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When you cannot win, you may be able to force a draw. A game is drawn by agreement between the two players. A player may propose a draw only after having just made a move, and before stopping his or her clock and starting the opponent’s clock. The opponent, by making a move, rejects the proposal. A game is drawn whan a player demonstrates that the same position has happened three times, the same player having the move each time. The position is the same if chessmen of the same kind and color occupy the same squares everywhere on the board and the possible moves of all of the chessmen (including en passant capture and castling) are the same. If all the chessmen are on the same squares but the player ccould have made an en passant capture the first time, but not the second time, then the position is different. [It is common for positions to occur where the players prefer to move chessmen back and forth because moving anywhere else would result in loss of material or a worse position.] A game is drawn when 50 moves have been made without the movement of any pawn or the capture of any chessman. The right to claim a draw belongs to the player whose opponent has only the king remaining. A game is drawn when there is a stalemate, i.e. when the king of the player having the move is not in check and the player cannot make any legal move. |