So i you look through any games before this last month or so, I use to resign pretty much any game where I blundered badly and then take a few min. to figure out why I made this move and a little bit because I was frustrated that I made a move like that for no reason whatsoever. My score suffered because of it, quite a bit. I mean it still rose because my really bad blunders pretty much went away.
Once I stopped resigning (though I still timeout because of internet issues) I thought "Damn, did all the good players just leave?" at first, took me awhile to realize that wasn't the case. I played 5 30 min games (30 min. is what I'm best at) on chessmaster (use it strictly to learn) and won each and every game. This was big for me because the last time I did so (right after I joined chess.com) I couldn't get past 1400 or so.
Now I've passed 1700. Don't get me wrong, I still blunder, generally speaking once per game. But I'm able to turn the weakness into a strength, couple of games ago I saw a knight sac to gain a queen or take out a rook, computer said it was a blunder then when my opponent blundered the listed moves for my opponents still had him lose a rook, what I failed to see is I could have kept a pawn to promote to queen but it was a horribly complex jumble of moves. Anyways, next stop is to get my score on chess.com up, but to me that really isn't important.
What I want to ask the chess.com community is this: Did you do this? Did you have a similar experience? Should I continue to resign and examine why I made the move (The resign part being for the "It's fresh in my mind" purpose)? And for anyone who didn't use this method, at about what rating did you start to visualize your strategies, I know "visualize" has a lot of different meanings so I'll clarify. To actually see the moves play out in your mind, versus just knowing that this piece moves here, and that piece moves there, etc.
There is no reason to resign just because the game is fresh. You resign only when you have concluded that you have no reasonable chance of drawing the game.
Since you are a relatively inexperienced player (with a 1000 blitz rating here on Chess.com (where is it you are rated 1700?), you can afford to stick around and make your opponents prove the win. Once you have lost 10 or more king versus rook and king endgames, you may choose to resign. (Of course, you will miss those occasional wins when your opponent disconnects, etc. but life is really too short to wait around for those things.)
One great thing about playing here is that the games are automatically recorded, so that you can always go back and look the games over. The computer analysis features have improved too, so that you can focus your attention on the part of your game that need work.
So i you look through any games before this last month or so, I use to resign pretty much any game where I blundered badly and then take a few min. to figure out why I made this move and a little bit because I was frustrated that I made a move like that for no reason whatsoever. My score suffered because of it, quite a bit. I mean it still rose because my really bad blunders pretty much went away. Once I stopped resigning (though I still timeout because of internet issues) I thought "Damn, did all the good players just leave?" at first, took me awhile to realize that wasn't the case. I played 5 30 min games (30 min. is what I'm best at) on chessmaster (use it strictly to learn) and won each and every game. This was big for me because the last time I did so (right after I joined chess.com) I couldn't get past 1400 or so. Now I've passed 1700. Don't get me wrong, I still blunder, generally speaking once per game. But I'm able to turn the weakness into a strength, couple of games ago I saw a knight sac to gain a queen or take out a rook, computer said it was a blunder then when my opponent blundered the listed moves for my opponents still had him lose a rook, what I failed to see is I could have kept a pawn to promote to queen but it was a horribly complex jumble of moves. Anyways, next stop is to get my score on chess.com up, but to me that really isn't important. What I want to ask the chess.com community is this: Did you do this? Did you have a similar experience? Should I continue to resign and examine why I made the move (The resign part being for the "It's fresh in my mind" purpose)? And for anyone who didn't use this method, at about what rating did you start to visualize your strategies, I know "visualize" has a lot of different meanings so I'll clarify. To actually see the moves play out in your mind, versus just knowing that this piece moves here, and that piece moves there, etc.