Would you accept a draw?

1. Black offered a draw here. This is in an online game (on a different site). Would you accept?

2. Would your opinion change based on these facts:

(a) a win sends white to the next round of a small, no-prize tournament. A draw or loss sends black to the next round

(b) White currently is participating in 32 active online games.

What actually happened? I'll update later.

I'd take the draw. Boring chess sucks.

Unless there are some tricks along the a- file.

And 1.Kf1 loses to 1...Bg2+

I'd also take the draw. To lose this your opponent will have to blunder.

If I understand the question, white moves to the next round if white wins.  With a draw or loss, then white doesn't move on.

If that's the case, white should play it out.  You may lose or draw anyway, but in either of those cases, you are out of the tournament.  The only way to move on is to win, and you can't possibly win if you accept a draw.

Obviously black would want the draw, since that moves black to the next round.  I can't see any reason white would accept a draw knowing that would end the tournament for him.  Play it out, and hope black blunders. 

Yep, take a draw otherwise it will drag..

If you are white play it out.  Both players are rated under 1600.  Blunders are possible.  Lower level players often neglect endgame skills.  Sunspots throw people off.  If you need the full point to advance, play for the full point!!!!

I would play it out.. no harm done. If its the only way I go to the next round then no draw is neccessary.

Normally, yeah this is so drawn. Well, not in blitz. Anything goes in blitz.

But if it's a tournament, the half point is decisive and you actually care about whatever the half point is decisive for, there is a bit you can try to squeeze out left. Maybe you can exchange your rook for the opponent's bishop and a passed pawn or something along those lines; if a loss is as good as a draw that kind of unbalanced play might just be the thing to go for.

Then again, this is correspondence chess; might be good bit harder to get that kind of thing to happen there.

So here's what happened.

White turned down my draw offer. Then shortly thereafter blundered by moving their rook off the back row. Result: loss.

As to what I would have done if I were white:  I would probably have taken the draw, since life is short, the "tournament" isn't meaningful, and finishing these things can take forever.  But maybe not; sometimes I get meaninglessly competitive in these situations.

would draw