Refusing to draw
No. I hate it when people think they are entitled to tell me when I need to accept their draw offer. The position may look drawn to you, I say prove it
Well, if it's either draw by stalemate or draw by insufficient material, then I'd say accept the offer.
Well, if it's either draw by stalemate or draw by insufficient material, then I'd say accept the offer.
In both cases you've mentioned (stalemate, insufficient material) there is nothing to accept - the draw is declared automatically by the system.
Before you can reasonably expect somebody to agree to your conclusion that it is a "drawn position" and criticize them for not accepting your draw offer, you must be able to correctly identify when a position is in fact drawn and be able to play well enough to not lose anyway. If you cannot win from a simple overwhelming position, nobody should be accepting your draw offers in even positions.
Here's a recent game where as white you had an easy win on turn 46, being ahead by a rook and pawn against lone king, over 7 minutes on the clock and an obvious easy winning plan (move the rook back to f1 and queen the pawn), yet the game was drawn by 50 move rule on move 130 when you couldnt figure out how to checkmate with rook vs king . Why would anybody ever accept your draw offer in a "drawn position" if you cant win a "won position"?
You are rated around 1000 so presumably play other people rated around the same level. The number of positions that are 'definitely a draw' at that level are a lot fewer than at higher levels! Stalemate ends the game instantly and the 50-move rule or 3-fold repetition can both be claimed.
For some reason online (live) chess, at least on this site, does not distinguish between claiming a draw and offering one so you can just keep spamming the same button until a 3-move repetition happens if you really want, with no need for any kind of skill on your part at understanding whether a repetition really did take place.