I've had a few. It usually happens when my opponent tries to win on time (or doesn't know that K+R vs K+R is a draw). We just move aimlessly for 50 moves.
I've done that and succeeded twice, because time control was 15 0
I've lost the mouse race a few times. However, OTB is usually played with time delays (so there is no race to the finish) or I can invoke the "insufficient losing chances" rule (USCF 14H or FIDE 10.2.a)
The game can't make progress in a perpetual check..but there are those checks where the queen chases the king around an open board.
Interessting story. So I was a pawn down against someone rated like, 200 rating points higher than me. We finally got to this endgame. I was checking him all over the board, like 15 people were watching. His passed pawn on the h file had no real danger of queening but I couldn't stop it. I got lucky, I skewered his king and queen and he resigned. Like I was expecting a win xD. We were both in time pressure but I had enough time to think of the checks which he can't block the check with his queen and check me at the same time, or the squares where I check and when the king moves, the queen covers all checking squares or the king hides behind his pawns.
I had one once, in a 15 min. OTB tourney many decades ago. My opponent had 2 Knights & of course his King, while I just had my King. Since we couldn't write the moves down (not in a 15 min. game!), I counted aloud. He refused to concede the draw before the 50 moves. Man, was he hot about it--that was the only Quad I ever won.
I get it.
That should be a draw because of insufficient material to mate. 2 knights cannot force checkmate. There is a possible helpmate, but otherwise checkmate is impossible.
Javan64 wrote:
I had one once, in a 15 min. OTB tourney many decades ago. My opponent had 2 Knights & of course his King, while I just had my King. Since we couldn't write the moves down (not in a 15 min. game!), I counted aloud. He refused to concede the draw before the 50 moves. Man, was he hot about it--that was the only Quad I ever won.
I've had a few. It usually happens when my opponent tries to win on time (or doesn't know that K+R vs K+R is a draw). We just move aimlessly for 50 moves.
I've done that and succeeded twice, because time control was 15 0