Originally posted by mnelsonPsshhht! you think it's not brilliant to win from a losing position.???
It's lame! It goes against the strategic brilliance that is chess.
It's like a soccer game that ends in 0-0 tie, or a race that finishes under a caution flag. WTF??
It's far less elegant than the stalemate. Some stalemates are 10x more clever than many checkmates.
I think that the person that forces the perpetual check should lose -- plain and simple. It's an unsportman-like ending.
sigh... some people amaze me these days...