About Satyajit Das Expertise Ask me anything related to CHESS. Give me a tricky situation,ask me any chess rule, or some tips to defeat your opponent, or any hidden moves. I'll give you the best answer available. I dont consult any software. I have my own way to analyze and i give you my mind. Please dont ask me any championship dates etc. For that better consult FIDE website.
Experience I have been playing chess since 15 years. Gone through various phases of the game winning some and also losing some.longest winning streak:89 games.Won many championships and a registered member of Gameknot.com, chesshere.com, chess.com, chesscube.com
Education/Credentials Engineer (Electronics and Communication).
Awards and Honors State champion for three consecutive years. Under 19 chess champion, 2000. Awarded by AICF (All India Chess Federation).
Runner up in National Chess Championship, Dehradun.
Question Will you tell me all the possible ways in which a chess game can end in a draw. Please describe stalemate also
Answer Hi Robert,
There are basically 4 types of draw according to FIDE rules:
1. Stalemate- If the player on turn has no legal move but is not in check, this is stalemate and the game is a draw.
2. Mutual agreement- A player may offer a draw to his opponent at any stage of a game. If the opponent accepts, the game is a draw.
3. Threefold repetition- If an identical position has occurred three times, or will occur after the player on turn makes his move, the player on move may claim a draw. In such a case the draw is not automatic - a player must claim it.
4. Fifty move rule - If at least fifty moves (by each side) have passed with no pawn being moved and no capture being made, a draw may be claimed by either player. Here again, the draw is not automatic and rather must be claimed.
Other types of draw:
1. Impossibility of checkmate - if a position arises in which neither player could possibly give checkmate by a series of legal moves, the game is a draw. This is usually because there is insufficient material left. Combinations with insufficient material to checkmate are:
a. King versus king
b. King and bishop versus king
c. King and knight versus king
d. King and bishop versus king and bishop with the bishops on the same color.
2. Perpetual check— Where one player gives a series of checks from which the other player cannot escape—is a draw, but in fact there is no specific provision for this in the laws of chess. However, any perpetual check situation will eventually be claimable as a draw either under the fifty move rule or by threefold repetition. In perpetual check situations, a draw by agreement is likely.
