draw - triple repeat - criteria - bug?!!

@Akbar2thegreat said in #10:
> Now you are wrong!

Deadban was trying to help the OP by giving a simple rule that applies in many cases.
I agree with that rule, as it matches my chess understanding that many 3-fold repetitions fall under the category of consecutive moves, like this one.

Your "improved" rule is just not helpful, as it doesn't cover every scenario out of the given rule.
If I wanted I could find a sequence to make -x and -3x work. Or any other random property.

> Anything to say? Any excuse left?

No offense, I just think you're arguing about something unnecessary.
Hopefully we can get feedback from @newpo about whether the answers helped them or not. My guess is what had to be said has already been said :-)

@pepellou
No, I wasn't helping nor arguing.
Was just telling that better statement with word 'almost' is one I mentioned with example.
I know that not all that's why word 'almost' is used there.
l, l - x, l - 2x (l=last position) is better (slightly) 'almost' statement than
l, l - 2, l - 4 (l=last position)
I never said that my words will ease things out. Just saying.

@Akbar2thegreat said in #12:
> No, I wasn't helping

Agreed.

> nor arguing.

Then maybe try to be more respectful, because IMHO this sounded as if you were trying to pick a fight:

@Akbar2thegreat said in #10:
> Now you are wrong!
> [...]
> Anything to say? Any excuse left?

So I decided not to reply earlier because I found your post aggressive and unprovoked.

Now that Pepe "backed me up" I feel like I need to clarify what I meant in #9.

Keywords here are "almost" and "always".
Your example is possible but I don't think would fall in that category as it is made of two additional (x3) turns which makes the sequence longer and therefore less common.
The most common threefold you can have is when there is only one "normal" turn between one repetition and the other.

Let's see the two cases:

newpo's game repetition is: 54, 56, 58. And only one "normal" turn (x2): 55, 57.

In your example the repetition is: 54, 58, 62. Meaning that there are more than one "normal" turn between one repetition and the other: 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61.

See the difference?

I will never understand why some decent players don't know basic rules.

@pepellou
If my words felt wrong, I apologise as I don't have anything in my mind. I may go off my usual sense while speaking so I accept that.

@Deadban
I apologise for my seemingly aggressive post.
Coming back to your post, I doubt usage of almost and always together though I am no English teacher either!
And why do you think that having 1 move in between of repetions of position is normal and more moves would be abnormal? From where does this theory come? I would like to see source saying so because I have never seen anything like what you were saying, so it seemed as if it was weird or whatsoever.

@Sarg0n said in #15:
> I will never understand why some decent players don't know basic rules.
Are you talking about OP or who?

In addition I will say that your formula probably covers most cases but it doesn't mean it covers the most frequent ones.
Because if x = 10 that game's repetition should be 58, 48, 38 which I don't think occurs very often.
The one that occurs quite often in my experience is always | x | x - 2 | x - 4| where x = last move.

@Deadban said in #18:
> In addition I will say that your formula probably covers most cases but it doesn't mean it covers the most frequent ones.
> Because if x = 10 that game's repetition should be 58, 48, 38 which I don't think occurs very often.
> The one that occurs quite often in my experience is always | x | x - 2 | x - 4| where x = last move.

Indeed, certainly >90%.

@Deadban
You didn't say 'most frequent' previously which is very crucial term in this case. You should have said that before and it would have been much clear and wouldn't require my seemingly provoking comment. Don't forget that one word is enough to destroy meanings.
One thing to note is that my formula l, l-x, l-2x (where l is last position) also covers 'most frequent' l, l-2, l-4 (where x=2) apart from less frequent ones.