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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
game , or a particularposition in a game, deemed likely to end in adraw . Often used inchess .
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Examples
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Further exchanges would have left the players with a drawish rook with equal number of pawns endgame.
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The game simplified into a ending with Bishop of opposite colors which always has a drawish reputation.
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Probably the explanation was that the exchange of rooks makes thte game more drawish (see the 1996 game Topalov-Anand where Anand lost his queen and a pawn for rook and knight but managed to draw rather easily with the other rooks off the board), and since Kamsky was the only one with winning chances in that game.
RO.RSS 2010
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Bishop of opposite colors which always has a drawish reputation.
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He succeeded in avoiding one sort of drawish position, but Topalov had no difficulty constructing another sort.
The Chess Mind 2009
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Top-seeded IM Thej Kumar of South West Railway (Mysore) accepted an early 23-move draw offer from Pune's Sohan Phadke after the game appeared to dissipate into a drawish bishop ending.
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The most drawish player was Petar Trifunovic, who scored
ChessVibes 2009
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Declan, 15 January 2009, 6.40: @Manu: Carlsen always takes his chances, even in drawish positions he keeps pushing, this entails risks.
ChessVibes 2009
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Some gives white a huge advantage, some are too drawish.
ChessBase News 2009
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Henrik Carlsen on MagnusChess, writes, "In the second game, the symmetrical pawn ending with two rooks and a bishop versus a knight looked very drawish but after Ivanchuk allowed the exchange of rooks Nakamura outplayed him in the ensuing ending."
ChessVibes 2008
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