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Yeah, I'm pretty sure this rule's implemented correctly here -- I wouldn't mind seeing the game in which you feel it's not.
cinayakoshka wrote:
A draw is supposed to happen, whether both opponents agree or not, any time there happens a third repetition of exactly the same position.
At Chess.com, however, any player can circumvent this rule by introducing at least one intermediate step, so that the repetitions only happen every four moves or more.
... snip ...If a third repetition of excatly the same position happens a player can claim a draw at that exact time. If a player does not claim the draw there is no draw and the game continues. Whether the third repetition happened next move or ten moves later does NOT matter. What matters is whether a player claims the draw at the moment the third repetion happens. A draw is NOT supposed to happen in such a situation. It must be claimed or else the game goes on.
That's interesting. Do you always leave your source out when you quote an authority? Because this looks like your personal opinion, Blueknightshade.
Just for reference, this is most likely the game OP played. For a good laugh, you will note that moves 36 through 127 were attempts by OP to get the server to draw. A draw could have been claimed, of course, on move 42.
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=183847023
cinayakoshka wrote:
That's interesting. Do you always leave your source out when you quote an authority? Because this looks like your personal opinion, Blueknightshade.
It is certainly not an opinion, it is simply the chess rules. Your comments gives the idea that you don't know the chess rules:
References:
1) From this site chess.com :
http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess.html#draws
2) FIDE, Laws of chess:
http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=124&view=article
I'm surprised you even bothered to dig up the references after he was so rude to you for being helpful. I don't know that I would have spent another second on trying to help him personally.
You coward, you run away, when you lose! I had to wait 3 minutes
A draw is supposed to happen, whether both opponents agree or not, any time there happens a third repetition of exactly the same position.
At Chess.com, however, any player can circumvent this rule by introducing at least one intermediate step, so that the repetitions only happen every four moves or more.
Are the programmers at Chess.com so inept that they cannot handle this simple rule?
I'm not likely to "upgrade" my account here, while I cannot expect the rules to be as usual. Please hire more experienced programmers, and pay them appropriately. Meanwhile, I'll stick with other venues.
That chess.com cannot accomodate my wish to turn my ipad to one side is also incredible. My first iPad application was able to do that. Do you hire nameless contractors in third-world countries for pennies on the dollar? Because that might explain a few things....