Resigning in a winning position actually happened to me a couple of times. Almost every single one of these times, the only move to save the game was an obscure sacrifice or silent move that I had no chance of spotting because I could not even understand it after it had been presented to me by the engine.

@GAOMaster

Жыл бұрын

"TheChessGenie"

@TheChessGenie

Жыл бұрын

@@GAOMaster Everyone has once been below 1500.

@iansysoev9462

Жыл бұрын

@@TheChessGenie someone still is...

@V2_The_Machine

Жыл бұрын

i once resigned with M1...

@A.Singularity

Жыл бұрын

​@@V2_The_Machine me when the mate in 1 looks like I'm blundering my queen but it's actually being protected by the bishop i forgot about in an obscure corner

I was down a bishop but then the opponent disconnected. Wi-fi gambit is too good.

Resigning in a winning position is called the ultimate blunder.

Yes. It happened to me, me and my opponent thought he blundered a piece. I took it. I had actually blundered my queen to a knight fork. He resigned and missed it lol

@Tay10rd

Жыл бұрын

@brycepowell6639

Жыл бұрын

@@Tay10rd this was 1800 rapid on lichess. I was winning the whole time after an amazing attack. He just gave up 5 seconds too soon

My theory is either they missed Qh6 wasn't checkmate after Kh8 or maybe they thought after Kh8 Qg4 they are lost, which I actually can't exactly see myself how black stops it.

@AndrewB847

Жыл бұрын

After Qg4 (or Qf7), Black can win with Qxe5+, as Kh1 loses quickly to Qd5+ and anything else allows Black to exchange queens at least.

@Qoko88

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewB847 Perhaps worth mentioning after 3....Qd5+ 4.Kh2, 4....Bd6+ unleashes the bishop and wins the game as now White's forced to give up everything on g3. Not easy to see for either side tbh.

I have had to abandon winning games because my wife had urgent chores for me. Don’t judge your opponent too harshly. He may be henpecked.

@JebAlert

Жыл бұрын

There's a reason the queen is the most dangerous piece in chess.

@claytonbenignus4688

Жыл бұрын

@@JebAlert. Rotflmao 🤪!!!

@ethandowler4669

Жыл бұрын

This comment is so real-life 🤣

@TheBlobik

Жыл бұрын

The greatest benefit of having a wife: You have an excuse for EVERYTHING, just say that your wife wants it and everyone will accept that.

@CST1992

7 ай бұрын

@@JebAlert Yeah, she can checkmate her own king....

the amount of endgames i’ve resigned because i thought it was lost but it was actually a draw…

happened to me recently too. I had an end-game pin that would win material, but the opponent could get out of it with a check, coming out with an advantage. Instead they resigned because they assumed they would lose a piece.

This is why I never resign under any circumstances. I also got some people salty enough to chat to me saying "learn to resign" because I never resign in a probably (definitely) losing position.

@danielyuan9862

Жыл бұрын

Tell them "learn to win"

@FatherManus

11 ай бұрын

There is no point in resigning. All you are doing is removing the chance of your opponent blundering a winning position. You are leaving potential draws and wins on the table by resigning.

Had a moment like this in an endgame yesterday… we both kept blundering and he resigned when he had plus 64

Lol, Nelson This is me. I actually thought u were winning. You were playing with me.

@GoofyManMF

Жыл бұрын

BS

@Liam_The_Great

Жыл бұрын

prove it

@BrawlStarsPearl

6 ай бұрын

Not Real, prove it

My opponent resigned yesterday with my queen hanging. I was almost delivering the checkmate and that square was actually defended by the opponent's queen from far away.

If you go into game analysis, you can click best move in a position. Then you can also find the follow-up moves, so you should be able to see the sacrifice and why it's good.

I accidentally blundered my queen by taking a pawn and then my guy just resigned out of confusion.

Chess against Martin but after each move you have to roll dice 1 means Martin gets a pawn 2 means Nelson gets a pawn 3 means you have to move your king 4 means Martin drops a bomb on a random square and captures any of your pieces that is on it 5 means Martin gets a rook 6 means an extra turn for Martin

2:15 his keyboard resigns in a winning position

I´ve had my opponent resign in a position where he had forced M1 on board. Pretty hard to top that.

rip that guy

It is like winning a football match by an own goal .

Yes I have had opponents 'leaving" the game (all the annoying time). Sometimes my call would be that they would win.

yeah it happened to me yesterday. I thought I got a smothered mate but I forgot he can take the queen with the King. My opponent resigned without realizing my blunder. 😂

@Rudy137

Жыл бұрын

Ouch

@epiko0

Жыл бұрын

smothered mates can only happen with knights

@Rudy137

Жыл бұрын

@@epiko0 you can use your queen to bait it though

@GutsyClumsy07

Жыл бұрын

@@epiko0 Yeah I know that. You didnt get my point.

@epiko0

Жыл бұрын

@@Rudy137 he said he BLUNDERED his queen

The eval bar doesn't consider that he has HALF of your time left

I do find it interesting that I have see quite a few times where players did not see a random bishop just hanging around and happened to be able to stop a checkmate attempt.

Funny how task manager just randomly pop up during the speed up

I resigned many games because something important happened, like someone rings on the phone or door, or whatever. But this position looks like yeah, probably overlooked position.

Maybe the opponent really needed to use the washroom and was being kind instead of flagging

Mom called „Computer time is over“

2:07 how do you feel about a positional sacrifice Nxb5 here (after trading on f6) Gives you two connected outside passers and stops the threat of the bishop skewer!

The position turns into a minefield after that Rg1+. Even beyond the first two moves, black's advantage comes down to some sharp maneuvering that he just may not have seen.

Something like this happened to me recently. I was in a losing position -6 or something. So I hit the resign button and a few milliseconds before I pushed the button, my opponent blundered a whole piece, putting me into a winning position, lmao.

One of my games: Me: starts playing opening Opponent: resign

1n 1933, Flohr resigned a game against Grob that was similar to this. Grob had a seemingly unstoppable mate... that could actually be stopped very simply, but Flohr's brain got paralyzed and he missed the defensive move. In the late '60s, the US was playing a team match against Austria. The first three boards had finished 1.5-1.5, leaving it up to the fourth and final board. Richard Verber was playing as White for the Americans. Material was even, but Verber's position was worse. The Austrian captured a minor piece, expecting Verber to recapture. Instead, Verber went after a Rook and won it, but in the process the Austrian captured a second minor piece, and Verber's knight was stranded. Verber found a clever way to free his knight, and the Austrian... resigned! He had forgotten about the initial capture that started the entire sequence. All his brain told him was that he had lost a rook, captured a minor piece, and then let Verber's knight escape. He was up two pieces for a rook, but thought he was the Exchange down!

This is why you shouldn't never resign a game.

@Rudy137

Жыл бұрын

Uhhhhhhh

@WhiteVanyo

Жыл бұрын

So... resign sometimes. I'll try it

@MemePiano69

Жыл бұрын

Grammar is important

@vaporizer2211

Жыл бұрын

Me who resigns because I have to go to class

@erezsolomon3838

Жыл бұрын

​@@vaporizer2211 don't play when you don't have time if you care for your rating

why didnt you play Bxf7+ in the opening, winning the piece back with b4? Looks very fun to play to me :D

“Pawnpusherschessaccademy” 😂😂

I can think of so many external reasons why the opponent would just want to end the game although they were winning.

White thought he checkmated black, but black resignes of winning position because of the rook attacks queen when I watched someone.

Yes, I pushed my queen to h8 going for back rank tactics+potential checkmate not realizing my opponent's queen was on a1. They also missed that and moved their king, allowing me to move my queen and turn the position to being heavily in my favor.

-4.88 is chess engine evaluation. Humans cannot find the best moves to win even with -4.88.

I once agreed to a draw when me and an opponent had traded all of our pieces; I completely missed the fact that I had three extra pawns

It's happened to me once. I was white, and stockfish said -60 :O. My opponent resigned because he thought I was going to promote.

this guys a step behind me, i dont even need the resign button to lose a winning position

I did the same. I "blundered" my rook and resigned. Even tho the rook sack was a brilliant move i didnt know about and was a forced mate in 5.

could you make a series like guess the elo?

there was once a guy who had mate in 1 but for some reason just resign because he thought he had no more attack

I never resign. I always lose before i get the chance.

He probably had to go answer doorbell or something

Maybe they got something urgent to do.

loved the keyboard repair section of the vid

one time I thought I had a forced promotion to a queen but it didn't work but my opponent thought it did work and tried to prevent it and got checkmated immediately

It happens to me sometimes and I'm usually on the other end. I resign thinking I'm completely lost and then I find out I was winning...

I personally have had to resign winning positions when an important phone call came in

I'm looking at this and I'm wondering what options he has. Only H7 or H8. If H7 then you check him on F7 with the queen and its game over. His only good move is H8 in which case you move the queen G4. ... so his options might be Q-F2+ which you block with R-G2 or QxP(h3)+ followed by QxQ+, RxQ+ KxR and you end up with a rook vs Bishop endgame which you should be better. OR... QxP(e5)+ and you move k to H1 ...now what does he do? I think youve got him here.

A guy I went against once resigned because he thought I had a mate 1 but I actually left my queen hanging and he didn’t see it and resigned

I accidentally offered a draw and then my opponent blundered a knight and accepted the draw. I managed to rematch and beat him though

When I’m at work (fire station) and get a call I resign games.

I resigned when I was winning BC I got fried livered but I forgot I could recapture the knight and still be up on material cuz I had more pawns

I resign sometimes in winning position when I have to go urgently and can't continue the game

Once I had a game like this. I was down 3 points of material and wanted an indirect queen trade (like a bishop attacking the queen is blocked by my knight which is attacking the opponent queen) and it was my turn to move. I used the knight to capture the opponent queen, and was expecting the bishop to capture my queen back for an equal trade. However, the opponent apparently did not see that he could capture my queen, and they decided to resign 3 points up.

maybe he was going to bed and was too tired of playing the rest of the game!

a few months ago my opponent resigned but he had mate in 2

Happy Easter to everyone Edited: could we get FIDE world championship tournament recap & analysis by Nelson?

I only was on the resigning side of this once, and it was because i was tilted and forgot that when my rook went down to block the check, it was a discovered check. I just thought i was mated

After black moved pawn to c6, you should have sacrificed your white bishop by taking f7 (with a check). After black moves out of check, you simply move to b4 and black's knight is lost.

his/her mom could have taken her/his device

did the board change colour halfway through?

I literally resigned when i had M1 yesterday I thought my opponent was gonna make a move and he will be winning but a second before I resigned he made a mistake hanging mate. That was... horrible 😞

Moral of this story: Never Resign

This happened to me, but I was the one to resign. My opponent had just one second on clock and I didn't saw it

Once my friend and me had to resign when we were totally winning to get off the bus

A couple of weeks ago I resigned on move 11 up a pawn with an evaluation of +1.81 as white after the black king failed to go to e6 to guard the knight in the fried liver attack. Did I resign when I was winning as well as your opponent?

They probably desperately had to go to the bathroom

I vaguely remember when I was new I played against someone and they resigned when I was losing my queen. Curious move

It happened to me yesterday i was move away from checkmating my opponent and he had backrank checkmate and he resign

My opponent was so nice because I didn’t resign when he was winning he ended up resigning even though having a mate in one. Moments like that give me hope for humanity

i always resign thinking i completely lost and stockfish says its +4 for me and finds some crazy move combination

One of my opponents recently played such a game against me! :) I resigned because I somehow thought that they captured my queen, only to then realize they hadn't. I thought I heard the noise of capture, and it could have only been my Queen. I was getting ready for a made in 2 or 3 maneuver, but "lost" my Queen (at least in my mind...). But it was a bullet, oh well...

I have one crazy story from my youth when I was playing in a 5-minute rapid game tourney. I was playing a guy who actually put in checkmate without knowing it. I didn't see it at once and suddenly he lost on time! So what would the rules have said if there had been a judge there? That we BOTH should lose?! :)

@ryanstejskal1506

Жыл бұрын

Checkmate ends the game, period. If a legal move is played that results in checkmate, the game is over and anything that happens afterward with the clocks is irrelevant.

To be fair to your opponent, it did look at first glance like you had a quick checkmate. It was definitely a mistake on his part though.

I’ve resign right when my opponent blunder a queen in one move without taking it before. So, yeah.

Suggestion: Cannonball chess Every two moves, Martin fires a cannon at a random square and if your piece is on that square it dies. But Martin's pieces have put on cannonball-proof armor so the cannonballs don't do anything to them. Also, both kings have the cannonnball-proof armor too. Good luck!

@tuxedobob2

Жыл бұрын

Might be more fun without the restrictions.

when i was 600 i remember i had a position in which i had mate in 1 and i resigned because i thought it was loosing when i analyzed the game i was so sad

Happens to me a lot in my 600 elo because they need to go do somthin else

It's clearly projection but my absolute conviction in this instance is "opponent had diarrhoea".

I resign winning positions when I need to go to my next class

Just to screw around I made an unexplainable blunder of a piece that my opponent stared at for a few minutes before resigning. He thought it was a brilliant move and I was totally bluffing, checked the analysis and he had forced mate

sometimes ppl resign even tho they're winning because they have stuff to do in real life (that wasnt meant in a bad way, thats the only reason i can think of.)

His wife called him for dinner😀

@Platzhalterxy

Жыл бұрын

I actually resigned several times for that reason

it might happen if you play fast. i had such situation several times

Haha yeah, just recently I created an awesome fork with a knight targeting two rooks, not realizing that he can easily check me, get out and even win the knight for nothing. I got the blunder realization right after I moved, I sat there hoping the opponent won't see it, and he straight up resigned after like 4 seconds :D

Ive offered a draw to an opposite color bishop endgame thinking it was a draw and of course game review thought I was +3. I don't know anything about chess anymore.

Chess vibes: i lost i- The opponent: i resign Chess vibes: what? Why? The opponent: some games are better left unfinished

It happen to me alot ,in my time work,I have rest time suddenly the bos coming and give me urgent task, and I have to resign

And then he sacrifices THE BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISHOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mom was calling me

My opponent once resigned a Mate in 3 for him

What happen if you play QueenG4 if they run into corner though?

that guy got loadshedding im betting

Maybe they thought Qg4 would have forced mate

I have resigned a winning position. I was down a piece and thought I was about to lose another and be in an unrecoverable position. What I didn’t know was I had a very powerful Queen sacrifice at the time I was so new I didn’t know how to follow the pattern after that to see what in the world the engine saw after that where somehow I ended up in a winning position. No idea how it worked. If I were to see it today I would at least follow the position through and see how stockfish comes out ahead. This was a long time ago. But I won’t forget thinking the engine must be broken the stupid thing just wants me to sac my Queen WTF? Having seen your channel for awhile now I know there was obviously some sort of magical follow up.