Draw!?!?!?!?!?

Originally posted by Ravello
I played Santa quite a few times now ,I enjoy our games and found out he's a good bloke.

Bowmann,not all non subscribers are pedantic idiots like you.

So, presumably, you must think I'm a 'good bloke' too.

Originally posted by Santa Drummer
Ok heres the fen which i forgot to post...

[fen]8/5K1p/8/8/5p1q/6k1/8/4Q3[/fen]



EDIT number 1573457: finaly got it

The position you meant to post was



It is a draw because white cannot avoid checks from black's queen, thus the position will repeat.

[Event "WCh-FIDE"]
[Site "San Luis ARG"]
[Date "2005.09.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Topalov, Veselin"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2788"]
[BlackElo "2788"]
[PlyCount "194"]
[EventDate "2005.09.28"]
[Source "Mark Crowther"]
[SourceDate "2005.10.03"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8. Bc3
d5 9. Ne5 Nfd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O Rc8 13. e4 c5 14. exd5 exd5
15. dxc5 dxc4 16. c6 cxb3 17. Re1 b2 18. Bxb2 Nc5 19. Nc4 Bxc4 20. Qg4 Bg5 21.
Qxc4 Nd3 22. Ba3 Nxe1 23. Rxe1 Re8 24. Rxe8+ Qxe8 25. Bd5 h5 26. Kg2 Be7 27.
Bb2 Bf6 28. Bc1 Qe7 29. Be3 Rc7 30. h4 Be5 31. Qd3 Bd6 32. Bg5 Qe8 33. Qf3 b5
34. Be3 Qe5 35. Qd1 Qe8 36. Qxh5 Rxc6 37. Bxa7 Ra6 38. Bd4 Bf8 39. Be5 b4 40.
Qf5 g6 41. Qf4 Qe7 42. Bd4 Ra5 43. Qf3 Bg7 44. Bb6 Rb5 45. Be3 Bc3 46. Bg5 Qa7
47. Qd3 Rb6 48. Be3 Qa6 49. Bxf7+ Kxf7 50. Qd7+ Kf8 51. Qd8+ Kf7 52. Qc7+ Kg8
53. Qxb6 Qxa2 54. Qxg6+ Kh8 55. Qc6 Qf7 56. g4 Bg7 57. h5 b3 58. Qe4 b2 59. h6
Bf6 60. Bd4 Kg8 61. Bxf6 Qxf6 62. Kg3 Qb6 63. Qc4+ Kh7 64. g5 Qg6 65. Qc7+ Kg8
66. Qb8+ Kf7 67. Qb7+ Kf8 68. Qb8+ Kf7 69. Qb3+ Kf8 70. Qf3+ Ke7 71. Qe3+ Kd7
72. Qd4+ Ke6 73. Qxb2 Qxg5+ 74. Kf3 Qh5+ 75. Ke4 Qf5+ 76. Ke3 Qg5+ 77. f4 Qg3+
78. Ke4 Qe1+ 79. Kf3 Qf1+ 80. Kg3 Qg1+ 81. Qg2 Qb1 82. Qc6+ Kf7 83. Qd7+ Kf6
84. Qg7+ Ke6 85. Qe5+ Kf7 86. Qh5+ Kf6 87. Qg5+ Kf7 88. Qh5+ Kf6 89. Qh4+ Kf7
90. h7 Qe1+ 91. Kg4 Qd1+ 92. Kg5 Qd8+ 93. Kh5 Qd5+ 94. Qg5 Qh1+ 95. Qh4 Qd5+
96. Kg4 Qd1+ 97. Kg3 Qe1+ 1/2-1/2