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Avatar of RexNachos

In the official rules of chess you can only offer a draw AFTER you have made your move – which is fair, correct and proper.

Yet I am currently playing a game where my opponent made me an offer BEFORE he made his move.

I ask Chessica, the AI bot on the Support page and it told me that Chess.com allows this.

I think this is very wrong, if you opponent wants to offer a draw then they should first make a move so that you have the correct information to help you make a decision. Allowing opponent to make draw offers whenever is fundamentally changing the rules of chess.

We should ask Chess.com to make the appropriate changes so that their site follows the fundamental rules of chess.

What do you think?

Avatar of JatinStrikes

Does it matter that much, I mean it is online chess

Avatar of RexNachos

Of course it matters. Chess.com presents itself as a serious chess site and yet it does not follow the basic rules of chess on a very important matter. 

Avatar of bigD521

In the official rules of chess you can only offer a draw AFTER you have made your move

True, but you forgot the rest of the rule ~~~> and before pressing his/her clock.

Online once a move is made, it immediately becomes the other players turn to move without a chance to make an offer.

~~ then they should first make a move so that you have the correct information to help you make a decision.~~~

If the correct information is not there --- Decline

Avatar of bigD521
bigD521 wrote:

In the official rules of chess you can only offer a draw AFTER you have made your move

True,(edited to add - for over the board) but you forgot the rest of the rule ~~~> and before pressing his/her clock.

Online once a move is made, it immediately becomes the other players turn to move without a chance to make an offer.

~~ then they should first make a move so that you have the correct information to help you make a decision.~~~

If the correct information is not there --- Decline

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

The site is not bound by OTB rules governing official rated play. It's also not really possible here for live play, especially with premoves, to require draw offers after a move.

In Daily it would be slightly different, but then Daily/Correspondence doesn't have the same rules as OTB Chess either

Avatar of chessohrough

Thanks for the information! Going to switch to OTB soon

Avatar of chessohrough

Appreciate you :))