Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:00:33 03/19/03
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On March 19, 2003 at 13:46:06, Robert Hyatt 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. > >The rule says that when it is your move, you can claim a draw if the same >position >has occurred three times previously with _everything_ identical, or you can >claim a >draw if making a move would repeat a position for the third time with everything >equal. IE you can claim a draw without moving, if the position has occurred >three >times with you on move, About the following case: >or you can say "I am going to play move XXX and I claim >a draw by repetition as the position after that move will be the third >repetition." As Ricardo pointed out, you should not only say which move you intend to play, you must write it down in the scoresheet. If for some reason the draw claim is not valid, then of course you are forced to make the move you wrote down. José.
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