White to move. This is an actual game between my sister Judit and Morozevich recently. Judit was White.
Is this a win or draw for White?
8/8/K7/8/1P6/P2q4/3k4/Q7 w – – 0 76
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Essential endgame knowledge
It’s a draw because black’s queen keeps checking all the time and the white king can’t escape the checks. The white queen is too offside to prevent the checks.
I actually slogged through this marathon with a tablebase. (Yeah, get a life, I know.) It looks like Morozevich blundered on move 126 but that Polgar gave it right back on her next move. Nowhere near as absurd as this display of low comedy.
It looks draw with perpetual checks.
White should hide her king on h1. (Wild guess =)
Ano 10:34:
Thanks for the link. But where is the comedy?
But where is the comedy?
After 57.Kxa3 the position is a draw. But nooooo — Cheparinov and Carlsen took turns blundering away half-points for each of the next five half-moves.