Draws

Submitted by da_tornado on Tue, 06/09/2009 at 4:41pm.

Okay I admit it, I have guilty pleasures. I like to eat ice cream in the middle of the knight, I secretly drink all of our Pepsi. But my biggest confession is that I love draws. Draws by repitition are better than winning at times. I just love messing with people. It's the ultimate physcological victory.

Sometimes I refuse to milk a winning position but instead force a draw. Yeah, I get lazy and then I don't care anymore, so I get a draw, it's an easy way out.

 

 

At other times, you just don't like the look of things, so you take the liberty of harassing the enemy queen using conditional moves. I think you should get points for being the one to force the draw, but that's okay. But still.................. you can't touch this(lights flash, I do my tap-dance (routine).

Okay, I screwed over on this one, so I resorted to semi-desperate measures (the musical kind too) and won, in a moral sense. Win a victory (my rook) but lose the war (he failed in his objective of winning and succeeded in my goal of getting a draw).

 

 

 

 

 

Well this is one of my draws that I had no control over, so awwwwwwww. It feels more like a bitter stalemate than a moral victory. Thats okay, but that e-pawn ghost still taunts me for letting it die.

Okay, in this game, I was in deep doo-doo. I was expecting defeat. But, somehow i managed to pull this one out from under poor Gasperoff.

 

 

 

Okay, I don't know how I messed up. It has something to do with me allowing him to take my pawns. Now I know what it's like ot be on the recieving end or a draw, but I guess what goes around comes around, (like a boomerang, BRILLIANT!, IN A SIX PACK!) There's a bud light commerical for this but I just van't find it. I will add it to my post when I can find it, so if anyone knows please tell me.Wink

Well since my games archive only goes so far, I guess this is the end of my post. Have a been boring you this whole time? have I really? I will let you decide for yourself. If you say yes, I will give you knightmaresCool. I spent so long on this, so any comments would be greatly appreciated. da_tornado out

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Comments:

by Checkmate1995 - 9 days ago
In peoples heart India
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 46

Plenty of mistakes

by btheowner - 3 months ago
Canada
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 11

Mind games Wink I like it. I just might give it a try.

by da_tornado - 4 months ago
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1018

@Whipster, it's fun and amusing and only costs me about 3-5 points per joyride so that can be easily compensated for Cool

by Whipster - 4 months ago
Kabul Afghanistan
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 387

Then why do you so enjoy getting draws out of lower rated players?Wink

by da_tornado - 4 months ago
Honolulu United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 1018

PeterArt, the person with the higher rating loses points and the one with the lower rating gains points so forcing draws isn't always something that you can do with impunity

by PeterArt - 4 months ago
Luijk Belgium
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 559

nice article and samples, its often difficult to get yourself in a draw.
I even more prefer stalemate.

What happens though if you for example have 1500 points and the other has 1200 and it becomes a draw does each get points ?

by bkgoblue - 4 months ago
Detroit United States
Member Since: Apr 2009
Member Points: 1

i really never thought about the draw as a tactic. now i might go ahead and try it.

Thanks

 

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