Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 14:07:45 06/30/05
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On June 30, 2005 at 15:32:32, James T. Walker wrote: >I reached this position vs a CM9K personality as black and CM9K claimed a win on >time. > >[D]8/8/4b3/5pk1/6pp/8/4N3/6K1 b - - 0 61 It's unsportsman like for white to try and win on time here, I think he has to take a draw if you offer it. I believe that you would be able to call an arbiter and claim a draw as black. It once happend to me in a KR-KRPPP ending where I was on the losing side. He had only 15 secs remaining and needed more than that to mate. It ended in a draw because I was able to sac my rook and be stalemated, but afterwards we discussed the rules with the arbiter. As it happened my opponent didn't offer a draw, because he wanted to win, however he believed he was entitled to demand a draw afterwards should he lose on time because "I had been unsportsman like". I disagreed with that because I definitely would have accepted a draw had he offered, so since he went all out trying to win he should also risk losing! The arbiter said that he would have ruled a draw for black if black had lost on time. Frankly I think the arbiter didn't know the rules too well, it would be interesting to hear an official FIDE response to that senario. During the game you can probably claim a technical draw in e.g. KR-KR if you have too little time left for the 50 moves. Still, I seriously doubt you can claim anything at all _after_ the game has ended. -S.
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