Author: Bill Gletsos
Date: 20:08:57 05/16/00
Artcile 10 is one of the articles that causes the most discussion with the
FIDE rules commission.
Prior to the new laws of chess which came into effect on 1st July 97 after
being adopted by the 67th Fide Congress in Sept/Oct 96 the wording of sudden
death rules used to allow a player to claim a draw if he was clearly winning OR
his opponent was making no effort to win except by on the clock. The removal of
the words clearly winning and being replaced by the term "normal means" was to
stop people who had a winning position but very short of time claiming a draw
due to bad time management on their part.
Even in a simple position of KP V K where the defending king has the
opposition should not be immediately declared drawn by the arbiter under article
10.2a. According to the rules commission the arbiter should rule the players to
play on under 10.2b and provided the player with the lone king shows he knows
how to maintian the opposition then the arbiter should declare the game drawn
even if the player with the long kings flag falls by using article 10.2c.
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