Draw by "repetition" with no repetition just similar moves

It's annoying and dumb. Please disable. Lichess calls repetition similar moves. Sometimes after just two identical moves I try a 3rd one intending to use a different strategy but Lichess cuts game short falsely calling it a draw.

@BlunderEveryDamnGame Please show us the game! In the meanwhile: lichess.org/faq#threefold

It's chess! It's literally the rules of chess. It doesn't matter what you intended to do after the third repetition lol!

#1 Looks like 3fold to me:

Aaah, positions, not moves. I always thought it was moves.

> No repetition, just similar moves.

Thank you. Now I understand Pop music.

I mean the lyric repeats and the chords repeat … but not until the verse repeats and the chorus repeats, respectively. There’s definitely repetition; it just tends to occur after some other words and/or notes have been spliced in, interrupting the Æternall Choꝛuſſe. …

So like: Verse ♪ Chorus ♫ Verse ♪ Chorus ♫ … etc. The same words & notes definitely repeat, but not throughout the whole song; just throughout the next *phase* of the song. (Though the phases also repeat — for whatever that’s worth.) …

So in the same way, in chess it’s a threefold repetition *of the position.* Meaning that repetition needn’t occur on back-to-back moves; it just needs to occur, period.

Well! If most people ¹ don’t call delayed repetition “repetition” anymore, then this explains a whole lot. … Now I don’t feel so weird for disliking pop, and listening mostly to Jazz. 😉

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1. Yours is forum post № 100 I have read on this subject in the past year. (Maybe the rules should be more clearly stated? “Threefold repetition of the position,” emphasis on position? I dunno. I’m not a big Pop fan; I’m unsure how to reach y’all — especially when repetition goes unnoticed. …) 🤷‍♂️

The FIDE Laws of Chess are clear:
"9.2 The game is drawn upon a correct claim by the player having the move, when the same
position, for at least the third time (not necessarily by a repetition of moves):
a. is about to appear, if he first writes his move on his scoresheet and declares to the
arbiter his intention to make this move, or
b. has just appeared, and the player claiming the draw has the move.
Positions as in (a) and (b) are considered the same, if the same player has the move,
pieces of the same kind and colour occupy the same squares, and the possible moves of
all the pieces of both players are the same.
Positions are not the same if a pawn that could have been captured en passant can no
longer be captured in this manner. When a king or a rook is forced to move, it will lose its
castling rights, if any, only after it is moved."

Your question may already have an answer in the F.A.Q.

„Threefold repetition
If a position occurs three times, players can claim a draw by threefold repetition. Lichess implements the official FIDE rules, as described in Article 9.2 (d) of the handbook (PDF).

We did not repeat moves. Why was the game still drawn by repetition?
Threefold repetition is about repeated positions, not moves. Repetition does not have to occur consecutively.

We repeated a position three times. Why was the game not drawn?
Repetition needs to be claimed by one of the players. You can do so by pressing the button that is shown, or by offering a draw before your final repeating move, it won't matter if your opponent rejects the draw offer, the threefold repetition draw will be claimed anyway. You can also configure Lichess to automatically claim repetitions for you. Additionally, fivefold repetition always immediately ends the game.“