> Serious chess player here. I'm sure that Rook or Queen odds is a win but it is not a simple matter to force equal trades in chess games. It may be easier to force them with those odds (I never studied odds games much so I don't know a ton about how the dynamics change -- but neither have you), but I don't see why.
Seriously? Tournament chess player here with experience playing a range of levels up to and including grandmasters. You've got to be off your rocker if you think that it isn't easier to force trades with a QUEEN advantage.
White needs but play to the center. Play to open up the board will be inescapable. Black's only recourse (to avoid exchanges) would be to effectively give up the center or attempt some kind of closed defense like the Sicilian Dragon. Even in the case of the latter, he'll be forced into positions that will allow for the equal exchange of material or near equal material.
Assuming black moves only with the intent to avoid exchanges, he'll land himself in a terrible tactical position.
Lastly why are you comparing this kind of game to STANDARD lines that would involve balanced material? This is not a standard game. Did you seriously spend a paragraph talking about the French, King's Indian, and Najdorf? Of these, exchanges are not only highly probable, they are INEVITABLE regardless of, "...some lines for example (I mean lines with e5 by black, not the piece sac lines) but when you do so it's not actually very good for white." Virtually no standard line can be bad for white when he is up a QUEEN.
The point being: even if white is down a pawn or two pawns or even three pawns, he is STILL ahead. White has a considerable advantage in making exchanges because they are implicitly better for him even when he may lose minor material.
To anyone here saying that a queen is just a theoretical advantage: you know nothing about chess if you seriously believe that. I'd challenge you to play against a master, not even a grandmaster, with those odds and I guarantee you'll lose every game. You won't even stand a chance of drawing. Forget that. You will lose, horribly.
It isn't just a heuristic, the queen is an extremely powerful piece, with black down a queen the remainder of play is EXTREMELY unbalanced.
Whether or not you can prove this completely is another matter, but who cares? It's an obvious win in a perfect world. There's little to no mystery there. And it's hardly a reflection of the mechanics of an actual game, given how unbalanced it becomes.
Seriously? Tournament chess player here with experience playing a range of levels up to and including grandmasters. You've got to be off your rocker if you think that it isn't easier to force trades with a QUEEN advantage.
White needs but play to the center. Play to open up the board will be inescapable. Black's only recourse (to avoid exchanges) would be to effectively give up the center or attempt some kind of closed defense like the Sicilian Dragon. Even in the case of the latter, he'll be forced into positions that will allow for the equal exchange of material or near equal material.
Assuming black moves only with the intent to avoid exchanges, he'll land himself in a terrible tactical position.
Lastly why are you comparing this kind of game to STANDARD lines that would involve balanced material? This is not a standard game. Did you seriously spend a paragraph talking about the French, King's Indian, and Najdorf? Of these, exchanges are not only highly probable, they are INEVITABLE regardless of, "...some lines for example (I mean lines with e5 by black, not the piece sac lines) but when you do so it's not actually very good for white." Virtually no standard line can be bad for white when he is up a QUEEN.
The point being: even if white is down a pawn or two pawns or even three pawns, he is STILL ahead. White has a considerable advantage in making exchanges because they are implicitly better for him even when he may lose minor material.
To anyone here saying that a queen is just a theoretical advantage: you know nothing about chess if you seriously believe that. I'd challenge you to play against a master, not even a grandmaster, with those odds and I guarantee you'll lose every game. You won't even stand a chance of drawing. Forget that. You will lose, horribly.
It isn't just a heuristic, the queen is an extremely powerful piece, with black down a queen the remainder of play is EXTREMELY unbalanced.
Whether or not you can prove this completely is another matter, but who cares? It's an obvious win in a perfect world. There's little to no mystery there. And it's hardly a reflection of the mechanics of an actual game, given how unbalanced it becomes.