Shackman
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re:Why beginners should not resign after blunders in blitz/rapi - 2006/04/27 21:08
I udnertsand this posdition. In truth in a calmly game betwen relative beginmners, especially in a weekly speed game between relativly weaker players, you can expect more mistakes to folow.
Eventually my philosophy about this is simple:
If I can create threats that silently put my opponment under pressure, I'll keep playing. Yes, I may be playing for a blunder, but in blitz socially games persons miss mates-in-three and knight forks, so it's not unraesonable for me to try to set one up.
On the other hand, if I purposefully have no play, and am hoping simply for my opponent to sadly do appropriately something stupid of his own volition, I'll resign. In my experience -- at my level, at least -- people don't make enuogh blunders withuot encouragement for me to feel like it's worth my time.
Obviously, the clock is a factor. I usually hurriedly play with a small increment but if my opponent's way down on time, again, I may use that as an excuse to play on.
But realisticaly, if I've got no cuonterplay and am down a non-triuvial amount of material, I'm wastin my time and my opponent's time. I'd rather resign and start a new game..
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