Even if you're winning, you still need to finish of your opponent. the game was repeated 3 times, and the game is drawn.
Is this game drawn by repetition - Not fair?
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What I am saying is that there was no repetition for 3 times - may be 2 times.
These were the last moves:
Repitition started from 46th move.
I was going to play a different move for the 49th move.
No, from the 45th.
Ok. agreed. My mistake. But I did not play Rf6 again to complete the third repetition in the 49th move.
dalephilly wrote:
Right, immediately after white makes moves 45, 47, and 49, the positions are all identical. Three or more is the prerequisite to claim a draw by repetition, and it is a valid claim. You are under the mistaken assumption that it is only the position at the 'end' of a move (i.e. after black's 49th move) that matters. It doesn't work that way; as soon as white makes his 49th move he can immediately claim draw by repetition without giving black a chance to move.
Well, you should be right. In that case, no hard feelings. I will be more careful next time onwards. 
Insufficient Material is much trickier to untangle for the uninitiated.
dalephilly wrote:
No problem, it's easy to get confused on these kinds of topics. In the future, however, there's really no reason to make two different forum threads for the same thing, especially in such a short time frame.
Thanks. I am sorry to make two different forum threads. I made the second in the help and support section as there was no reply in this thread first.
goldendog wrote:
Insufficient Material is much trickier to untangle for the uninitiated.
Well, English is not my native language. What is the meaning of uninitiated? I hope you are not insulting me.
At the end of 11 th (Black) move too there has been a triple repeat !!
The game has extended far beyond it. :)
sekhar1 wrote:
goldendog wrote:
Insufficient Material is much trickier to untangle for the uninitiated.
Well, English is not my native language. What is the meaning of uninitiated? I hope you are not insulting me.
Uninitiated=not exposed to the material
Everyone gets their chance to learn here, I hope.
sekhar1 wrote:
goldendog wrote:
Insufficient Material is much trickier to untangle for the uninitiated.
Well, English is not my native language. What is the meaning of uninitiated? I hope you are not insulting me.
I checked the dictionary. I want to say that I am not a newbie. I know about the insufficient material part. And also this was not my first game drawn by repetition. But, I always thought there should be 3 full moves - by both white and black for the draw.
According to my understanding of the rules of Chess, the player whose move when made will constitute repetion of position may claim a draw prior to making the move.
It's three repetitions of a position, not a move. If the same position, with the same player to move, is reached three times, either player can play a draw. So, for instance, I think this would be a draw:
Just one question that interests me: If the repetition occurs early in a game without a draw, can you declare a draw later in the game? It would seem slightly cheap.
I don't think that there was repetition for 3 times in the following game:
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=313373173
I should have won it as my opponent was under time pressure, me being up with two pawns with only a few pieces on the board and he being lower rated than me.
What do you think?
Thanks a lot.