After having a three-time repetition, click "Draw" to claim the draw. After all, you have to claim it even over the board.
No repitition rule?
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I believe that one player must press the draw button after the moves have been repeated three times . The draw does not automatically happen without this .
In fact, there IS a repetition rule, as written at the rules page:
- A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times (though not necessarily three times in a row)
http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess#draws
Feb 24, 2014
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Pelaaja_X wrote:
In fact, there IS a repetition rule, as written at the rules page:
A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times (though not necessarily three times in a row)If that's the way it's worded, it's inaccurate. There's more to it than that:
- The EXACT POSITION (a pawn move changes the position) must occur 3 times
- All 3 occurrences must be with the same player to move - If the same position occurs 4 times with White to move twice and Black to move twice, it's not 3-fold!
- All 3 occurrences with the same player to move, said player must have the same legal options. If en-passant was available the first time, but not after that, the first position is not repeated. If on the first go-round you could legally castle (nothing of Black's attacks e1, f1, or g1, King and Rook haven't moved, nothing in between), but you move Ke1-d1, Black moves, you go back, and he goes back, this is NOT 2-fold because the first time White could castle, and now he can't!
recently played a game where me and a guy went back and forth with the same 2 moves for ...a riddiculous number of turns. This is completly unfair, with this rule absent, a player could end up playing the clock instead of playing chess!