = loosing = loosing ELO points

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Really? then why didn't you say in your comment that I could block with a pawn?

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I was taught never to resign, especially in the beginner/medium range. Sometimes I do though, when I don't see a win to save both of us some time. Sometimes I resign and look at the game later only to see that I had opportunities that I didn't see at first. I've regretted resigning sometimes and wish there was a way to undo that action if the opponent agrees. I only play correspondence it that can take days off a game. Once I lost my queen, but it was in the beginning of the game. In the middle game I managed to get my opponents queen due to a blunder on his part. You never know what happens until you're a master.

Well, I said if you block with your knight or bishop "out of habit" (meaning without thought), implying that blocking with those peices are not good moves. I made the assumption everyone reading the post was aware that blocking with pawn or queen or moving the king were also ways to get out of check.

My point really was that your opponent had not yet lost his/her knight. That peice was still on the board, and it made sense for them to see if they could induce you make a move that would make the loss of the knight hurt less, rather than resign before they had even lost the knight.

oh alright.

I had a game like 2 days ago where I was completely lost, and my opponent decided to make a bunch of queens just to make fun of me, and then stalemate occurred.

I resign when the prospects of winning/playing for a draw become too small. Against a lower-rated player I am less inclined to resign when I blunder a rook for example or when I am down a couple of pawns in a theoretically lost endgame. Another factor you should consider is your time, do you have any prospect of flagging your opponent?

An example:

In this position (move 38 if the diagram doesn't start there) I was down 4 pawns and black is completely winning here. I could have easily resigned here as I had a lot less time than my opponent too. However I still saw one winning possibility: If my knight were on e6 Rf8 would be mate. So I went for it and it worked out rather well. 

Another example: 

From move 32 onwards white is completely winning. In fact if white had gone 47. b3 they would have won. The reason I pushed for this is because my opponent was lower rated than me. i.e. I saw good prospect in pushing for a draw. 

However if I blunder a piece in the opening vs someone with a 1600 rating with no good prospect I'll happily resign. 

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That's unless if it's a pawn or a minor piece

Idk why my 1400 opponent thinks that I can't checkmate with a king and a queen, because he kept playing on