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Subject: Re: Is it a theoretical draw?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:45:10 10/25/02

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On October 25, 2002 at 10:38:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>This game was played in a tournament when movei participates
>The game was adjudicated as a draw
>
>I want an opinion of expert if this is a theoretical draw.
>
>I do not see a plan to win the game but if I am black I am going to continue to
>play and try to push the king to the middle of the board.
>
>Movei played with no plan but the 50 move rule could concince it to push a pawn
>or repetition could convince it to find a plan.
>
>I think that the decision to adjudicate the game as a draw was too early inspite
>of the fact that I understand the decision because movei did not have an idea to
>make progress.
>
>I give diagram of the final position and the game that was also posted in the
>winboard forum.
>
>[D]8/7p/1B4k1/5p2/5R2/5KP1/8/2q5 w - - 0 91

Note that the mutual agreement is probably mainly the fault of arena because I
read few minutes ago in the winboard forum that Arena adjudicates draw after 90
moves in it's default option.

Uri



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