resigning when queen is lost?
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Why do people do this online? It never happens OTB...or rarely. Is it people out to make a quick mate and when it doesn’t pan out...they bow out? Seems illogical to me to resign will all of your pieces but a few pawns and one queen down?
Because any half decent player, will absolutely crush u If they are a queen up
I can understand the disadvantage but i dont understand why. Resigning is no worse than trying even though you are getting slaughtered. They may blunder...and sometimes they do. Then the game gets interesting
Im at the 800-1100 level. People blunder. It happens. Alot
I blunder alot also, often on simple miscalculations and obvious traps
Yeah but there’s no point playing on when ur just a clear queen down
Even at 800 when blunders are plentiful from both sides
In ur second to last game ur opponent hung a knight and an exchange in one move and u didn’t notice
A reasonably decent player will be able to win 99% of the time with a queen advantage. (No idea about the actual odds - I just pulled the 99% out of my back pocket.) So the player with the queen disadvantage has to ask himself, is he willing to suffer through 99 losses (defending a bad position to boot) for that one time in a hundred that he pulls out a draw or a win being a queen down. Most people would choose to avoid the psychic trauma of playing on.
I would agree with 99% but what do I know
ak472g wrote:
Why do people do this online? It never happens OTB...or rarely. Is it people out to make a quick mate and when it doesn’t pan out...they bow out? Seems illogical to me to resign will all of your pieces but a few pawns and one queen down?
What world do you live in? Almost all OTB games end in resignation.
I have used my Queen as a bait for a forced checkmate. However, a "blunder" is a different ballgame against a decent opponent...however, (lol) if i blunder my Queen and I have 1 minute against his 30 seconds, I need to see his checkmating skills.
ak472g wrote:
Im at the 800-1100 level. People blunder. It happens. Alot
The lower your opponent's rating, the more reason to play on.
The faster the time control, the more reason to play on.
However, for an OTB game with a reasonably long time control, and against someone who doesn't often drop pieces, it's sometimes more prudent to resign to save your energy. An added benefit during a tournament is that you can rest up for the next round.
I've just blundered my queen in a daily game vs a 1750 player. After allowing him to trap it I had to lose it for a rook. I'm playing on whilst the pawn structure is closed and there are other pieces on the board but I am convinced he will be able to win eventually. I won't resign though until he proves it.
Strangemover wrote:
I've just blundered my queen in a daily game vs a 1750 player. After allowing him to trap it I had to lose it for a rook. I'm playing on whilst the pawn structure is closed and there are other pieces on the board but I am convinced he will be able to win eventually. I won't resign though until he proves it.
Well, yeah, but a queen for a rook is basically *only* a rook down. 
Yeah so it's dead lost basically. But I never resign until there are zero chances for me.
And a rook down at that level on an end game is a lost game...99.9%
You're kidding, right? Up a full queen, yielding zero compensation, you'd have to be really bad at chess to even lose to Stockfish 8.
Well, im not great or good at chess. It just didnt make sense to just give up. Most of the time its in blitz when they try to use a scholars mate or danvers opening (attack idk what its called). When i said OTB i mean locally here. Not rated. I live in a dead area for actual chess players OTB. I get what i can get. I can see the disadvantage against a solid player...still. Anything can happen Right?