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Subject: Re: Draw?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:28:02 06/15/03

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On June 15, 2003 at 17:12:17, Torstein Hall wrote:

>This game was drawn on repetition in the last team Championship in Norway! White
>was pretty angry claiming it was not a repetition. Seems like Fritz agrees with
>him! But the position on the board was repeted tree times with the same side to
>move. Why do not Fritz recognise the draw. Does other programs have the same
>opinion? Is Fritz right or does it not know the rules of the game?
>
>Torstein
>
>
>[Event "Bord 2"]
>[Site "Lag-NM, Forgruppe 2"]
>[Date "2003.05.29"]
>[Round "2"]
>[White "Aleksandar Radojicic, Kr.sund Sjakklubb"]
>[Black "FM Magnus Carlsen, Asker Schakklubb"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "A30"]
>[BlackElo "2315"]
>[PlyCount "122"]
>[EventDate "2003.05.28"]
>[SourceDate "2003.05.28"]
>
>1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O c5 5. c4 Nc6 6. a3 Be7 7. Qc2 O-O 8. d3 e5
>9. Nbd2 d4 10. b4 cxb4 11. axb4 Bxb4 12. Ba3 Bxa3 13. Rxa3 h6 14. Rb1 Re8 15.
>Ne1 Re7 16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. Bxe4 Rc7 18. Nf3 Qe7 19. Rab3 Rb8 20. Rb5 Bd7 21. Qa2
>Qd6 22. R1b2 a5 23. Rb6 Qe7 24. Qa1 Be8 25. R2b5 Ra8 26. Bxc6 Rxc6 27. Rxb7 Rc7
>28. Rb8 Rxb8 29. Rxb8 Rb7 30. Rxb7 Qxb7 31. Qxa5 f6 32. Qa2 Bh5 33. Nh4 e4 34.
>c5+ Kh7 35. Qc2 Qb4 36. Ng2 e3 37. fxe3 dxe3 38. Qc1 Bxe2 39. Nxe3 Bxd3 40. c6
>Qd4 41. c7 Ba6 42. Kf2 Bc8 43. Qd1 Qb6 44. Qd3+ f5 45. Qc4 Qb2+ 46. Nc2 Qb6+
>47. Ne3 Qb2+ 48. Qc2 Qb6 49. Ke2 Ba6+ 50. Kf2 Bc8 51. h4 h5 52. Qc3 Qd6 53. Qc4
>Qd2+ 54. Qe2 Qd7 55. Qc2 Qd6 56. Kg2 Qe5 57. Kf2 Qd6 58. Nf1 Qd4+ 59. Ke1 Qe5+
>60. Kf2 Qd4+ 61. Ne3 Qd6 1/2-1/2

Chessmaster 9000 calls it a draw. The position is the same after Black's 55th,
57th and 61st move, so that's a 3-fold draw.

jm



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