Never give up
We all make mistakes. Even GMs make mistakes. They just make far fewer than novices like me.
As I understand it, when a GM makes a (rare) blunder in a standard game against another GM, they resign. Makes sense. If blunders at their level are rare, it's unreasonable to expect their opponent to also make a blunder. A blunder at that level costs a game.
But I'm a novice, currently with an ECF rating of 74, (approx 1240 FIDE). I'm used to making blunders, even in correspondence chess games. But unlike a GM, I play opponents who are also relative novices, and so I've learned not to give up. Like in this game:
<SHOW GAME>
I blundered at move XXX. Some people would resign at this point. Perhaps it was rude of me not to. But resigning teaches you nothing, so I played on. Now, at move YYY, we reach the position shown below. It's my opponent's move, and he blundered. Can you guess how?
<before bad king move>
He moved:
As I understand it, when a GM makes a (rare) blunder in a standard game against another GM, they resign. Makes sense. If blunders at their level are rare, it's unreasonable to expect their opponent to also make a blunder. A blunder at that level costs a game.
But I'm a novice, currently with an ECF rating of 74, (approx 1240 FIDE). I'm used to making blunders, even in correspondence chess games. But unlike a GM, I play opponents who are also relative novices, and so I've learned not to give up. Like in this game:
<SHOW GAME>
I blundered at move XXX. Some people would resign at this point. Perhaps it was rude of me not to. But resigning teaches you nothing, so I played on. Now, at move YYY, we reach the position shown below. It's my opponent's move, and he blundered. Can you guess how?
<before bad king move>
He moved: