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Sam C posted an update
Online chess etiquette question: If you blunder your queen or another high value piece early in an online game, should you just resign? Is it fair to take up your opponent’s time after a horrendous mistake that you are unlikely to recover from?
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Personally, if I blunder the queen for free I’ll usually resign. I do this more out of self-interest than worrying about my opponent’s time. If I was able to at least get 2 pieces or a rook in the trade, I’ll keep going until I lose at least another minor piece. If I only lost a rook or a minor piece, I’ll keep playing. At my rating, my opponent is likely to blunder a piece back and that DOES happen often, but a full queen down is a bridge too far I think. Not to mention, it’s tilting to give away the queen and I personally think it’s better for my mental health to resign and take a break.
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@crashmondojrproton-me Thanks.
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If its a timed game, I usually evaluate how much time is left and decide if i can still possibly win on time. If your opponent is down to say 30 seconds and you have 1.5 mins, then you might be able to play defense and avoid trade offs to win. I don’t view that as unclassy. But if i blunder my queen really early in the game, i will sometimes just resign on the spot. I will say though that coming from behind and winning without a queen is very fullfilling. Sometimes you can even capture theres on a blunder and then you’re back to even.
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I usually keep playing. I’ve come back to win a decent number of games where I’ve lost a queen early. At lower levels, your opponent is just as likely to blunder their queen, or (more often) get careless and blunder checkmate. I’ve also lost games when my opponent has blundered their queen…
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Depends a lot on the rating level. My recommendation for 95% of people taking this course is DON’T resign. You’ll never win or draw a game by resigning.
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Never give up. Most of us low-rated chess players blunder. Most of us, really. The only game I gave up, I saw in the analysis that I would have delivered checkmate 2 moves later. I don’t give up anymore. I try to save myself in the endgame. It’s amazing how many players blunder in the endgame.
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