Don’t be so quick to resign.

I personally don’t like to resign. I’d rather be checkmated or find a way to get myself stalemated. It just feels like quitting to me. I don’t know, maybe I’m the kind of person that thinks a captain should go down with his sinking ship. But there’s a few reasons why I say stay in the game.

1. The opponent could make a terrible mistake that allows you to win (has happened to me before)
2. The opponent may be bad at checkmating and end up stalemating, saving you some points for the draw (happened to me before)
3. When you resign, you’re not letting a fellow chess player get that “Killer Pawn”, “Killer Knight”, or killer etc. achievement (if that means anything to you)
4. And you are cheating yourself and your opponent out of practicing your end game tactics/strategies.

I think you are completely right. The only exception is, I think, when you are sure your opponent can do it without mistakes and there is nothing to learn from it.

If I have a lone king and my 1500 rated opponent has two rooks. That sort of stuff.

Do resign:
You save your precious time to analyze the game and learn from your mistakes

Agreed, you never know how the game is going to play out

I'm surprised by the number of opponents who have resigned early in a game after losing a minor piece. In those circumstances it's definitely worth fighting on.

But if it's late in the game and your opponent has a clearly winning position, I think it's disrespectful to make them chase your king all over the board. Resign gracefully and move on.

I just resign after I know I can't win without opponent playing a stupid blunder. I know I might have a chance to win but I hate winning that way, hoping for opponent to make a stupid blunder isn't what I want to do

i disagree shadow

I am 2300. I play on to make them flag or to stalemate

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.

One main reason players should learn when to resign is that it makes them a weaker player not to know when to resign.

loves almost all your opponents make bad moves.  To improve you need to recognize mistakes--yours and theirs.. 

It depends whether I want the game to end or not. If I blunder early on, I continue playing. If I blunder late in the game, I sometimes resign. If checkmate seems inevitable, I resign

I resign if there's no doubt I'm in a losing position, unless my opponent is low on time and I think I might be able to keep the game going until they time out.

sorry

I agree never ever give up till the scores are written on the scoresheet.

I strongly disagree

I am bad for resigning too early but I would rather save the time to analyze the game and move forward to the next one. I prefer to make up the loss with a couple wins.

I get your point though and respect as there are many times where I did not convert a winning position or draw by stalemate of my own fault. 

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. 

 

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.

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.