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5-Fold Repitition?
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No, the game will automatically draw after 5 repetitions.
Bozocow wrote:
No, the game will automatically draw after 5 repetitions.
News to me, never had that happen before.
Mar 30, 2016
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FIDE changed its rules recently. Maybe the site is following this change, which is actually good news.
According to the rule, you can claim a draw upon a 3-fold repetitions, but you have to meet some conditions to do so (study the FIDE rules for more information)
On the other hand, if the same position actually repeats 5 consecutive times in a game (for example, on moves 80, 82, 84, 86, 88) - it's automatically a draw, nobody has to claim anything.
Let's look at the 50 move rule alongside this:
50 move/75 move rule: a draw is claimable after 50 moves without progress, but is only forced if the game stalls for 25 more.
3-fold/5-fold repetition: exactly the same thing- 3 is claimable, 5 forced.
rubikscuber44 wrote:
Let's look at the 50 move rule alongside this:
50 move/75 move rule: a draw is claimable after 50 moves without progress, but is only forced if the game stalls for 25 more.
3-fold/5-fold repetition: exactly the same thing- 3 is claimable, 5 forced.
This thread is 9 years old. If not back then, now it is an automatic draw in all time controls when the third repetition of position is made.
Blitz chess on this site uses 5-fold repetition. Why does it use this rule when the accepted value is 3?