Why Resign?


if your opponent does a mistake you can win or it can be a draw
You see what I mean, glamdring?
So? My opponent could decide he's bored and resign in a winning position or he could die at his computer mid-game. World peace could happen too. But I don't live my life for fantasies. One game of chess doesn't matter. If you jump out of your chair and get excited about winning because your opponent hangs all his pieces in a winning position then great. Unless I'm playing bullet chess I don't care though.

I resign when I make a move I didn't consider iykwim
Sometimes I try and calculate some lines, but then I am not totally satisfied or the position gets more complicated than I can handle at my level, and then I make a move I hardly considered because the other one didn't exactly work out. Then I usually see it was extremely stupid. Then I get mad. Then I quit. If I make a mistake that I thought was a good move when I played it, I will play on.

sree64 and i will not resign ever
and if you want to resign you cant chat in this room
Apart from all the games where both of you have resigned, making your points somewhat irrelevant!

sree64 and i will not resign ever
and if you want to resign you cant chat in this room
Apart from all the games where both of you have resigned, making your points somewhat irrelevant!
In online games resigning can be a bit ok.... but in real games I don't.

Real games last hours. If my opponent agrees to cut all that short and mate me within a minute then sure, why not!

If you make a move you didn't consider, then why don't you continue?
Basically, because I don't like playing like that (in games that there is time to consider your moves). I will obviously play by intuition in time pressure, and I am getting better at that, but it makes me mad about myself, if my getting "disappointed", because my main idea turned out not to work out, results in me just throwing a move out there.

That is true. I have analyzed a game where my non-considered move turned out to be much better than what I was considering but was unsure about the order of moves... which was what led me to make the other move. I resigned and hopefully now I have learned my lesson haha
But still most of the time they turn out to be bad moves. But yeah maybe I should play on at least a bit more and see what happens.