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Bug: cannot offer draw

I played in swiss tournament today and in last three games noticed strange bug: I cannot offer draw before move 30, draw button simple inactive! After move 30 draw button work as always. I look to tournament creation form, there is still no way to forbid draw offers.
Something changed on Lichess?
@bufferunderrun said in #2:
> It's a feature:

This feature is unnecessary and harmful in itself, but especially harmful when the players are unaware of it.
When someone wants to play not chess, but some game based on chess, he chooses the appropriate tournament. Here, thousands of players are forced to play 30 moves according to anti-chess rules. Moreover, they can find out about this only at the moment when they discover that the chess rules in their game do not work.

If a small group of players wants to play exactly according to anti-chess rules, without the possibility of offering a draw, add this option to the settings when creating a tournament, where the organizer can set a password or select rating restrictions. Players will be informed that it is impossible to offer a draw, and those who want to play by chess rules will be able to simply ignore the tournament with anti-chess rules.
Regarding "anti-chess" rules, I hope you are aware that FIDE laws of chess allow this, right?

>9.1.1
>The regulations of an event may specify that players cannot offer or agree to a draw, whether in less than a specified number of moves or at all, without the consent of the arbiter.

handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018

But sure, this should be added to the Swiss FAQ.
@bufferunderrun said in #5:
> Regarding "anti-chess" rules, I hope you are aware that FIDE laws of chess allow this, right?
> But sure, this should be added to the Swiss FAQ.

The current FIDE rules are commercialized and far from the ideal of fair play, but even they allow the organizers of a particular competition to limit the offers of draws - rather than prohibit all players from offering draws. The difference is huge.
In addition, if really try to comply with the rules of FIDE, why not forbid, for example, premoves?

Any restrictions that prevent two players from independently determining the result of the game at the board - are anti-chess. For many years of my chess career, I have never played in a tournament with anti-chess rules. And I'm not going to do it in future - fortunately, in offline restrictions on draws are still optional. Those who do not like to play in tournaments according to anti-chess rules - they play in normal tournaments.

If Lichess has firmly decided to apply the anti-chess rule to all Swiss tournaments, it is simply disrespectful to all strong players. Something like: "in tournaments, you play too skillfully and judiciously, so we decided to force you to play meaningless and nervous games with unpredictable results against your will."
If ones play is so skillful, the game that is a draw before move 30 will still be a draw after move 30.
You can also argue that a three move draw is "anti-chess".
My two pawns anyway.
Tournaments among humans are played for the sake of a tournament results, not to definitely finish each game to the checkmate or naked kings. If at the end of the tournament one opponent is satisfied with a draw according to his tournament position, and another opponent is also satisfied with it, then a draw of 3, 5 or 10 moves is the most logical conclusion of their game, because their tournament tasks have already been completed. And a long, hard and senseless struggle in which someone will finally makes a mistake and thereby devalues all his good results in previous rounds - is an absurd, illogical conclusion of game.
The opinion of third parties should not be taken into account here. These third parties are neither participants nor victims on any side - let them not offer a draw in their games and do not agree.

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