after a big blunder, resigning and then analyzing the game is best for learning. dragging the game out as long as possible and hoping your opponent blunders is best for passing the time. (Note: any rating gained by luck will eventually self-correct)
Why Resign?
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Mar 21, 2018
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#103
In a good smosition I wouldn't resign because I like good smositions.
Lost smositions aren't worth playing because no amount of smositional understanding can save you at this point.
Do you mean positional?
AntonioEsfandiari wrote:
after a big blunder, resigning and then analyzing the game is best for learning. dragging the game out as long as possible and hoping your opponent blunders is best for passing the time. (Note: any rating gained by luck will eventually self-correct)
Basic members only get 1 min analysis.
Mar 22, 2018
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#106
sree64 wrote:
Do you mean positional?
No, smositional. It is a more precise term for describing complex smositions in transitional smositional smositions.
Never heard of that.
Mar 22, 2018
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#108
Just google "smositional". chess.com is the most important source for learning about smositional chess.
Resigning tells that we are too afraid to continue the game.
Maybe most of the players resign in his last condition game losing their place by winning their game...they fed up to stay playing and boring with his bad game..Is it
Maybe most of the players resign in his last condition game losing their place by winning their game...they fed up to stay playing and boring with his bad game..Is it
armyhunter wrote:
Maybe most of the players resign in his last condition game losing their place by winning their game...they fed up to stay playing and boring with his bad game..Is it
Maybe. But grandmasters do this.
sree64 wrote:
AntonioEsfandiari wrote:
after a big blunder, resigning and then analyzing the game is best for learning. dragging the game out as long as possible and hoping your opponent blunders is best for passing the time. (Note: any rating gained by luck will eventually self-correct)
Basic members only get 1 min analysis.
What?? No i am not talking about the auto-analysis... do the SELF-analysis option. Maybe things are different where you are from but when a player talks about analyzing his game it usually means looking over his own game from beginning to end looking for improvements, not clicking a button for a computer to tell you a CAPS score.
sree64 wrote:
Resigning tells that we are too afraid to continue the game.
Resigning for me means I am afraid to waste my time. Explain how playing on in a lost position is more instructive than analyzing your mistakes and starting a new game?
One of the big problems with NEVER RESIGNING... is... humans typically learn well by PAIN. If you get LUCKY by coming back from a terrible blunder, you have dampened the memory of your mistakes and you have cheated yourself out of the pain that your blunder SHOULD have caused, and therefore you are more likely in the future to make the mistake again than if you had just resigned and analyzed. 
The rating you might gain from stubbornness is only temporary as you didn't get any stronger from your opponent blundering. Bullet chess is different though. I hope you aren't talking about bullet chess. I wouldn't advocate resigning in bullet (without increment) unless you are clearly getting mated and they have plenty of time left.
Postafi wrote:
Chess is an excellent spare time activity.
That is for players who take chess as a hobby. But what about professional players?
It’s better than resign in good moments
Well, it's a mathematical fact that you spend longer on each game if you never resign so that would either mean fewer games or more time spent playing the same number!
This shows that you spend less time on chess.com.