Don't worry about the engine in these positions, the engine might say it's better for black, but PRACTICALLY, for us mere mortals, I would go for the draw, so many ways to go wrong and so few ways to win. Someone might say differently, however.
Not a draw?
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Sensei-T wrote:
Don't worry about the engine in these positions, the engine might say it's better for black, but PRACTICALLY, for us mere mortals, I would go for the draw, so many ways to go wrong and so few ways to win. Someone might say differently, however.
That's what I thought as well. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that two rooks and a knight is technically better than a queen and was more worried about what that queen could do if I did the wrong thing.
Funnily enough, the move I played that caused the draw to occur was considered a mistake. Also, for the record, the evaluation beforehand was -1.4.
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Sensei-T wrote:
Don't worry about the engine in these positions, the engine might say it's better for black, but PRACTICALLY, for us mere mortals, I would go for the draw, so many ways to go wrong and so few ways to win. Someone might say differently, however.
That's what I thought as well. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that two rooks and a knight is technically better than a queen and was more worried about what that queen could do if I did the wrong thing.
Funnily enough, the move I played that caused the draw to occur was considered a mistake. Also, for the record, the evaluation beforehand was -1.4.
Yeah black is only up a point in material, if your only advantage is being up a pawn, even to the engine, with such large imbalances, you definitely need to keep playing safe. In my opinion.
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In this position, I (black) opted for a draw by repetition.
I had a feeling it wasn't actually a dead draw, and the game review says I did indeed have a slight advantage before I took the draw. However, I'm not exactly sure how I was supposed to continue if I had done Kc8 and allowed the game to continue, especially when the entire second half of the game was comprised of my opponent delivering pointless checks in hopes that I would blunder (No joke: I got 5 or 6 "great" moves from just not moving my checked king to the wrong square).
I know what I should have done to not end up in this position (my playing two not immediately obvious blunders led to it), but what is it I should have done afterward? Hunting the pawns while avoiding queen forks seems like a monumental task, especially in time trouble. And even if I did hypothetically get all the pawns, what do I do about the enemy queen?