Resigning as soon as you've lost your queen

Like "DartFrog04" have pointed out allready :

After "sacrificing" the black Queen, the road is open for

black Bishop ( at c5 ) to take pawn at f2, and check mate.

- non ?

" Sometimes giving up too soon is too soon ..".

...

Here's another game where I resigned after blundering my queen.

LOOOL

newengland7 your second game bxf2+ followed by ke2 bg4+ would win the queen back

I DO NOT AGREE THAT IS NECESSARY RESIGN IF YOU ARE A QUEEN

THIS GAME IS ABOUT HOW TO WIN A GAME IF YOU ARE DOWN A QUEEN !!!!

THAT IS IT !!  I CAN WIN A GAME IF I BLUNDER AND LOSE A QUEEN AT THE BEGGINING.

SEE THE ANALYSIS OF THE GAME IN THE LINK BELOW, GAME AT THE POST  #84

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/the-most-interesting-game-of-chess-was-played-here-in-chesscom?page=5

canadaprodigy845,

Did you know that at move 10 after Bxf2+ Ke2, Bg4+ Kd3 that there's an even better move than Bxd1? Particularly, Nb4#?

yes i was lost battery on my ereader didnt have time to post the mate

so hard to type on this #poor internet connection

Try playing against any chess engine trading a queen for a pawn/minor piece/rook with no compensation and you'll notice that the evaluation meter shows that the engine is winning by outstanding numbers and you're just hopeless/losing in all variations. The thing is, a Queen is the most powerful/forcing piece in the game, and is known for being the key for most succesful mating attacks, as well as being able to add pressure to multiple targets at the same time.

resign after losing your queen is not learning how to play at all

lihuelp is absolutely right. Sometimes we need to look at the imbalances in the position before we resign. I've made blunders and still gone on to win the game anyway.

By the way, I've just played a game against an opponent and we're in an endgame where I have a rook against a bishop. He moves his queen where it can simply be taken and resigned after I took it with my rook.

Dear Marco, I can perfectly read you post without the

BIG RED letters, please. And can enjoy your views on

the "addictive" potential of chess, like any "game".

Like for any of us, the ego is your best friend, and

possibly your own worst enemy, sort of speaking...

Or anything, and all, inbetween ..

Keep on challenging others, and yourself .

Sometimes when my plan backfires I try to force a queen swap. Sometimes it works. I think it throws off some players.

This have been one of the traits, or tricks, of Magnus Carlsen.

Get rid of those complicating Queens, and grind on from there ...

:- )

It all depends on the rating of your opponent. 1000? Go right ahead, there's a good chance they blunder the material back. 2000? Not a chance you're going to come back. It's online, so rating doesn't matter. If you drop your queen, you'll learn more by resigning and asking for a rematch.

Obviously, if you have good counterplay for the queen, play until that counterplay is gone, but a queen for a piece is, in most positions, worth resigning.

So says the 898.  Up until I was ~1300 I agreed with you. In tournaments it still takes a lot for me to resign. Online though, it's not worth your time once you have a >1300 rating. It's not as though my online rating matters at all, I'm just playing for practice. Is forcing someone to play out a K+Q+5 pawns vs. K+N+6 pawns endgame really going to help you?