Well if u are an beginner it will be hard for you to find something useful in grandmaster games. On high lvl most of the time players dont play to the end ( mate ) but they just resign at some point where they dont see any chance for a draw or win. Also there could be a time pressure on some of the players that can also result in resigning
Question about a resigned final?
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Sep 15, 2011
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1.Rxc3 exd1=Q+ 2.Kb2 Qxe5
A queen is almost always better than a rook and piece, especially in an open board, and in this case, black is the side with the extra pawns. I'm pretty sure I'd most likely lose, or if I'm lucky, draw this against any GM with black, but it's a trivial win for high level chess players.
Okey, the pros don't play to the end (checkmate) but often resign in advance, but what you are telling me here is that this final position, though favourable to black, is not really an automatic resignation for white and that he could have also played further, even if probably losing.
@ Philidor : 2.Kb2 Qxe5..... but in e5 there is no piece..... and the promoted queen is on the d column.... you mean d5?
Anyway my PC software (Chessmaster) won it using black but it needed around 30 moves from this final position....
Hello I'm a complete noob in chess and I'm trying to understand more about the game and so I started searching archived games around the net etc, annotated games etc. I have found a game where I can't understand the final at all, and also my Pc game Chessmaster didn't give me a straight answer. In this game, played at the 2011 Russian Superfinals, Galkin, white player, resign the game and I can't understand why. My PC game yes told me that Black is going to win but it took around 35 moves to sort it out... so why white resigned so early? I can still see white trying to save this game. So if you can tell why he resigned at this stage it would be of huge help for me trying to understand final stages of the game and why one need to resign cos there s no more hope. Here is the final position I'm talking about.