BIG BLUNDER BUT NOT THE BIGGEST
Losing your Queen to a Knight or a Pawn most times is devastating. It’s one of the top blunders in a chess game but there are bigger blunders and we will talk about that later in the post. The first question that come to mind is whether or not you should resign. Of course that depend mostly on your opponent strength and your strength of play. Also how many points and time the Queen lost put you behind.
I was reminded last week that “You never win when you resign” and that very true. But in a hive chess tournament there are pros and cons about resigning. The biggest pro is that you will have more time to try and win another game. The three biggest cons are:
1: You never win.
2: You miss the opportunity to test yourself in a “Kobayashi Maru” (Star trek No Win Scenario).
3: You will never be the hero when you resign. (LOL)
Having tunnel vision is a mistake or a blunder, you know better and you are capable of preventing the resulting damage but you don’t. That my friend is the biggest blunder or mistake and many time you wonder how in the world could you miss the blunder.
Not to many blunders bigger than the Queen give away!
Checkmate is bigger...:)
checkmate is finial but not always a blunder...
Losing your Queen maybe the worst feeling...
what about missing an easy checkmate?
Thanks @poshbot