Pangrus wrote:
My opponent started off the game with an attempt at a Scholar's mate and I immediately blunder with pawn to g6 (I'm very new to chess and still trying to learn the ropes). Around mid-game, I am down to only one rook and five pawns and somehow managed to secure a back-rank mate on my opponent after he dominated the whole game and was telling me to resign in the chat. I felt like the game was lost most of the way through but I felt something in me telling me not to resign from this game and see if he could checkmate me.
That's great!
My opponent started off the game with an attempt at a Scholar's mate and I immediately blunder with pawn to g6 (I'm very new to chess and still trying to learn the ropes). Around mid-game, I am down to only one rook and five pawns and somehow managed to secure a back-rank mate on my opponent after he dominated the whole game and was telling me to resign in the chat. I felt like the game was lost most of the way through but I felt something in me telling me not to resign from this game and see if he could checkmate me.