why should i not resign?

almost everyone ive spoken to about chess seems to keep telling me not to resign, sure ive seen people turn games around but almost everyone ive played with doesnt really seem to blunder after my initial mistake, am i just too bad?

for instance i literally lost to premoving in this game

https://www.chess.com/game/live/72989633503

what could i have done?

Nixon had the same problem.

who is nixon?

which nixon are we talking about to begin with

Seriously, you should start doing the lessons. At low level play many people just keep playing past the point of where they may should have resigned. You never know when your opponent may make a blunder and you win. There is also the fact that they cannot see clearly that they are beat. In my opinion, at low level play you should play all the way to the end until it's totally obvious, or let your opponent have a checkmate, because it's nice to get a checkmate. Once you get into the mid levels it becomes much more obvious when you are beat, and you don't want to waste anybody's time.

🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, that's funny on your Nixon reaction. I sometimes forget I have an International audience, but I thought for sure everybody knew about him. He's pretty much the first American President to be thrown out of office for doing bad things. You should have a lot of fun reading about him.

The joke now is "I miss Nixon".

At your rating level, stalemate, draw by repetition, and draw by fifty move rule are all more likely than checkmate. That's why people tell you not to resign.

oh thanks

getting mated with a +5 advantage seems to be way more common than that

and does anyone have a guide for getting back up to 500 or something i just keep falling at certain times and have a really hard time getting back up

A draw was never an option for Nixon. His choices were: 1) resign, or 2) be impeached and removed from office. Republicans still had spines in the 1970s.

the weird part is that, whenever i see my friends/other people playing, who are around 1000-1200 their opponents usually make mistakes when theyre winning, which never seems to happen at all around my level, whats the reasoning for this

Don’t resign because your opponent May blunder as well. Stalemate is also possible. Make them checkmate you.

@soosybaka678 I'm no expert, but one thing that helped me get up to 1200 was making sure I wasn't making a blunder on each move. I'm not sure that there's any level where people don't make blunders. I analyzed a master game the other day and there were a few blunders in there. It's just that the masters make elegant blunders, while ours are sort of on the trash pile.

The mistakes and blunders are also relative to the position. They don't necessarily take into account overall strategy.

Look for my post "Not sure analysis is good for beginners", in the Beginner's forum.

@Ziryab 🤣 At least it wasn't a stalemate. He was forked but he wiggled his way out of it. He went on the lecture circuit and made millions. Started his career with $5000 worth of poker winnings.