Resign after blunder?

Do you resign after a blunder?   
I consider it bad form to continue to drag out a game when down a piece.  The flip side is that my opponent may also blunder if I continue, but what is the point?  Then I develop the Habit of the Sloppy Game.   

It depends for me,if it's Correspondence chess i resign but on  blitz or under 15 minutes i will usually try to fight on but usually i am pretty respectful about resigning 

I usually play on about 5 moves if it is a minor piece blunder, to see if I have any shot at coming back. then I resign if I don't think so, but not as often in tourney games. rating also is a factor of wheher I resign or not

t is too much of anxiety if you do not resign. One does not want to drag a disease with no hope.

I resign immediately when the following are true:

1) I believe I'm lost and
2) I believe my opponent is good enough to prove it and
3) I believe he can prove it without difficulty.

For example if I drop a piece against a beginner it's no big deal.  If I drop a piece against a master but the position is still messy, I wait until my chances have disappeared and the win is simple.

Often, yes.

I try to resign before I blunder

When you put it that way it makes me want to resign more often.

If you want to resign, then resign. Why do you need reassurance?

I don't get resigning in correspondence, lol. It's just 5 seconds of your times per move pushing wood, and you give your opponent some practice. :)

I usually resign when I am a rook down. I have come back from losing a minor piece, but a rook is pretty fatal.

Sure, its only 5 seconds of drudgery, but 0 seconds is better.

 Well, perhaps looking at it from a different perspective makes it a lot better for me. I just see it as another learning experience - I've "lost' anyways, so why deprive my opponent a good game for him? Ironically, I would usually resign in a regular, non-correspondence game.

There are times that I will play it all the way out.  There are times that I will resign.  It has more to do with my mindset and current needs out of game than anything else.  If there is something pressing IRL and I am already losing, I will resign.  If I'm playing a lot of corespondance games, enough that it takes me more than an hour to make all my moves and I'm losing badly against somebody that is +500 rating on me, yeah I might resign then as well.

I try not to resign very often though, not until I can imagine the person on the other side saying "common buddy, give it up, you've lost" and I agree with them, which usually means late end game, or unstoppable mate.

Before then, there is much to learn for both players.  It is a different experience to play for a draw, but it is a skill that can be learned, and it takes good practice.   It also takes practice to avoid letting an advantage get to your head and make you play sloppy.  I would not deny my opponent of that either without reason.

That's funny!

I try to get my opponent to resign before I blunder.

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(unless it is a blunder that makes you want to slap yourself, resign immediately and go somewhere private so that you can slap yourself)

I use the very same principles but add another

4) I'm disgusted with myself, don't care if I have any remaining chances, and just don't want to look at my blunderous ruined position one second longer than necessary. It's time to go home and listen to "McArthur Park"

Hehe, those were more my tournament reasons -- in a club game I may resign or offer a draw out of disgust for a poorly played game

Online if I'm completely winning and now they're taking 20-30 seconds on the next move, I'll resign just to end the game that's no longer a game.

Yes but it is Nice to your opponent who has to spend those times going through his queen and rook vs your king.

I also agree. I see no need to drag out a hopeless position with no chances of counterplay. I see it as a sign of respect for one's opponent; marking time to see if he will blunder away a win is a waste.

 Chess is a very hard game people play in the remote hope they might win. So if  I'm playing a player much better than me than i resign immediately.