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ANoteableOpponent wrote:
Thank you guys for the responses, as for the advice, I do look over my games after playing them, but in the game mentioned by response #4 HeckinSprout, I obviously didn’t see the fork, and even if I did, when I looked over the game in analysis white can play Qe3 and then taking the forked knight is a losing mistake because whites queen, other knight, and bishop get an attack on my king. So even if I did see it I would still lose. You first have to first trade off other prices before taking that knight is safe. Besides that specific game. Part of the reason I resign when I make an error isn’t just about anger, it’s also me trying to be practical, I don’t want to spend 20 minutes on a game that I have a less than 50% chance of winning, just to lose. So why humor a lost cause? And even if I do win, it hurts to know that the win was “undeserved” ie: I only won because my opponent didn’t capitalize on their advantage. But I suppose I’ll try to be a bit more “tenacious” as one response put it, but still, blunders make me feel stupid and not want to play.

"Practical" towards what end? Towards teaching yourself to reject possible learning experiences? A mistake is a mistake because of how it transforms the game; if you resign before you even see what the game turns into, you can't conclude "I have less than 50% chances of winning" in good faith. Not when your information is simply not reliable. With that mindset, not even your wins will be useful to you. This is what becoming overly concerned with winning or losing does to someone.

If you've already lost in your mind regardless of what's actually happening in the game, then you're sabotaging yourself; it leads to losing more often than you normally would, not just in chess but in any other game. Seems to me you have to change what's inside before anything else.

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