The game is drawn if the same position occurs three times with the same player to move, and with each player having the same set of legal moves each time.
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Quotes of the Day
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.
W. Steinitz
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.
Jan Timman 1993
Unfortunately this gentlemanlike behaviour among chessplayers is out of fashion. It’s my principle that you should respect your opponent as much as you respect yourself.
Lajos Portisch 1990
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016