Repeated checks = draw?

So I can have 2 rooks and a queen while my opponent has only a queen and a pawn while they keep checking me and it’s a DRAW???!?!!!???!! I’m upset

[Moderator: Amended title. SG]

Your last game was drawn due to a "threefold repetition" rule, meaning the same position reoccurred three times. This is classed as a draw because its generally deemed that no progress is being made if the position is repeating itself multiple times, so the rule stops a game repeating indefinitely.

In your last game, you could have avoided threefold repetition. Blocking the checks with your own queen rather than moving your king back and forth could have been one such way to continue, for example.

Yep, the draw was avoidable, if you had known the technique. On move 46, you needed to move your king to g8, then as it was checked by the white queen, you needed to move your king down the board closer to the white king by using the g and h files. At some point, you'd be able to block the checks with your queen.

Remember, as long as a position is repeated three times...

In one of your draws (among the very first few draws of your account), you were lucky that the opponent played a threefold repetition when he had a large upper hand at the end. He had a large attack on your king, but ended up performing threefold repetition. You saved the game from a loss as a result.

Threefold repetition is a fair rule.

courage was a good show