Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:34:09 04/26/01
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On April 26, 2001 at 19:09:02, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 26, 2001 at 16:19:10, Peter Berger wrote: <snipped> >>9.3 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by the player having the move, if >> >>he writes on his scoresheet, and declares to the arbiter his intention to make a >>move which shall result in the last 50 moves having been made by each player >>without the movement of any pawn and without the capture of any piece, or >>the last 50 consecutive moves have been made by each player without the movement >>of any pawn and without the capture of any piece. <snipped> >In the case of the 50 moves rules, I'm not sure. It could be that in some >positions the game could have been claimed a draw by the opponent, but he did >not claim it. Then it's my turn to move, and it could be that I have to make a >move that "resets" the 50 moves counter (for example if I am forced to move a >pawn). > >So in this case claiming the draw before moving is probably incorrect, seldomly. No claiming a draw is almost always correct even without making a move if the last 100 plies were without capture and pawn moves. The only exception is the case when the final position after 100 plies is a checkmate and some chess program lost games because of the bug of assuming that 100 plies without capture and pawn moves is a draw without checking if the final position is checkmate. If you look at the or in 9.3 you can see that the rules say that claiming a draw without making a move is also correct. The only case when you have to make a move to ask for a draw is the case when the last 99 plies and not the last 100 plies were without capture. Uri
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