SBD wrote:
Always good to see ideas here

Yes but it helps if they're at least one of (a) new and (b) good.
Knee-jerking against the draw `problem' by banning agreed draws and
making stalemate the same thing as checkmate is neither of these
things.


On Dec 6, 12:54 pm, zdrakec wrote:
If he has no other legal move, we may regard this as a form of
stalemate, perhaps. I am not completely sure, but I think that this
rule would do away with perpetual check.

It would not do away with perpetual check, since that isn't part of
the rules, but in a perpetual, there is a three-fold.

`Perpetual check' is just an agreement by the players that one player
can keep checking the other one forever, which will necessarily
involve either a threefold repetition or fifty consecutive moves
without a capture or pawn move.

But why so many games have to be decisive is a mystery to me. A
well-played draw is a good thing in my eyes.

Quite.


Dave.

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