CASE IN POINT: I was having a friendly yet competitive OTB game with a coworker. I am a tad bit better than him, but this time, I was getting trounced. There is ALWAYS the possibility of a blunder by us sub 2000 chumps, so I played on.
For the record, I had a king and bishop and a few insignificant pawns vs. his King, Queen, and rook and 1 pawn. He's up by NINE!!! Call it fate, distraction, excitement at closing in on a win of this "important" game, whatever you like, as he was gobbling up my pawns, he dropped his queen on a square that Mr. Bishop just happened to control. Bye bye Queen. It ended up King and Bish vs King and rook, which of course is a DRAW.
Now, I know many of you feel that if you are down 9 you should resign. Blunders happen all the time. But if you are getting clobbered and your opponent feels DISRESPECTED, then why the &&%$&@!# is he not just checkmating you and getting it over with? Answer me that.
Let me tell you all what getting CLOBBERED is NOT. If your opponent cannot checkmate you in the next 15 moves, you AINT getting clobbered. Getting clobbered is 3 or 4 or maybe 5 moves from checkmate. It's these high and mighty types that are up a few pawns and maybe a minor piece and then want you to throw in the towel because (listen closely) they dont feel confident in their abilities to deliver the checkmate. They fear THEY may blunder. They are lazy and want the easy, cheap win while they somehow got the upperhand.
"Resign dude, I'm up a pawn", that's the mindset of the pro-resign crowd.
Dont disrespect your opponent by resigning to him. It's shameful.