Why you and me, as a beginners, should not resign.

I've had many such games. I don't resign unless checkmate is inevitable or I'm hopelessly low in material. Some players resign or leave as soon as they've blundered their queen. I think that finishing such games trains our resourcefulness and teaches us how to find the right moves in the future. 

-Spot-on BK201YI :-) 

I posted this recently - I made a huge blunder (as white) and Blacks queen gobbled up lots of my pieces. I was down 16 points ... but made a steady comeback to win checkmate with 1.6 seconds to spare. (10 min blitz ...with some blunders of course!) :-) 

Any beginner should not RESIGN because the other beginner will also make a blunder! ! !

Denver

I've been on both sides of this - occasionally coming back form being down, but more often getting some big advantage early the middle game, only to wonder 5 minutes later how all my pieces are coming off the board, and how I let such a good advantage disappear. 

Beginners should not resign even when behind by a queen. A terrible blunder by opponent is possible. He could hang his queen or miss a backrank mate.

imo it depends on what you are after:

a) if you are after elo points, then never resign, since there is always a strong possibility of the opponent blundering the almost lost for you game. The chances are even higher, since you keeping playing a lost game might be upsetting him, making him more prone to mistakes.

b) if your purpose is to become better, then it is better to resign. There is nothing to earn by waiting for your opponent to gift you back the game. You played bad and now it would be better to resign and analyze what you did wrong. The only case that might be OK to continue for some moves longer, is if you hang your queen, which is a huge mistake gifting your opponent the game. Thus, would be OK to see if he does the same (it happens, since blunders attract blunders) and then, you will have a nice game again.

that is what I believe and tournament players do exactly that, they resign. They don't pray for gifts.

Amazing recovery! I've had bad starts like that myself a lot, learning not to give up and find the comeback has lead to a lot of won games that otherwise would have been losses!

that's a good topic!

Always play out the game, anything can happen

Perhaps this will better drive the point home:

In 2001, Christopher Newton murdered his cellmate, Jason Brewer, over a game of chess. Brewer would resign his chess game against Newton every time a pawn was lost or the position looked bad. Newton tried to tell him not to give up and play the game out, but Brewer refused. After a month of playing chess and Brewer always resigning early without playing out the game, Newton finally had enough and strangled Brewer.

http://www.chessmaniac.com/