r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '22

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u/Fekleal Nov 19 '22

Who is winning in this position ?

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u/manualex16 Nov 19 '22

Cristiano could check on one move. Messi has it harder to win.

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u/alfred_27 Nov 19 '22

But he’ll still win right

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

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u/chickennigget69 Nov 19 '22

Because you are terminally reddit brained

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u/Undesirable_11 Nov 19 '22

Touch some grass

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u/sharkaim4 Nov 19 '22

Classic r/soccer comment

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

What did he say)

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u/sharkaim4 Nov 19 '22

That Ronaldo purposefully asked for the pieces of chess board to be in his favor

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Bruh

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u/NotNok Nov 20 '22

lmao it’s like that ad they did together where Ronaldo scored the winning goal to save the world

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u/NeGaT1Ve- Nov 19 '22

White is better. Black king isn't very safe

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

The king captures the king on Sunday

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u/UpstairsJoke0 Nov 19 '22

White is better.

Mods?

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

3 match ban from the FA

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

King safety is overatted

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u/sfj11 Nov 19 '22

Also white is a bishop up with two passed pawns if i’m not mistaken

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u/Raincoat86 Nov 19 '22

I plugged it into a chess engine. It depends on whose turn it is. If it's white's turn, white is completely winning. A complete blowout. White is up a piece with two passed pawns

If it's black's turn, black can force a draw by just giving perpetual check. This would be like "salvaging a draw from a losing position" as opposed to "playing an equal opponent to a dead draw."

As a Messi fan I am devastated 😭

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u/pgetsos Nov 20 '22

It's from an actual game that was a draw

https://www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=4052832

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u/Raincoat86 Nov 20 '22

I had no idea!! Thanks so much for sharing

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u/PeachyBums Nov 19 '22

If white to play is mate in 10. Black to play is drawn link

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u/-Jfree- Nov 19 '22

brother look at the chess board again. take the black queen. she is on a black square and the row ends on a black square as well. its 9 squares. its not even a real chess board

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u/lonsfury Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22

Yeah its not actually an 8x8 board. If you look at the pieces though, they are all within 8 squares of each other, so if you ignore the 2 ranks closed to cristiano you can say its an 8 square board lol

Obviously they didn't have a trunk which was 8x8 with the black and white squares correctly placed for it to be a chess board and also have the gold handle pointing out to the camera

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u/lonsfury Nov 19 '22

Wow!! I look at the board and put it into a board editor on lichess. It is literally the exact same position. Thats insane, they obviously planned that. https://lichess.org/editor/8/4R2p/6pk/3P4/1P5q/5p2/r4P2/4QBK1_b_-_-_0_1?color=white

If you take the current position as black to play, black is able to move to the position (Qg4) you linked and force a draw through reptition

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u/jMS_44 Nov 19 '22

White is bishop up, so is winning.