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Should I resign?

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I have King and Rook. Opponent has King and Queen. Can I force a draw?

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Game 1736308

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Not at all...just trying to save time.

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Originally posted by camilli
I have King and Rook. Opponent has King and Queen. Can I force a draw?
DO NOT ASK FOR ADVICE ON A GAME IN PROGRESS.

I can however say this about the general situation:
Stats of KQKR Games
KQ to move +99.0 =0.8 -0.2
KR to move +28.7 =5.8 -65.5
(taken from tablebase stats)

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According to the Oxford Chess Encyclopedia, QvR with bare kings left, white wins, the mate should take no more than 31 moves.
That's if your opponent knows what he's doing. You might maybe want to start counting moves.

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White to move and draw.

Stop posting questions about games in progress.

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
[fen]8/7k/8/8/8/1q6/6R1/K7 w - - 0 1[/fen]

White to move and draw.

Stop posting questions about games in progress.
seems like a rookless king deserves no squares...

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That's cool, the stalemate is awesome, took me a while to figure out. Just goes to show you how end game books and analysis can be wrong....in some situations.

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Originally posted by Drumbo
That's cool, the stalemate is awesome, took me a while to figure out. Just goes to show you how end game books and analysis can be wrong....in some situations.
The position comes from a book: Pandolfini's Endgame Course.

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Originally posted by Drumbo
According to the Oxford Chess Encyclopedia, QvR with bare kings left, white wins, the mate should take no more than 31 moves.
That's if your opponent knows what he's doing. You might maybe want to start counting moves.

White to move and mate in 35. No less.

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Pending an error from your opponent you should resign.