FIDE abolishes two types of draws!

Tomorrow, on July 1, the new rules of chess come into effect.

https://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=207&view=article

In addition to fiddling around with some technical issues in the Competition Rules, FIDE also made a stunning change to the Basic Rules of Play. FIDE eliminated two types of draws: the triple repetition draw and the 50 moves draw.

Both draws can still be claimed at official FIDE events - you can still find them in Article 9, alongside other competition-only draws like the 75 moves rule. But they will be removed from Article 5, which lists the ways a chess game ends in ALL matches, both competitive and non-competitive.

So, the next time you're playing a casual game with your uncle on Sunday afternoon, and he tries to short-circuit a forced mate sequence by claiming triple repetition, you can laugh in his face and say "Haha, sucker! That's not one of the rules of standard chess anymore - FIDE says so!"

You missed April Fools Day by a few months.

FIDE also says that chess was invented by aliens.

Ilyumzinov is a God.

so this is a joke or what?

No, Ilyumzhinov is God of an alien species.

That was part of the previous rules too but they have reworded to clarify it.

To the OP, the draw claim rules are still in effect for the game in general, though the probably should have included a line stating the game also concludes by a valid draw claim.

One thing is SURE;  you can not have a rule or no rule and then have a FIDE official decide otherwise.  The moves I made during the game COUNTED on the RULE.  AND;  each FIDE official is different !!    I can see now that some officials will become VERY rich.

The 50 rule stuff does not affect anything. You never see games where there are 50 moves in a row without any capture, let alone 75. 

I see them on a regular basis.  Also it is without a capture or a pawn move.  Actually I played a game two nights ago which probably could have used the five fold repetition to end the game. My opponent had an extra rook vs several passed pawns but if I stopped checking she would have checkmated me with her queen and rook.  There was one possible way for me to checkmate with a half epaulette mate but there was also the fact that my opponent was down to a minute and occasionally seconds on her clock for about twenty moves.  Eventually she offered a draw and I accepted.

I am telling the truth. 

Those games exist but they are extremely extremely rare. In all your life you will have no more than 2 or 3 games like that. 

The rule is still important, maybe only at lower levels, for endgames like b+n having to be efficient.

Both draws can still be claimed at official FIDE events - you can still find them in Article 9, alongside other competition-only draws like the 75 moves rule. But they will be removed from Article 5, which lists the ways a chess game ends in ALL matches, both competitive and non-competitive.

 This is very bad,  not good for chess.  Let's assume what someone wrote above is correct.  Can we get the titles of article 5 and 9 ?  If 5 is the way chess games end and the rule isn't listed, the game can't END. If 9 is the way games draw, then the game   is a draw, but it can't end,  FIDE isn't making sense !!!   AND one argues the draw does not count in the event, since it is a draw but never ended.  So we would now have a problem with timing.

When was this?

It's a joke!

I had no idea..