perpetual check gone too far

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Avatar of redsoxfan33

Okay so I am currently playing a game against a player named mohsen_A, and I am clearly in a winning position (check out my game against him). I could easily win, but there is one problem. He has put me in check 13 striaght times and counting, I reported him. He keeps asking for a draw, is this moral, what would you do in my situation?

Avatar of Nytik

Please say that this isn't a real post, and that you're joking?!

Surely, SURELY you haven't reported a guy for getting a draw from you. If he can keep checking you forever, the game is a draw. Simple.

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It's simple -- if he can find a way to keep checking you, then you aren't in a winning position at all, it's drawn. If he can repeat the position three times, or reach fifty moves without pawn moves or captures, he can claim a draw. Probably he thinks he can do this, and to avoid the tedium of making fifty checks, he offers a draw.

If you can find a way to get out of the checks, then you can then try to win the game. If you can't find a way out, then I wonder why you're not accepting the draw.

All of this is perfectly normal chess. Beats me why you would report him.

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Lower rated players just get mad when it happens because they often have winning positions up a lot of material and think it's stupid to get checked over and over when it's clear the king is safe, it just has to keep moving to safety! But it's your job to avoid this, after all, checkmate ultimately wins the game, and so check forces you to react, so you have to make sure the king is always safe from too many checks. I think in a lot of Kasparov-Karpov matches, one player sacs a piece in a dull position to get prepetual check getting an easy draw.

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ill find a way out...

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Elubas wrote:

Lower rated players just get mad when it happens because they often have winning positions up a lot of material and think it's stupid to get checked over and over when it's clear the king is safe, it just has to keep moving to safety! But it's your job to avoid this, after all, checkmate ultimately wins the game, and so check forces you to react, so you have to make sure the king is always safe from too many checks. I think in a lot of Kasparov-Karpov matches, one player sacs a piece in a dull position to get prepetual check getting an easy draw.


 exactly, I am a low rated, inexperienced player

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eaglex wrote:

missed checkmate move 11


Not quite. The king had an escape square.

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imoa! he doesnt have perpetual check

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pwnd, you are breaking chess.com rules by giving information/assistance regarding a game in progress. I strongly suggest you delete your post ASAP.

Avatar of redsoxfan33

I am very sorry I brought this upon my opponent as well as myself, and will learn very much from this post, thanks to all that taught me this valuable lesson...

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pwnd247.....the staff are going to pwn you for that and you will be so pwnd. lol

 

sorry, anyway.........now everytime a similar topic comes up we can just point them here instead of breaking our head trying to explain it.

 

Rich, your game was funny.... kept me laughing for quite a while!

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rich wrote:

In fact this game reminds me of the good old times as a 1100 player, lol. I couldn't resist.

 


 rich, how was this game not drawn by threefold repitition after move 21. ... Qa3+ (draw)???

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krislwright wrote:
rich wrote:

In fact this game reminds me of the good old times as a 1100 player, lol. I couldn't resist.

 


 rich, how was this game not drawn by threefold repitition after move 21. ... Qa3+ (draw)???


the player doing all of the checks didnt claim a draw by threefold repetition, therefore it is not a draw!

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rich- both times i went through that game kept me in stitches!  sooo funny!  you got anymore like that?  :D

Avatar of ozzie_c_cobblepot

Either player can claim a draw via threefold repetition.

At my level though, draws are usually agreed, and seldom claimed.

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rich wrote:

In fact this game reminds me of the good old times as a 1100 player, lol. I couldn't resist.

 

 


Wow that match lasted forever. it made me laugh out loud, rich.

Avatar of MooMooCowy

Hey Rich, did I overlook something, or could the queen have easily been sacked on moves 71, 73 & 74?

Avatar of JediMaster

It is part of the game.  I am not sure why you brought up the fact of a moral issue?  Morals is a way to live life.  This is just chess, not life or death. 

Avatar of marvellosity

Incidentally, the title of the OP is excellent.

"Perpetual check gone too far" - how can 'perpetual' go too far, as by definition it goes on forever...