What's the Point of Draws?

Scottrf wrote:

captainyoyo22 wrote:

Draws are part of chess.  One of the three possible results.

What are the other two?

Win and lose

That's what I said!

So....after 5 pages you still don't understand?

jumper6523 wrote:

Scottrf wrote:

captainyoyo22 wrote:

Draws are part of chess.  One of the three possible results.

What are the other two?

Win and lose

You were using an iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch?

There are a few ways to win from that position. King on the six rank then jus push the prawn and the king can't stay in front of it.

Irontiger wrote:

FrodoPiano wrote:

AquilaZeta wrote:

ubuntux wrote:

The second diagram shows a draw?

it is. you can check by setting up a board and playing with yourself

Yes that is true. Look:

Oops :

And in the original diagram, 6.Kc6 ! wins (5...Kc8 ??? -> 5...Kd8 ! =)

are you playing on a mobile device?

What do you mean?

Guys, I just want to thank you for helping me understand draws! :)

You are so very welcome. I wish you the best of health and love and happiness in your life going forward. I read something earlier from chessgames.com in which a cancer survivor said something like live life while you have it, because it doesn't last. I think if we all just loved each other more, the world would be a better place. I also met a girl, which always helps :) The point is, I'm in a good mood right now. Anyways, Happy thoughts and positive thinking! :)

:)

you mean will not ill, right? im not sick! <not me

Heh :)

The American national sport is baseball, and in baseball (at least historically speaking) draws are shunned... major league teams always used to play it out to a conclusion, no matter how many extra innings it took. Not sure if this is still true. But that might explain why the OP finds draws to be an odd idea: American culture is one of winners and losers. Splitting the point seems, from that angle, to miss the point of playing a game.

As an American, I concur.

The point of a draw is that both players get a half point each as the result. It means that neither player won, it was an equally contested battle.

Apart from that awful pic in the post above me (we are now in post-pic-spam chess.com), i wanna tell you a story about a draw.

Draws were very popular in the wild west.

2 gunslingers in a showdown on a dusty road outside a saloon.

Ok enough of that.

So I was playing this guy once in round 1 of a major Irish tournament which, amazingly enough, was played in a hotel, not a bar, so it was difficult to acclimatise to the smell of no beer while playing.

Anyway i was playing this young prodigy who was really kicking butt at the time. I got into a losing position, so i had a choice. Try punking him and go for the swindle (allowing him a forced win) or go into an endgame with slim prospects.

So i played my swindle, confidently playing my big move and looking perfectly happy about it. My opponent trusted my poker face and i slipped away with a draw. i showed him his win and he was disgusted!

I won every other game in that tournament, finishing 2nd to the then Irish champion.

So when you're losing, respect the draw.

i saw the comment and the emoticon and had to do it

If Peyton Manning could have come back and got a draw in the Superbowl, I"m sure he would have gladly taken it. (Final score 43-8)

the altar boys can play footie with the fruit ??

just sayin'.