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what would you do if you're ahead and winning in a game but your king is exposed and has nowhere to run and remain unchecked. your opponent can check you endless amount of time hoping for a draw (and does) but he can't mate and on top of all that he offers a draw every 2.nd move?

would you accept the draw? what would you do? 

Avatar of dominicbody2

If your opponent has a forced perpetual check you'd have to take the draw.

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This is part of chess, if you have a better position, or more material, it is your responsibility to make sure that he can't force a perpetual, or a mate for that matters.

After the same position has opccured 3 times, either of you can claim a draw.

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If your opponent has perpetual check, you are not winning. Your opponent has a forced draw by repetition. He should offer once; if you ignorantly refuse, he should claim the draw on the third repetition. In your opponent's shoes, I would use premove in such a situation to get to the third repetition quickly.

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http://blog.chess.com/Loomis/perpetual-check

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ok I guess my biggest mistakes was allowing those checks then

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sanan22 wrote:

what would you do if you're ahead and winning in a game but your king is exposed and has nowhere to run and remain unchecked. your opponent can check you endless amount of time hoping for a draw (and does) but he can't mate and on top of all that he offers a draw every 2.nd move?

would you accept the draw? what would you do? 


His offering a draw every other move is rude.  But other than that, he's doing nothing wrong.  Do you expect him to just say "Oh, I guess I'll resign" when he can get a draw?

If you can stop the perpetual checks, then stop them.  If you can't stop them, then you're going to end up in a draw.

You say you are winning, but if you can't stop the perpetual checks, then you aren't.