Draws without losing points

Just looking for advice, I've trawled the forums but can't find anything.

As a way of ending a tournament without being penalised, is it possible to offer a draw early on in the game (at the start even, or before a certain number of moves have been made) and if the draw is agreed upon, will there still be the rating change (loss/gain depending of course on ratings)?

Thanks!  

You can offer draw anytime of the game but only after both the players have moved atleast once.

Also you can only offer draw,whether your opponent accepts or denies it is entirely upto them.

Yes,there will still be the rating change.

Well Mr. Bond, I'm afraid you're wrong. Thanks for your post, but if you look at my recent games, I worked out you can call a draw on a rated game and as long as you're only a few moves in, neither side actually loses rating points. 

If you knew the answer why did you ask the question!?

I'm pretty sure tournament games don't have the same allowance as non-tournament games. If you draw early on, even after one move, ratings will change.

Huh, that's interesting to know Martin, I haven't had a chance to experiment with tournement games, but I'd be interested to find out. 

I know that timeouts in the first few moves of a tournament game don't affect rating.

Just don't move. And apologise to your opponent.

Thank you for the message, but I'm just starting to play chess, I'm 9 years old. If you can not play with these, ok, I understand.