Stop resigning!

What's the deal with so many people resigning after a handful of moves? Just had a guy resign after 9 moves just because he lost his queen. I'm under 500 elo - it's not like I'm unlikely to blunder a piece myself later in the game. Some of my most rewarding wins have come after me making silly mistakes.

It's like some people don't want to learn. Bit frustrating to be honest! I hardly ever resign. Even K+R versus K - at this level I am playing for stalemate no matter what.

Well, some people don't want to defend positions that are objectively lost, regardless of whether you are capable of converting, or not.

But being down a queen after 9 moves isn't objectively lost, surely? Unless you're playing someone much stronger than yourself.

well just accept their resign.. later on 1300, people still resign for mere rook capture... play rapid 20minutes or more to meet more serious player, they dont resign often.. they wanna learn just like us

At 500, you don’t have to resign; however, at master level, you should because there aren’t that many mistakes, and it’s more respectable.

Grandmasters resign sometimes.

Are you trying to teach them?

The notion that grandmasters resign sometimes, therefore I am suggesting in some way that I'm equal or superior to a grandmaster for criticising fellow 500 elo beginners who resign, is utterly comical.

If you resign every time the game looks like it isn't going your way, how are you supposed to learn?

There's nothing to learn from swindling. 

Learn from how you became losing in the first place. It is pointless to continue if you are completely lost. You would not resign down a bishop, but if you are down a queen, you would.

I would not typically resign if I'm down a queen early in a game. And that has proven to be a largely winning, or at least drawing, strategy. The game where I am down a queen early on, might very well be the same game where I'm up a rook in an endgame I ultimately win. PuffyFoot you are provably wrong unless you are really saying that there's nothing to learn from practising an endgame where I'm up a rook (for example). In which case, I humbly suggest you might be wrong.

Who said anything about blundering 3 times? I am, at the risk of repeating myself, talking about resigning after nine moves just because you blundered a queen.

i always resign right after i blunder a piece unless i'm feeling angry at myself or whoever i'm playin against.

No one under 1400 should resign unless down a rook or more with no counterplay. That's the reasoning I use.

being down a queen on move 9 is definitely completely lost lol. even being down a piece, or a pawn or two sometimes makes the position completely lost

what about a rook? I generally don't care how much material I'm down if I have chances...

notice the sometimes. of course every position is unique, but this post is obviously referring to someone blundering their queen in the first stages of the game

I can see both sides here.  It's pretty tempting to resign if you lose your queen early, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.  But especially for us beginners or novices, anything can still happen, and the person that's up a queen could get overconfident and make some blunders of their own.  If it's me down a queen, I'm going to keep trying to find the best move and see if I can't find a fork or a pin or something to turn things around.  I found a checkmate a while ago when things looked pretty bad for a while, and it was one of my most satisfying wins.

The OP's 5th last loss - he resigned after just 7 moves after losing his Queen - rather hypocritical - show a bit of fight!

I was in a completly losing position yesterday, but played on just for fun to see how it goes. Made a comeback, won and my opponent was tilted and said 'Run, Forest,Run!'😂😂 I would have missed that cool experience ifvi would have just resigned.