Originally posted by Trev33No, it doesn't appear to be a perpetual. It is a known pattern that one side can't perpetual with a lone queen vs king and queen in the corner unless the position has other factors that keep the king out of g7.
oops, that's what it was supposed to be. I'll crawl back into my cave lol
Look at the first pgn, forced draw?
Originally posted by tomtom232Unknown pattern to me.
No, it doesn't appear to be a perpetual. It is a known pattern that one side can't perpetual with a lone queen vs king and queen in the corner unless the position has other factors that keep the king out of g7.
Now I know that means little but,from the game,after 43.Qf7+,how can black escape the perp other than by trading queen for knight?I don't see it 😳
Originally posted by tomtom232Yep,I found out later by having fritz defend the black side.Should've done that before asking here.
@torten
[pgn]1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Ke8f7 3. d4 Ng8f6 4. Ng1f3 Kf7g8 5. c4 d5 6. c5 Bc8xf5 7. Bf1d3 e6 8. Qd1e2 Qd8e8 9. Bc1g5 Bf5xd3 10. Qe2xd3 b6 11. b4 a5 12. bxa5 bxc5 13. dxc5 Nf6e4 14. Bg5e3 Ra8xa5 15. Nb1d2 Ne4xc5 16. Be3xc5 Ra5xc5 17. O-O Nb8c6 18. Rf1e1 Nc6b4 19. Qd3b3 Nb4c2 20. Ra1c1 Nc2xe1 21. Rc1xe1 Rc5b5 22. Qb3a4 Rb5b8 23. Qa4g4 h5 24. Qg4h3 Rh8 ...[text shortened]... 2. Qe8xh5 Qg7h6 43.Qh5f7 Qh6g7 44.Qf7h5 Kh7g8 45.Qh5e8 Qg7f8 46.Qe8g6 Kg8h8 47.Qg6h5 Kh8g7[/pgn]
It's so simple...