Resigning in a legally drawn position

[Alexander Hardwick]

I used to teach juniors the 3 ways out of check (take, block, move) until I discovered the fourth when a player thought he was mated as the first 3 did not work.

[The fourth being check your opponent has not made an illegal move.]

Please bear in mind that some people on here may be short-sighted - I needed a magnifying glass to read that!

And I had to zoom the screen in 7 times before it could be read comfortably. I think that may have been the point.

[Neill Cooper]

I was just using one of the 5 font size options on the format bar:
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[IM Jack Rudd]

I was just using one of the 5 font size options on the format bar:
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Uh, yeah. The fact that formatting options exist is not, in itself, a reason to use them. There are formatting options I'd disable if I could, underline being among them.

[Alex Holowczak]

I was just using one of the 5 font size options on the format bar:
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Uh, yeah. The fact that formatting options exist is not, in itself, a reason to use them. There are formatting options I'd disable if I could, underline being among them.

Awww, don't be such a spoil sport.

[Warren Kingston]

Jack, how about Caps in front of your name

[Stewart Reuben]

I only just came across this ancient string by accident.
What happened in Chandler-Motwani was that neither was dramtically short of time and, what could possibly happen, with two such honourable players? It was tiring (and, in my case, unwise) standing in front of boards, so Kevin O'Connell and I moved from one board to another.
In the brief moment neither of us was present at the board, Murray moved his knight illegally like a bishop, forking king and rook. Murray was already the exchange up and Paul resigned instantly.
Had either Kevin or I been there we would of course have stepped in, hopefully before Paul resigned.

The Appeal Committee asked me what their rights were. I explained that they are very broad. They upheld the resignation, quite correctly, although they could have overturned it It was a relief that Paul stood so much worse.

[David Sedgwick]

In the brief moment neither of us was present at the board, Murray moved his knight illegally like a bishop, forking king and rook. Murray was already the exchange up and Paul resigned instantly.

Memory can be fickle as to detail after 22 years.

Here is the game:

[Event "Blackpool (England)"] [Site "Blackpool (England)"] [Date "1990.??.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "?"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Paul Motwani"] [Black "Murray Chandler"] [ECO "B30"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "59"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nd4 5.e5 Nxb5 6.Nxb5 Nd5 7.O-O a6 8.c4 Nb4 9.Nc3 d6 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.d4 cxd4 12.Ne4 Qc7 13.Qa4+ Nc6 14.Nxd4 Bd7 15.Nb5 Qb8 16.Nbc3 e6 17.Rd1 f5 18.Rxd7 Kxd7 19.Qd1+ Ke8 20.Ng5 Qe5 21.g3 Rd8 22.Qb3 Nd4 23.Qxb7 Be7 24.Bf4 Qc5 25.Re1 Qc8 26.Qxc8 Rxc8 27.Rd1 Rxc4 28.Rxd4 Rxd4 29.Nxe6 Rb4 30.Nxg7+ 0-1

Unless I'm much mistaken, Chandler then played 30... Rxf4. Motwani resigned as he would have emerged a rook down after 31. gxf4 Rg8 - except that 30. Nxg7 is check.

[MSoszynski]

Here's my eleventh-ever competitive game. My opponent resigned after the en passant, and quickly exited before anything was queried, so the result stood.

M.Soszynski-J.Cook
Hull Summer League, 1990
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 d6 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.dxe5 Ne8 6.Qf3+ Kg8 7.Qb3+ d5 8.e5xd6+ (ep) 1-0.

[LawrenceCooper]

Here's my eleventh-ever competitive game. My opponent resigned after the en passant, and quickly exited before anything was queried, so the result stood.

M.Soszynski-J.Cook
Hull Summer League, 1990
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 d6 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7 5.dxe5 Ne8 6.Qf3+ Kg8 7.Qb3+ d5 8.e5xd6+ (ep) 1-0.

No wonder I get so confused when playing you in simuls

[Stewart Reuben]

>No wonder I get so confused when playing you in simuls<

Who givdes the simul?