Hi all,
I used lichess games to try to answer the question "when should you resign?" once you start losing in a game (when is the game beyond repair?). I used lichess games with Stockfish evaluations and looked at our chances of coming back and winning the game for different amounts of negative Stockfish evaluations: https://web.chessdigits.com/articles/when-should-you-resign
I also looked at the effect of time control and opponent rating...
Hope you enjoy--if you have good ideas for future articles on Chess Digits or if you'd like to contribute, please let me know!
It is a very very interesting article. I thank you for your efforts. Try posting it on reddit if possible. It is indeed incredible that in a significant 8%-12% of games to come back despite being a queen or more down.
I suggest that you should not resign. You're opponent may blunder and draw/lose. Resigning means "Defeat when You could have won". Scan the position for moves before resigning. *THERE MAY BE A DEFENSE YOU DID NO SEE*
You're surrendering when you could call draw or even won!! Even in a one move checkmate, hope that your opponent may miss it or miss click or something... Even in a "Queen-and-king-versus-lone-king" position, you can still hope for a stale mate. I understood it when I was playing a game, resigning never helped you, but the OPPONENT.
P.S. - Some people resign before even moving thinking they will lose. DON'T DO THAT. It means you don't believe in yourself.
MY QUOTE -- " Resign is a word that is NOT in my dictionary"
[Hope people found this helpful :D)
Interesing. However, imo you should also define the goal of not resigning. What do we achieve by winning a game that was totally lost, eg. in which we blundered a Queen? Let's say we win 1/8 of such games. That makes 7 games waste of time, even total boredom (or agony for sore losers) playing a lost game, in order to get one point out of 8 games. Even the won game can be boring and you just happen to win on time. No need to die from boredom, better to start another game.
bruh i blundered a queen and a knight once and the opponent disconnected for some reason when they could have mated me in 3 moves
Resign when you are no longer enjoying the game.
Some people love it if they can swindle a victory and for them it may make sense to keep playing even if they will still lose 90% of the rest of the games. I prefer to play when there are chances on each side rather than the decision riding on a blunder, time out or disconnection and would rather start a new game than play out an almost foregone conclusion.
It's a matter of taste and anyone who thinks there is a 'right answer' is delusional.
#2 @euphoriousvictory thanks a lot for the comment. I did post on reddit. And yes I was surprised too to find that people win this often when the score is extremely negative...
#4 @ProposeBurgers I wholeheartedly agree with you 100%, that's a good way to think about it
@Patrizsche
The article is really interesting and good food for thought! One stat that I'm curious about that I wish I could read about is how the graph changes in time controls with increment vs non increment. Maybe a follow-up article? :D
@Patrizsche "Different people feel differently about resigning" - Fischer
There really sin't a solid answer to the question. In my opinion, if you want to play, keep playing. If not, you can resign.
The statistics were quite fascinating.
All the best
I think fisher conept is right because in the grandmasters if they blunder a knight is the early game they resign but in lower levels they so yeah.
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