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Subject: Re: Crafty and draw by repetition ?!

Author: pete

Date: 15:42:08 04/21/00

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On April 21, 2000 at 17:46:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 21, 2000 at 16:32:21, pete wrote:
>
>>Game : Crafty17.10 (winboard)- Junior6 on 2 computers ( rest really irrelevant
>>); crafty played with the "official" book.bin .
>>
>>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3
>>Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Ng5 Rf8 12.Nf3 Re8 13.Ng5 Rf8 14.Nf3
>>
>>Here crafty claimed draw by repetition !?
>
>This looks reasonable to me.  After white moves Nf3, the position is the same
>as it was after moves 10 and 12.  Nf3 is the third repetition of that position.
>

I understand : but this is not the rule as I know it : you can't claim a
position has appeared 3 times ; you can only say that with your following move
you can reach a position that was already there in the game for the 3rd time :
this is a slight but significant difference : so crafty can't claim draw here
whereas Junior could say ( after 14. Nf3 )  : " I intend Re8 and claim draw !"

I am not 100% sure but as having played tournament games for about 20 years now
I am at least _quite_ sure .

I don't have a link to FIDE rules so either way I will learn something :-)




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