FIFTY MOVE RULE

According to Chess Amateur (1920) the rule was used for the first time during the 1883 London tournament. A player must agree to a draw if requested by the other player when at least 50 consecutive move-pairs have been played without a reversible move (i.e., a capture or pawn move) being made. The rule was originally introduced by FIDE in the 1920s. It was recently increased to 75 for certain special positions that have been shown by computerised endgame analysis to be winnable only in more than 50 pairs of irreversible moves against best defence.

Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already. Boris Spassky
1988 NIC
When you see a good move, look for a better one Emanuel Lasker
It isn’t important what comes off the board, but what stays on! Yasser Seirawan
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did” Magnus Carlsen
2017
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein

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FIFTY MOVE RULE

FIFTY MOVE RULE

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