50 move rule: Did you know?

The fifty-move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty consecutive moves (fifty moves by each side). The intended reason for the rule is so that a player with no chance to win cannot be obstinate and play on indefinitely (Hooper & Whyld 1992:134), or seek a win purely due to an opponent's fatigue. All of the basic checkmates can be accomplished in well under fifty moves.

In the 20th century it was discovered that some positions of certain endgames can only be won in more than fifty moves (without a capture or a pawn move). The rule was changed to include certain exceptions in which one hundred moves were allowed with particular material combinations. However, more and more exceptions were discovered and in 1992 FIDE abolished all such exceptions and reinstated the strict fifty-move rule.  Source: Wikopedia

great rule!!!...thanks for explaining this

If someone has a megadatabase check out in 2007 in the under 18 german internet championships both games by the same person went 250 moves each.  (Search by move) His Fide score was 2100 and he had a knight and 7 pawns vs a king at about move 50.

Then in the finals he took 250 moves where he won with 4 queens and 1 pawn vs a king. Whats happening in these games.

I'd post them but it would take too long.