Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 12:03:25 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 I always belived the position should occur to times before while you can claim the draw on the third time, if it was your turn to draw all the times. But this may work out the same or...? Torstein >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, 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."
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