Author: Will Singleton
Date: 10:32:08 03/19/03
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On March 19, 2003 at 12:13:27, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 19, 2003 at 12:09:01, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>What is the official rule: as far as I know whenever the same position has >>actually occurred three times on the board, you can claim a draw. Is it required >>that the color to move is also the same? >> >>Best regards, >>Bas. > >Yes >It also required that the list of the legal moves are the same. > >If castling was legal in the first time and illegal in the 3th time it is not a >draw(same for the ep rule). > >Uri That is right. 10.10 The game is drawn, upon a claim by the player having the move, when the same position, for the third time: (a) is about to appear, if he first writes the move on his scoresheet and declares to the arbiter his intention of making this move; or (b) has just appeared, the same player having the move each time. The position is considered the same if pieces of the same kind and colour occupy the same squares, and if all the possible moves of all the pieces are the same, including the rights to castle [at some future time] or to capture a pawn "en passant". Will
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