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Draws

Submitted by da_tornado on Tue, 06/09/2009 at 4:41pm.

Okay I admit it, I have guilty pleasures. I like to eat ice cream in the middle of the knight, I secretly drink all of our Pepsi. But my biggest confession is that I love draws. Draws by repitition are better than winning at times. I just love messing with people. It's the ultimate physcological victory.

Sometimes I refuse to milk a winning position but instead force a draw. Yeah, I get lazy and then I don't care anymore, so I get a draw, it's an easy way out.

 

 

At other times, you just don't like the look of things, so you take the liberty of harassing the enemy queen using conditional moves. I think you should get points for being the one to force the draw, but that's okay. But still.................. you can't touch this(lights flash, I do my tap-dance (routine).

Okay, I screwed over on this one, so I resorted to semi-desperate measures (the musical kind too) and won, in a moral sense. Win a victory (my rook) but lose the war (he failed in his objective of winning and succeeded in my goal of getting a draw).

 

 

 

 

 

Well this is one of my draws that I had no control over, so awwwwwwww. It feels more like a bitter stalemate than a moral victory. Thats okay, but that e-pawn ghost still taunts me for letting it die.

Okay, in this game, I was in deep doo-doo. I was expecting defeat. But, somehow i managed to pull this one out from under poor Gasperoff.

 

 

 

Okay, I don't know how I messed up. It has something to do with me allowing him to take my pawns. Now I know what it's like ot be on the recieving end or a draw, but I guess what goes around comes around, (like a boomerang, BRILLIANT!, IN A SIX PACK!) There's a bud light commerical for this but I just van't find it. I will add it to my post when I can find it, so if anyone knows please tell me.Wink

Well since my games archive only goes so far, I guess this is the end of my post. Have a been boring you this whole time? have I really? I will let you decide for yourself. If you say yes, I will give you knightmaresCool. I spent so long on this, so any comments would be greatly appreciated. da_tornado out

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Comments:

by YeahOK - 14 months ago
Cairo Egypt
Member Since: May 2010
Member Points: 5

This post was great and I'm glad I read it.  I like chess just like everyone else here does, but sometimes people get waaaay too overboard and serious over a flipping board game. 

 

The post I read before I read this one was actually overshadowed by some dude whose comments entailed posting a bunch of Edgar Allen Poe poetry to convey his deep love for chess and to openly contemplate how glad he is that "chess has come such a long way since the 1900s."  Uhh, yeah pal.  I pray no one introduces that guy to Monopoly or Edgar Allen Poe's surviving kin might be forced to sue the dude for copyright enfringement.

 

After reading this I am relieved there's at least one other guy here who plays chess to have fun and doesn't treat the game like some life or death scenario.  I also enjoy psychologically messing with an opponent... it's often times a lot more fun than the game itself. 

 

Respect.

by jesterville - 2 years ago
Toronto Canada
Member Since: Dec 2009
Member Points: 1105

Drawing against someone withwhom you have fought with in battle can be an honour...at times a major disappointment.

Thanks for some more wisdom.

by da_tornado - 2 years ago
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1046

True, I am bad at chess but I see that you have have lower rating currently vs my rating........... but who am to judge?

by Checkmate1995 - 2 years ago
In peoples heart India
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 72

Plenty of mistakes

by btheowner - 2 years ago
Canada
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 11

Mind games Wink I like it. I just might give it a try.

by da_tornado - 2 years ago
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1046

@Whipster, it's fun and amusing and only costs me about 3-5 points per joyride so that can be easily compensated for Cool

by Whipster - 2 years ago
Kabul Afghanistan
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 387

Then why do you so enjoy getting draws out of lower rated players?Wink

by da_tornado - 2 years ago
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1046

PeterArt, the person with the higher rating loses points and the one with the lower rating gains points so forcing draws isn't always something that you can do with impunity

by PeterArt - 2 years ago
Luijk Belgium
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 1000

nice article and samples, its often difficult to get yourself in a draw.
I even more prefer stalemate.

What happens though if you for example have 1500 points and the other has 1200 and it becomes a draw does each get points ?

by bkgoblue - 2 years ago
Detroit United States
Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 1

i really never thought about the draw as a tactic. now i might go ahead and try it.

Thanks

 

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