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Umm??? Why?

Umm??? Why?

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Can anyone tell me why my opponent decided to resign this game?

Game 1254665

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Because he's three pawns down?

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Originally posted by schakuhr
Because he's three pawns down?
Still, three pawns is not a major advantage...

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Originally posted by schakuhr
Because he's three pawns down?
and because his position is hopeless. he has no counterplay and your pieces swarm around his king...

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Originally posted by Wildfire
Still, three pawns is not a major advantage...
Not a major advantage? It's practically a whole piece! At least he respected your ability enough to believe that you wouldn't blunder away the win somehow.

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Originally posted by Wildfire
Can anyone tell me why my opponent decided to resign this game?

Game 1254665
because he has style. He realised that his position is lost and he resigned like a gentleman.

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Count again. He is 4 pawns down, and no counterplay at all. Black threatens Qg3 and Nh4 with game over in few moves.

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Originally posted by Wildfire
Still, three pawns is not a major advantage...
Two pawns is almost always a winning advantage is the endgame. One pawn is sometimes enough. All you'd have to do is trade down, and you'd win. Plus your position's exceptional.

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He resigned becuase :
A : You were winning on material .
B : You could mate the opponent king.
C : All your pieces were well defended .

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Originally posted by Mephisto2
Count again. He is 4 pawns down, and no counterplay at all. Black threatens Qg3 and Nh4 with game over in few moves.
Not only are they illiterate, they can't even count.

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Originally posted by Bowmann
Not only are they illiterate, they can't even count.
Don't lump me in there with them; I could't see the position when I posted because I was at work, and the Games area is blocked by our ISP at work.

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Originally posted by Natural Science
Don't lump me in there with them; I could't see the position when I posted because I was at work, and the Games area is blocked by our ISP at work.
You make comments on positions you can't see?

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Originally posted by Bowmann
You make comments on positions you can't see?
Not ordinarily, no. My comment was just in general, not really in specific reference to that position, since I couldn't see it. But in general, 3 pawns can be considered practically a whole piece, as far as material deficit. And jusuh's post made it clear that the losing side had no compenstion for the 3 (make it 4) pawns.