not at all. close it out

I did, but he seemed a little salty so I wanted to check etiquette.

You're kicking his ass. Unless his pawn is about to queen, how could he think a draw is reasonable there?

+3

IMO it's more of a dick move to offer a draw when you're getting whopped than it is to refuse a draw in that scenario

this has gone on for way too fucking long

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=47802939

1.d4 d5
2.f3

wtf is white thinking?

Trying to throw you off? Transposed into some other opening in a different move order? He just is playing random moves?

lethal wrote:Trying to throw you off? Transposed into some other opening in a different move order? He just is playing random moves?

I think his next move is going to be e4 (I think).

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1487929

18...Qxb1

Everyone seems to think this was a bad move. The proposed improvements are ...Qxg5 and ...Bxf2.

Why not ...Qxh2? There must be something obviously wrong with this move but I can't see it.

I'd ask at chessgames.com but I can't seem to log on there. It keeps telling me that my browser is not accepting cookies, even when I change my browser to accept all cookies.

I'm not exactly sure either. Perhaps the queen will be trapped. Also, it says it's a "rapid tournament." Does that mean the games are under 10 minutes or something? If so, I'm sure black didn't have enough time to calculate every move and decided to just take the rook.

this is the crazy slickest thing I've ever done. Black to move, whacha got?

Should be a very easy win for black. Rook to b1 for check. King is forced to move to d2. Then, Bishop to e3. You capture the rook, and he should resign from there.

PrattRules wrote:Should be a very easy win for black. Rook to b1 for check. King is forced to move to d2. Then, Bishop to e3. You capture the rook, and he should resign from there.

yep, he made me play it out like 5 more turns though

Just googled why Rooks are worth so much more than Bishops. Very interesting. Anyone care to guess?

there's a bunch of reasons

I'd guess the simplest way to say it is that on a clear board a rook will always attack 14 squares while a bishop only as many as 13 and possibly only 7. Rooks cover more ground and are way more useful in the endgame

and they can force a checkmate while bishop can't

Yup. Those were the first ones I thought of but the other reason is that a Rook can more safely assure a pawn's path to becoming a Queen.

and the current woes in the catholic church certainly contributed to their devaluation

Plus a Rook can move on any space on the board and a Bishop can only cover half the squares.