draw etiquette

My partner and I had reached a point on the board where I could keep him in check forever. He kept refusing my draw offers. We both had a lot of time left, and I wasn't prepared to spend the next 35 minutes engaging in this sort of game. I resigned. 

But I'm pretty sure the game is supposed to be a draw. Am I wrong? 

Not to stray off topic... but I loled when I read that.

Can u post a link to the game plz?

He would eventually agree to a draw. If not, he would get too old to move the pieces and draw anyways.

You should not have resigned. There is the 3 move repeatition where you can claim draw. also if there is no pawn moved or no pieces captured after 60 moves, draw can be claimed.( not sure about the exact number)

it's 50

Macer75 is correct. It's 50 .see http://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf Article 5

I'm playing White.

42 is not the same as 36 and 38

Yes I just deleted my comment before seeing your post.

My deleted comment was this

This is draw the way it was played because moves 36, 38 and 42 results in identical position ( not necessarily repeat). I think this is correct reading of the article 9 of the fide rules.

Here black probably had wining position however as I said after move 42, it is legally a draw.

I believe something like this happened in a Petrosian Fischer game where Petrosian had advantage but Fischer claimed draw. It took a while for Fischer to convince Petrosian and the arbiters that his claim is legitimate

I ran into a similar situation recently.  Our position was technically drawn at the end.  I had just a king vs a rook pawn and a bishop that could not cover the queening square.  The rub was I only had a few seconds left so my opponent tried to win on time.  I had to premove a lot with only a couple seconds left, and hit the draw button frequently as I was not sure when the same position repeated 3 times.  It eventually did with about 1.5 seconds to go in a 30 minute game.

@PhoenixTTD. That was cool! Thanks for sharing. I would play live but I don't have the nerves:). I learned a lot today

@Russ_Houghton

Threefold repetition occured (the position repeated with the same side to move after 37.Qe6+... , 39.Qe6+... , and 43.Qe6+... respectively). You should have claimed a draw.

Note that a perpetual check is since a few decades just a concept rather that a formal draw condition. Still, if the defending side has means of delivering perpetual check, it will eventually boil down to either the threefold repetition rule, or the 50-move rule kicking in. Though, the game is not adjudicated as a draw automatically in such cases, but rather the draw must be claimed by a player.

If this was on chess.com, you have to click the draw button to claim a draw by repetition.  I think it should be automatic, but it isn't.  I only found out when it happened to me.

What sense would it make for it to be automatic, if the rule is that it needs to be claimed by a side interested in a draw?

In OTB, you don't have an arbiter popping up at your board automagically to adjudicate the game just because a threefold repetition occured or 50 moves have passed. As a matter of fact, you need to figure out for yourself in the first place that said rules actually have kicked in (at the risk of receiving a clock time penalty if you're wrong on that), which the website applet already does for you by displaying the "Claim Draw" button. All you need to do is to click it, which is equivalent to raising your hand to get the arbiter to come to your board and getting the game adjudicated.

Ok Cookie Monster, don't get mad.

Yeah ok, I was just pointing out that you have to claim the draw.  Didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.

I hate to say this, but this game was not a draw. White will run out of checks, there's no perpetual in this position. Your opponent was right to decline the draw.

You can just claim a draw if you get in the same position 3 times