[Puzzle Road] I didn't lose! (P31)

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Today we will have a special case of a completely won position to a draw position! In the blog, I will first show you the big blunder, that allowed White the Draw, and then we will see how to draw the game with White!

This is not the first puzzle of the puzzle road, where you must draw the game in a normally lost position. But it’s always interesting to see the different possibilities to cancel a lost game! In this puzzle, I cannot say you which case of draw we have (else, it would be too easy), but I think most of you can already feel the right moves by watching the position!

31/ I didn’t lose! (Topic: draw)

This is the position before White can draw:

And now, this is the position of the puzzle, where White can draw with a piece less:

First move: Queen g5 (!!)

Here, we just easily check the king to try making a 3-times-same-position-draw! And it works, because the black king does not have any other squares than g8 and h8,  because he is blocked by the black rook near to him!

Second move: Queen f6 (!!)

The king is come on h8. We force him to come back on g8.

And we play these moves until it’s a draw!

Easy, no?
@Kyu13

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