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Doubt: results 1-0
Date:
7/13/2004 4:04:38 PM Mountain Daylight
Time
From: César
To:
service@chess-poster.com
To whom it may
concern:
I am a beginner
(I would say a rookie) and I have learned some things by only
reading and most of the info has been taken through the internet
mostly from your website which by the way is great.
There is
something that I don't understand well because some games seem
to end as if there's no winner, I mean without checkmate. I
don't get exactly how is determined who won the game between
Seirawan and Ivanchuk in the Openings section of the King's
Indian Defense which shows a final result of 1-0, but how do I
know who won and why?
If I were playing
that game with a friend of mine, surely after move 22. we will
keep playing many more moves afterwards.
Thanks and
greetings,
César
chess-poster.com
Dear César,
In professional
matches, most of the games (if not all) end in a different way
other than checkmate. Thus, 1-0 means white pieces won and 0-1
means black pieces did. When no mate is produced, it may be that
the losing player lost on time, or that he resigned because he
realized he had not a chance to win whatsoever.
Another
possibility is that the game was adjourned, drawn by the the
three move rule, stalemate or draw by insufficiency of mating
material. Most games in our site end in this way with the
exception of a few that end in a checkmate such as Bobby Fischer
-The game of the Century, Hal 9000 Computer, etc.
If you analyze
again the game you mention in your letter, you may find that the
black King had no good moves left and it was just a matter of
few moves for the white Queen to checkmate it. Ivanchuk decided
to resign other than be checkmated.
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