@venda
Dave, I may be wrong as well, but I'm pretty sure you will need to claim a draw whenever you think the conditions exist for one. So if you aren't sure or even if you think a draw situation exists, just claim the draw and then move. If the claim is not valid, it is ignored and the game continues.
The only exception I know of is a stalemate, which is automatically recognized and declared.
@mwmiller saidCheers.
@venda
Dave, I may be wrong as well, but I'm pretty sure you will need to claim a draw whenever you think the conditions exist for one. So if you aren't sure or even if you think a draw situation exists, just claim the draw and then move. If the claim is not valid, it is ignored and the game continues.
The only exception I know of is a stalemate, which is automatically recognized and declared.
I thought there was something "automatic"
@venda saidDave,
Cheers.
I thought there was something "automatic"
I also thought it has been automatic, did it change with the New Format? Or was always that way I wonder. I really haven't been in that position a lot of times, in fact I can't recall a situation where I was, but must have been at some point with all my games played.
-VR
In my memeory there was never an automatic draw with insufficient material, but it always possible to claim.
I might be lured into looking in twenty year old posts to support my memory...
Edit: What a journey through the olden times.
I found two threads in which the necessity to CLAIM the draw has been discussed 20 years+
Thread 13687
Thread 8827