Why not?
It would've been a draw
@venter4971 said in #3:
> It would've been a draw
Who cares? You won the game, thats all! Anyway, nice game, although the opening you used in your classical games is very much similar to my bullet opening repertoire lol
> It would've been a draw
Who cares? You won the game, thats all! Anyway, nice game, although the opening you used in your classical games is very much similar to my bullet opening repertoire lol
The enpassant stalemate, it sounds cool
But how? Everyone knows en passant is forced! White even offered a draw after move 38 since they knew the draw was inevitable, but I guess they didn't account for Lichess being buggy.
That draw offer on move 38 was definitely an interesting piece of psychology by your opponent. I think it was a good one. Normally you don't do anything which might alert the opponent if you're setting a nice trap. But White probably judged that you might react to that draw offer with an angry "of course not!" and snap off the pawn without thinking, rather than with a nervous "it isn't a draw, is it? ... oh, careful!". You were careful as it turned out, but it was worth a try for your opponent!
@Brian-E said in #7:
> That draw offer on move 38 was definitely an interesting piece of psychology by your opponent. I think it was a good one. Normally you don't do anything which might alert the opponent if you're setting a nice trap. But White probably judged that you might react to that draw offer with an angry "of course not!" and snap off the pawn without thinking, rather than with a nervous "it isn't a draw, is it? ... oh, careful!". You were careful as it turned out, but it was worth a try for your opponent!
Maybe but the thing was, I said in chat that it was en passent but draw and only after that did he send me the draw request
So no big brain strategy from my opponent, I think he just forsaw the draw like @AsDaGo said but was not expecting me to commit treason against the chess gods and decline the en passent
> That draw offer on move 38 was definitely an interesting piece of psychology by your opponent. I think it was a good one. Normally you don't do anything which might alert the opponent if you're setting a nice trap. But White probably judged that you might react to that draw offer with an angry "of course not!" and snap off the pawn without thinking, rather than with a nervous "it isn't a draw, is it? ... oh, careful!". You were careful as it turned out, but it was worth a try for your opponent!
Maybe but the thing was, I said in chat that it was en passent but draw and only after that did he send me the draw request
So no big brain strategy from my opponent, I think he just forsaw the draw like @AsDaGo said but was not expecting me to commit treason against the chess gods and decline the en passent