Regarding FIDE's 75 move rule.
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Feb 22, 2019
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Your opponent was just a sore loser. You were right (assuming the things really played out the way you described). Also, you can claim the draw after 50 moves (see 50-move rule). Only pawn moves and captures reset the counter.
Feb 22, 2019
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If he couldn‘t checkmate you, why did you „give him the win“ anyway?
You can only lose in two ways:
1. You get checkmated, or
2. you resign.
You can only lose in two ways:
1. You get checkmated, or
2. you resign.
Well, because he is honestly pretty smug and while I really do not like his attitude (he tends to throw pieces while he moves them, often making other closer pieces fall, which makes me get more suspicious in case he might cheat and put them in wrong squares), he is a better player, and since I'm new to the game(started playing somewhat seriously in November and had my first tournament a week ago, I won 4 of my 5 games for my team and chess club), I need all the practice I can get, and he is better than me overall.
I let him win so that we could begin another. I just wanted to practice playing with the black pieces without following any opening and just my overall chess knowledge to check what errors I make.
ChessianHorse wrote:
Your opponent was just a sore loser. You were right (assuming the things really played out the way you described). Also, you can claim the draw after 50 moves (see 50-move rule). Only pawn moves and captures reset the counter.
He was actually a sore drawer.
barryrittmann wrote:
ChessianHorse wrote:
Your opponent was just a sore loser. You were right (assuming the things really played out the way you described). Also, you can claim the draw after 50 moves (see 50-move rule). Only pawn moves and captures reset the counter.
He was actually a sore drawer.
Good joke. And it took you less than 5 years to work it out. Nice!
I was playing a casual game OTB with a guy from our new chess club, I was losing a game by material and position ( he had a mate in 3), the only salvation I had was that since his Queen was tied defending a piece right in front of my King who would deliver the forced mate, I sacrificed my last Bishop to open his King up to a perpetual check, (I basically could continuously keep checking his king in all direction with my Queen), he had 3 choices, either move his king up the board and keep getting checked, or block some of the checks with a bishop (I basically had him running in circles with the King using his bishop as a barrier) or lose the forced mate, the checks kept going over 75 moves, thats when I mentioned the rule, and he got super pissed and said that rule only applied when "no possible pawn moves, or other piece rules applied", he said since he moved his bishop from time to time, the 75 move counter reset every time he moved his bishop, since he was a more experienced player I stopped checking him and just let him win, I then found FIDE's rulebook and this is what I found :
"75-move rule: 9.6.2 The game is drawn if the last 75 moves have been completed by each player without the movement of any pawn and without any capture."
When I argued with our vice-president, he said that he didn't know and he would ask, while my opponent just argued that since his king was the one getting checked, only he could offer the draw and not me.
So which is it, was the game forced into a draw by the rule, or was I simply mistaken?