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> I understand what a drawn position is To make this more concrete, the following link is a drawn position (it is trivially easy for either side to avoid check
by umanwizard 8y ago
> I understand what a drawn position is
To make this more concrete, the following link is a drawn position (it is trivially easy for either side to avoid checkmate, indefinitely)
http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=---k-------------------------------------------------------KNN-- http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=---k------------------...
However, checkmate is still possible (White can checkmate Black if Black makes severe blunders that even beginners probably wouldn't make)
Do you think the players should be forced to play on here?
- russellbeattie 8y agoYes! Or black should resign. And in addition, they have clocks for a reason - though time is added indefinitely at the end (if a player moves fast enough) - if a player takes an hour more than an opponent (like Carlsen did in the middle of game 8) they should start to feel the pressure of that more severely.
- umanwizard 8y agoWhy do you think Black should lose here? Why is Black's position worse than White's ? If your answer is "White has more material", keep in mind that chess is not about material; it is about checkmate. But, nevertheless, here's an example with equal material where checkmate is possible for both sides, but not without blunders. Who should have to resign here? http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=--------------------k-------p-------P-------K------------------- http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=--------------------k-... If you really insist on saying "well yes, they should have to keep moving the kings around aimlessly for hours until somebody's clock runs out", you're proposing a game that is so fundamentally unlike chess that it should probably be given a different name.