Wrong to resign

I'm just new to chess but I never understand why anyone ever resigns. At any level. Even great players blunder, and no one ever sees everything.

You do seem to have an advantage with that move. He could have done something less predictable than protecting the queening like checking your king away from the pawn with the knight.

But you had a rook and a passing pawn. Don't resign ever! I guess that's not chess etiquette. But hey, even that guy Kasparov can sneeze and knock over his king.

Thanks for the info! I guess it was too early to resign, whatever happened. But wouldn't 3.Rb1 be a move that gives me more play? it makes that 3...Ba7 can be answered by 4.Rb7 with more chances of victory?

Thanks Paul! I had resigned because I thought he would queen next go, and it's just looking at it later I realised this was not the case. I'm more careful about resigning now though!

I don't think resigning was wrong. You thought you were irretrievably lost. That's a pretty good reason to resign.

The mistake was incorrectly evaluating the position.If you didn't resign, what would you have done?

You say you only noticed Ke2 later, so you would have played something else, which would have lead to the outcome you expected. So, with the information you had, resigning was the proper thing to do.

You have a point rooperi, but this move is not in the least subtle or anything, so I should have found it had I taken just another minute or 2.

This is a very odd endgame.  the strange thing is: Black wins the position! This is what the computer gives:

Thanks JMB2010. I just disagree with a few of the moves you gave to white:           

3.Kf1 not Kd2

After this, I disagree with most of your king moves too.

My idea in this situation would be to stay beside the promoting pawn, as to tie the black bishop to it's defense and make black's horse his only truly active piece, with the king.

kf1 and you lose for sure.

3... Kf3, threatening 4... Ng2   5... Ne3 mate if you try to push the pawn. Only way to stop it is to guard 2nd rank with rook, and you still lose by force.

3... kf3 
4. Rb2  Ng2
5 Re2  Ne3
6 Rxe3 Kxe3

Bishop stops your pawn and black queens

 Daltivic -

Could you clarify which moves you dissagree with, so I can analyze them more closely?

mtguy8787: I guess this shows I was right to resign, as long as he played some good moves. Thanks for the info, really useful!

JMB2010: After mtguy8787's extra input, I now rather agree with your moves. Thanks for the analysis. Seems this was really a lost position.

The position is lost for white if both players play with some degree of accuracy.

No, I wasn't actually under time pressure, just under the pressure of a passed pawn which I was sure would queen. But yes, I have had problems of time management before, thanks for the advice. Et merci!