Questions tagged [draw]
Questions relating to drawing in chess
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What is the theoretical maximal material difference of a dead draw which is not a stalemate?
I have noticed the following example, which should be a dead draw:
I am wondering what is the theoretical material difference of a dead draw which is not a stalemate? (I am not asking about agreed ...
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Most drawish and least drawish opening?
Based on statistics (drawing percentage), which opening is the most drawish and which one is the least drawish?
I am aware of questions such as this one, but my question is different.
Criteria:
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Draw offer without executing move
Scenario: It's Player A's move, and without executing a move he offers a draw. Player B replies "Please make a move". Player A then makes a move, where upon player B says: "Ok, I accept". Is it now ...
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What opening is recommended if white is only playing for a draw?
If in a tournament game, white is only aiming for a draw, what openings and strategies will be recommended for him? I guess that the answer may depend on the following different mindset for black:
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Why do chess tournaments allow absolutely scandalous draws? [closed]
I am currently watching the Rapid World Championship and the amount of draws between players is absolutely shocking. I'm not talking about games where each player fights to the end and the game just ...
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Why did this game end with a draw?
This game starts with
f4 e5
g4
IMO, black has a winning position here. How did it end with a draw?
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Rules: Is this position a draw?
Is this position a draw?
[fen ""]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. Ng1 Ng8 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Ng1 Ng8
I don't mean to ask the age-old question "is Chess a draw?"; four moves have been played here, returning to the starting ...
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Would a classic full time armageddon tiebreaker be balanced?
I think that classic chess and rapid chess are two quite different kinds of sport. The classic chess title was undecided this year 2018.
Why not use the armageddon rule, that black wins if tied in ...
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What makes game 5 of the World Championship a draw?
I was watching recently the excellent ChessNetwork commentary of the 5th game of the WCC 2018 between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana. The end position looked like this and players shook hands ...
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Can you take back a draw offer?
Is it possible to take back the draw offer if the opponent was not immediately replying to it?
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How does black ensure a draw in this R+3P vs. r+2p endgame with all pawns on the same side?
From a recent world-championship game Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen (2018), the players agreed to a draw here:
[Title "Black to move"]
[FEN "8/1r3kp1/7p/7P/4R1P1/6K1/5P2/8 b - - 2 54"]
However, ...
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What if threefold repetition occurs in WCC 2018?
It is not allowed to draw till move 30. Are the players forced to find another moves in case of threefold repetition?
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Why is there a draw in professional chess?
I'm not a serious chess player, but I heard that about 80% of professional chess games end as a draw.
In other similar abstract strategy games, such as Shogi and Janggi, when it is impossible to ...
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Why is this a draw? [duplicate]
I just played a game of chess on my Mac and the Mac shows me this as a draw (I'm white). I can't get my head around it. Why is this a draw?
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What's the rationale behind chess engines conditionally allowing threefold repetitions when assigning a draw score?
When a chess engine sees a position p repeated once (i.e. position p occurred twice) it immediately assigns the second occurrence of position p a draw score. This makes sense because position p doesn'...
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What are the downsides of fast tie-breaks after drawn games?
It is well known that a lot of games in the top level round-robin tournaments end in draws, often not very exciting ones. Many consider that detrimental, as it leads to spectators and sponsors losing ...
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Why was this game drawn on lichess?
https://lichess.org/qgvWa0ly
I (black) was losing and ready to resign soon. As far as I can tell, there should be no stalemate or 50 move rule applicable. I had offered a draw earlier, but it was ...
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Is this a stalemate?
The gamepigeon app is declaring I lost (I am black). This simply does not make sense since it is white's turn and they are in check. The game abruptly ends.
Is this erroneous logic? How can I lose ...
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Can a grandmaster always draw?
I was watching the Challengers championship recently and noticed that the commentators talking about Wesley So’s last game got annoyed that he was aiming for a draw and didn’t really have any fight in ...
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How do I escape perpetual check?
In the below position, what is a clear line that shows Black escapes from perpetual check?
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Is this endgame (sort-of Q vs K) a draw?
I think the following endgame is a draw.
[FEN "7k/5BpP/3K2P1/8/8/8/8/4q3 w - - 0 1"]
My reasoning: I'm playing white. I will only move my king, always. Black's king cannot move. If the queen decide ...
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How is this scenario a draw?
Firstly, I'm very very bad at chess. I've known how to play for most of my life, but I've never been good, so I'm trying to get good by playing against easy computers.
I commonly end in draws with ...
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How the engine can detect the 3-fold repetition using FEN input? [duplicate]
When I run the engine (UCI interface), I usually feed the last position from the game using position fen ... command and get the best move back. The FEN encodes the possibility of the castlings, en-...
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How do UCI chess engines handle 50 move or three repetition rule when playing against other engines?
I'm working on an engine that implements the UCI protocol that is intended to play against other engines. Since the UCI protocol has no commands for offering or accepting draws how does this work when ...
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how does a uci engine draw or resign?
I am writing a UCI chess AI/engine. It has the ability to draw and resign. How do I communicate this to the uci chess interface? what string shoud i send back to the GUI?
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Is there a measure of how likely it is that a position will end in a draw? [closed]
I was asked to rephrase this question. Hope at least someone gets what I'm trying to mean here now.
A position can be equal but asymmetrical. If it is very sharp and complicated then at least humans ...
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What happens if a strong chess engine plays with itself many times?
If a strong engine (eg. Stockfish) plays with itself many times (say, 100 times), what will be the outcomes in terms of the following:
What will be the proportion of draws? Will there be wins/losses? ...
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Maximum number of pieces on board in dead position
It is possible in a chess game to have a dead position in which both players have all eight pawns, one bishop, and a king--20 pieces total. If the two players' pawns are interlocked in "zig-zag" ...
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How are agreed draws different from rigging game for betting frauds? [closed]
If two football teams quit their game early on and agreed upon calling it a draw, not only would the audience be pretty disappointed, but they'd lose money on the betting markets too. There are of ...
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Requesting draw in last two minutes
What is the right way to claim a draw in the last two minutes?
Also, is there a procedure to claim a draw after losing on time (I mean if you have a position where you can go for a win if you had time)...
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What rule changes are proposed to minimize the incentive to draw a game?
Many world champion games are drawn, and people in the general public think that is disappointing. Not to debate that opinion here, but the question seems to be out there. So what would a rule change ...
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Number of moves till draw with a king [closed]
5R2/8/6k1/8/4Q3/p7/P7/8 b - - 0 1
If there is a king (black) and one pawn (black) with one queen (white), one pawn (white) and one rook (white) and the pawn (white) is blocking pawn (black).
Can ...
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Checkmate with King and Knight vs King and Knight
I just have a quick question. I was playing on chess.com and got into the following position:
[FEN "8/4n/6k1/8/K2/3N1/8/8 b - - 0 1"]
Now, I assumed that once we traded off the last pawns, the game ...
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Is today's chess.com daily puzzle a draw (as hinted at in the puzzle title)?
Today's daily puzzle on chess.com is called Desperation Draw:
White to move
[FEN "r5k1/P4ppp/8/8/p1p1P3/4KP2/2P3PP/5R2 w - - 0 1"]
1. Rb1 Rf8 2. Rb8 *
One of the commentators asked:
What draw?
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Can it be said that draws occur less often between top-level players of equal caliber, rather than machine draws? [duplicate]
We would be considering, of course, the over the board rating of the respective machines and/or players. I'm ultimately wanting to see evidence that suggests there is an increase of draws amongst ...
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Draws by game number in championship matches
Some commentators have expressed surprise at the two relatively bland draws to open out the most recent (Carlsen-Karjakin) World Championships. I'm wondering whether there's been any study as to ...
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How is this position a draw?
I played against a bot as a White and had this position. The computer claimed that it's a draw.
[FEN "2Q/k/3QP/8/3K/8/8/1N - - - 0 1"]
I thought it would be a checkmate because wherever the Black ...
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How did this game end in a draw?
https://en.lichess.org/B6L5XNox
Never mind the sloppy play. I'm just curious why this ended in a draw:
(Does anyone know how to copy moves from lichess?)
Anyway, the final 5 moves:
Rc4+ Kb6
Qd8+ ...
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Is computer chess exhibiting the predicted “draw death”?
At various times, even going back 100 years or more, people have been predicting the "draw death" of chess meaning that top players will get so good that every game will be a draw.
In the 1984 World ...
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Drawn R+2P vs R endgame
I remember a recent(1-2 years) drawn (super)grandmaster game in which white had 2 connected pawns and a rook, while black had a rook. I later learned that it was a theoretical draw, which quite ...
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How to offer a draw when the opponent is not present
Imagine that your opponent is away from the board and you want to make a move and then offer a draw and leave for the toilet with some urgency. What is the solution to this inconvenience? Can a player ...
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Why do some players never accept a draw offer?
Some of the people I play against will never accept a draw offer, even in positions that are a theoretical draw.
I know it's a draw. They know it's a draw. But they want to play until:
Draw by ...
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Is this a fortress?
I have just played a thoroughly enjoyable game, where in the middlegame I was forced to give up the queen for two minor pieces and defend. After 30 moves and some trades, the situation got simplified ...
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USCF Ruling - Resignation confusion after reaching results sheet
At a tournament I was participating in last weekend, there was an interesting situation that happened and the TD did not know how to handle the situation.
White said something along the lines of "I ...
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What is perpetual check?
I know that there is 6 types of draws including mutual agreement, stalemate, insufficient material, 3 move repetition and the fifty move rule, but I do not know what is perpetual check.
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Automatic draw rules
In developing a computer chess program, would it be reasonable to automatically declare a draw match for these two scenarios:
A. Player 1 has a king and a knight, player 2 has only a king left.
B. ...
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When is the right time to offer a draw according to the FIDE OTB rules
Is there any FIDE rule to say when is the right time to offer a draw?
To be more clear, shall I offer a draw when my clock is going or I should offer if my opponent's clock is running? In this ...
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Drawing rules for time loss
Let's say we have a few situations. White has all their pieces (hypothetically) and black has only:
N+K
B+K
N+N+K
If white were to run out of time, would each of these situations be a draw due to ...
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Does checkmate over ride 50 move violation?
If a move creates the 50 move violation and at the same time creates checkmate, does the checkmate take priority over the draw ?
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The 50 Move Rule
Can the fifty move counter be increased after white's move?
I thought that it could only be increased if both white and then black had not moved a pawn nor captured a piece that qualified for a whole ...
