Author: Dan Wulff
Date: 08:52:13 07/12/02
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>> I play white, you play black. The game goes: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. Ng1 Ng8 3. Nf3 Nf6 >>4. Ng1 Ng8 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Ng1 Ng8 7. Nf3 Nf6 ... It's perfectly legal because 3rd >>repetition must be claimed by the players. In this game, either you or me can >>claim draw by third repetition whenever we want, with or without making a move, >>because there have been some positions (4 in this case) repeated 3 or more >>times. >> I'm 100% sure about this point. >> >You're right. Either something changed in the rules over time or my memory is >failing me ;-). From the FIDE rules: > >'9.2 The game is drawn, upon a correct claim by the player having the move, when >the same position, for at least the third time (no necessarily by sequential >repetition of moves) >a) is about to appear, if he first writes his move on his scoresheet and >declares to the arbiter his intention to make this move, or >b) has just appeard, and the player claiming the draw has the move. > >Positions as in (a) and (b) are considered the same, if the same player has the >move, pieces of the same kind and colour occupy the same squares, and the >possible moves of all the pieces of both players are the same. >Positions are not the same if a pawn that could have been captured en passant >can no longer be captured or if the right to castle has been changed temporarily >or permanently.' You are wrong........ Read the above again: "is about to appear" or "has just appeared". This implies that you CANNOT claim the draw if you play on from the 3rd repetition, and for example claim a draw ten moves later. Greetings Dan Wulff (The Gandalf Team)
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