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You are never going to improve as a player by resigning as soon as you lose your queen
Mar 12, 2022
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#2
MikeV717 wrote:
You are never going to improve as a player by resigning as soon as you lose your queen
Possibly. https://www.chess.com/game/live/38175255055?username=mikev717
Mar 12, 2022
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#4
Theres a 99% chance the opponent will hang there queen a few moves later 300-700
MikeV717 wrote:
You are never going to improve as a player by resigning as soon as you lose your queen
1. Hypocrite
2. Some people don’t wanna suffer through an entire game they’re probably going to lose.
Mar 12, 2022
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#6
InsertInterestingNameHere wrote:
MikeV717 wrote:
You are never going to improve as a player by resigning as soon as you lose your queen
1. Hypocrite
2. Some people don’t wanna suffer through an entire game they’re probably going to lose.
True. The fun also goes away if I lose my queen.
Mar 12, 2022
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#7
Alramech wrote:
MikeV717 wrote:
You are never going to improve as a player by resigning as soon as you lose your queen
Possibly. https://www.chess.com/game/live/38175255055?username=mikev717
Lol
The less pieces you have, the less options you have, and playing waiting moves waiting for your opponent to destroy you isn’t my idea of fun. (same with closed positions but I tolerate them.
Mar 12, 2022
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#9
Tho resigning in endgames is not recommended, since some low rated players dont know how to checkmate with Queen and King.
Mar 12, 2022
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#11
Resign when your position is lost AND you feel that there is nothing more you can learn by continuing this game.
Mar 13, 2022
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#12
blueemu wrote:
Resign when your position is lost AND you feel that there is nothing more you can learn by continuing this game.
True.
MikeV717 at your level maybe
Mar 13, 2022
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#15
Well, resigning when you hang your queen is certainly appropriate, but at this very low rating level, it might be interesting to continue to play and see if the opponent makes his own monumental blunder. Nothing to lose except the game, which you've pretty much lost already.
Mar 13, 2022
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#16
MSteen wrote:
Nothing to lose except the game...
... and the TIME that you spend playing it. Time that might be more profitably used starting a NEW game, from which the player might learn something.
Ok maybe my post wasn't worded well. Let's try again. I am by no means a very good chess player. I am still learning the game. Don't get me wrong, I am guilty of my own statement. There have been times I make a completely stupid move with an agressive queen and it cost me and out of frustration I resign. I have also been in situations where I realize that I am in way over my head with a superior player and don't want to waste his/her time. My point is that I have found that I learn more by fighting through this( even in a loss) then simply quitting. The post was not meant to be condescending in any way. Just an observation.
MikeV717 wrote:
Ok maybe my post wasn't worded well. Let's try again. I am by no means a very good chess player. I am still learning the game. Don't get me wrong, I am guilty of my own statement. There have been times I make a completely stupid move with an agressive queen and it cost me and out of frustration I resign. I have also been in situations where I realize that I am in way over my head with a superior player and don't want to waste his/her time. My point is that I have found that I learn more by fighting through this( even in a loss) then simply quitting. The post was not meant to be condescending in any way. Just an observation.
As ratings go up, players usually make fewer mistakes in converting a queen-up (with little compensation) position. As such, resignations are more common at higher ratings.
So do you ever see those grandmasters videos where they lose a queen (or sometimes sac the queen on purpose) and keep playing and win the game?
Yes, I get it. They are good players, and all. But how did they learn that? Why can they defend when they are a queen down?
Could it be because they trained playing down material...?
Grandmasters never lose the queen on purpose. If they did, they wouldn’t be grandmasters. Whenever you see them lose a queen, they get compensation in return, or else they wouldn’t give away the queen.
If you’re talking about grandmasters playing on in a lost position as a challenge or something, yes that’s exactly it. They have experience, and they know the best moves to play, so they’re able to come back better than we can.